Have you been charged with a public order offence?
We can help you.
We can help you if you have been charged with public order offences.
Public Order offences are generally charges where there is a disturbance in a public area. This includes offences such as affray , indecent language and violent disorder.
The type of questions that are important in offences such as these are;
- Who did what?
- What level of danger was posed to victims?
- What was the motivation for the offence?
- If you are pleading guilty how do we put the offending in a context that makes a Judge understand it.
Public order charges
- Affray
- Arson
- Arson Causing Death
- Assaulting or Resisting Police
- Allow Dog or Cat To Be a Nuisance
- Being Disguised with Unlawful Intent
- Blackmail
- Carry Out Plumbing Work Without Licence or Registration
- Carry Out Work Without a Building Permit
- Collecting or Making Documents Likely to Facilitate Terrorist Acts
- Conspiracy
- Contaminating Goods Causing Public Alarm or Economic Loss
- Contempt of Court
- Dangerous Goods on Aircraft
- Dangerous Non-guard Dog Attacks or Bites a Person or Animal – Person in Control
- Delay Entry of Police
- Destroy, Damage or in Any Way Interfere With Any Works of a Water Corporation
- Destroying or Damaging Property
- Destruction of Evidence
- Directing the Activities of a Terrorist Organisation
- Discharge Missile to Endanger Person or Property
- Disturbing Religious Worship
- Driving a Motor Vehicle When Directed to Stop by Police
- Dog Found at Large Between Sunrise and Sunset
- Dog Rushes at Person – Person in Control
- Enter Casino While Subject to an Exclusion Order
- Entering a Place Without Authority or Lawful Excuse
- Endangering Safe Operation of an Aircraft
- Endangering Safety of Aircraft
- Entering a Level Crossing When a Train or Tram is Approaching
- Escaping From Lawful Custody
- Fail to Apply to Register a Dog or Cat
- Fail to Comply With an Improvement Notice
- Fail to Comply With Emergency Order or Building Order
- Fail to Comply With Fire Prevention Notice
- Fail to Comply With Planning Scheme, Permit or Agreement Under s173
- Fail to Restrain Dangerous Dog Off the Owner’s Premises
- Failure to Vote at Any Election Without a Valid and Sufficient Excuse
- Fishing Closures – Contravene a Prohibition
- Intentionally or Recklessly Causing a Bushfire
- Interfere with Corpse of a Human Being
- Leave Child Without Supervision or Care
- Lighting of Fires in the Open Air
- Loitering With Intent to Commit an Indictable Offence
- Making False Reports to Police etc.
- Non-dangerous Dog Attacks
- Obscene, Indecent, Threatening Language and Behaviour in Public
- Obstruction of Commonwealth Public Officials
- Occupier Land Contravenes Planning Scheme
- Offence to Harass Witnesses etc.
- Offences Against Court Security
- Offences Connected with Explosive Substances
- Owner Land Fails to Comply With Any Planning Scheme
- Perjury
- Person Who is Not a Licensee Sell Liquor or Offer Liquor for Sale
- Possess More Fish Than the Catch Limit
- Possess More Than Twice Catch Limit of Abalone
- Possessing Housebreaking Implements
- Posting Bills and Defacing Property
- Public Nuisance
- Refuse or Fail to State Name and Address
- Resisting Arrest
- Rioters Demolishing Buildings
- Sabotage
- Setting Fire to Aircraft
- Setting Traps to Kill
- Solicit for Prostitution in Public Place
- State False Address When Requested
- State False Name When Requested
- Supply Liquor in Breach of Licence
- Threatening Injury to Prevent Arrest
- Threatening to Contaminate Goods
- Threats to Sabotage
- Threats to Safety of Aircraft
- Unlawful Assembly
- Unlawful Oaths to Commit Treason, Murder etc.
- Unlawfully Take, Use or Divert Water
- Use or Possess Abalone Equipment to Exceed More Than Twice Catch Limit
- Violent Disorder
Latest Public Order Case Studies
Diversion for Shining Laser at Police Helicopter
This is a case study on a sentence of Diversion for a laser pointer offence in Victoria, involving unlawful assault of two police officers with a weapon and possession of a prohibited weapon. What is alleged to have occurred? Fed up with the constant noise of trucks and aircraft around …
Making False Statements to Police – Charge Withdrawn
This is a case study on making false statements to police resulting in a withdrawal of the charge. The circumstances of the offending started with a road rage incident involving our client when they went to the police station to make a report of what happened. What is alleged to …
Make a False Bomb Threat – Diversion
This is a case study on a charge of make a false bomb threat resulting in a diversion program. What is alleged to have occurred? Our client was a 19-year-old apprentice who was charged with one count of make a false bomb threat after posting on a Twitter (now “X’) …
