Evidence in Family Violence Intervention Orders In criminal law proceedings, complex rules of evidence can be the cause of lengthy legal argument. In contrast, in contested Family Violence Intervention Order Applications, Section 65 of the Family Violence Protect Act (‘the...
Written by Isabelle Skaburskis, Lawyer, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers Criminal law gives the government power to take away people’s liberty. It is also meant to curb and constrain this power. The power to detain in a liberal society is...
The article The role Victoria police play once a phone call is made about domestic violence is written by Kate Da Costa, Senior Associate, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. Kate is one of our senior associates and is part of...
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. Last Friday, a terrible incident occurred in our city and like everyone else who heard and saw it all unfold, it is hard to be unmoved by the tragic event. As...
Written by Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. On 18 March 2016 I heard Rob Franklin, Managing Director of Potts Lawyers, give a lecture on ethics as part of the 2016 ADLA conference. In addition to being Managing Director at Potts...
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. In “news” over the last 24 hours, the Herald Sun posted an article in which it is alleged that Victoria’s “Top Prosecutor” has called for urgent legal reforms as figures show...
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. We have been appearing at a large number of the case studies involved in this Royal Commission. This Royal Commission has been a fascinating, sometimes truly terrible, insight into both humanity...
Written by Bill Doogue.Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. There has been some struggle to get to the essence of what will happen with baseline offences, since the introduction of the amended Sentencing Amendment (Baseline Sentences) Bill 2014 in April last year....
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. Some of you may have long enough memories to remember Claytons, a non-alcoholic whiskey advertised with the tag; The drink you have when you are not having a drink. Some of...
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. The Victoria Legal Aid “VLA” consultation on criminal trials is an interesting document. It is hard to fault most of what it puts forward. From my perspective, the consultation can...
