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Coalition for Safer Communities will be holding a rally on the steps of Parliament House Melbourne on Tuesday,10th August starting at 12 noon, to voice the communities concern about violence in our Community and the Leniency of our Courts when it comes to punishing offenders.
Pithouse nod to associate
WRONG-way Magistrate Richard Pithouse cleared the way for a disgraced barrister colleague to get his gun licence back - a move that has worried the barrister's former wife.
And the potential conflict of interest in Mr Pithouse presiding over an earlier hearing involving the barrister colleague prompted one court onlooker to make a complaint to the Chief Magistrate about Mr Pithouse.
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Suppression orders a contempt for jurors
THERE is only one way to prevent suppression orders from being abused: retrain the judges.
The application of judicial discretion is the basis for suppression orders. And the Farquharson case shows judicial discretion needs a far more rigorous foundation.
This case has so skewed the law on suppression orders that the only way forward is to alter the judicial mindset.
The case has given Australia a legal ...
Scottish smack-attack accused to face Australian court
Source The Age A Scottish man accused of indecently assaulting a Melbourne teenager five years ago will be extradited to Australia after the Scottish government this week signed off on the request.
But James O'Brien McCulloch claims he is being used as a political pawn by authorities, after Victoria Police was criticised in the media last year for not pursuing his extradition in part because of ...
Indian cabbie sentenced for sexually assaulting teenager in Australia
MELBOURNE: A 34-year old Indian cabbie was on Tuesday handed out a suspended jail term of 10-months on charges of sexually assaulting a drunken teenager in Australia last year.
A Brisbane district court today heard that Indian driver Harmeet Singh sexually assaulted the 18-year-old after picking her up in his taxi from Brisbane's Fortitude Valley in the early hours of November 14 last year.
Singh ...
Family says Richard Pithouse admitted his failure
Herald Sun A CONTROVERSIAL magistrate is again under attack over his treatment of crime victims - but this time for his work as a solicitor before he was appointed to the bench.
A man who paid Richard Pithouse to represent his family in a crimes compensation application said he had been "totally let down".
Denis Foster, of Coleraine, gave the Herald Sun a letter of apology ...