His Honour Magistrate Sinclair handed down a decision last week that one of our client’s had no case to answer on a charge of obstructing police. The case should never have gone to trial. Rather the Prosecution should have pulled the charge as soon as it had seen the evidence. In this case, His Honour [...]

In the Magistrates Court of Southport, our client Mr Joel Helmore had his charges of Serious Assault Police and Commit Public Nuisance dismissed, following a finding that he had been unlawfully arrested and therefore was falsely imprisoned. The incident occurred at Southport outside Melbas Nightclub. The evidence showed that that Mr Helmore was not committing [...]

At the Maroochydore Magistrates Court on 7 July 2017, the Court ruled that the arrest of our client Ivan Bortic was unlawful, due to the fact that the arresting police officer had failed to afford the mandatory safeguard warnings under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act (PPRA). Earlier media reporting that Mr Bortic was avoiding an RBT [...]

If you have been charged with an offence of failing to stop, under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act section 754 (2) Fail to Stop Motor Vehicle, or given a notice under s 755 of the PPRA to identify the driver, you may have a good defence if you can establish on the balance of [...]

Woman charged with perjury after giving evidence at trial of man she claimed sexually assaulted her http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/crime-and-justice/woman-charged-with-perjury-after-giving-evidence-at-trial-of-man-she-claimed-sexually-assaulted-her/news-story/d77d25cae6c6eee6c3e61c62611ef3e9

The serious criminal law charge of drug trafficking is these days far too quickly proffered against offenders in places like Southport and indeed elsewhere, when in previous years the criminal law offence of supplying drugs would have been preferred. The spirit of the legislature would not have been in my view to brand low level [...]

The authorities that guide a District Court Judge in Brisbane to deal with the criminal law offence under s 352(1) of the Criminal Code of Indecent Assault when committed by a masseuse should be used to guide the range of sentencing. Recently the District Court in its criminal law jurisdiction in Brisbane dealt with the [...]

In the Magistrates Court at Brisbane, like any other Magistrates Court, serious offences like Burglary and commit indictable offence under section 419(4) of the Criminal Code Queensland and Possessing dangerous Drugs under s 9 of the Drugs Misuse Act Queensland can easily result in jail time. The fact that the matter is at the Brisbane [...]

Justin Sibley Brisbane Crime Lawyer and Williamson and Associates Lawyers Brisbane successfully defended an innocent man put on trial for assault occasioning bodily harm in Brisbane in circumstances where the police prosecutor should never have proceeded. Police were called to a supposed ‘one punch scenario’ where a male had been rendered unconscious in Brisbane City [...]

Many cases of assault involve a he said she said version of events, and defending criminal assault charges at Southport Court is no different. In criminal assault cases, there are usually three sides to the story, the victim’s, the defendant’s and the truth being the third. It is often the case that what starts as [...]