When your son’s charged with raping a man’s daughter you think you’d watch...
The Supreme Court released the sentencing of Dennis Bloomfield after a houso on houso punch up on Twamley Crescent Richardson last year. In February 2011 two Richardson families (Coghlan and...
View ArticleReasons not to share your porn with blokes you met in the Calwell Club
The human theatre of the Supreme Court continues with the sentencing of Matthew Hood and Matthew Burge: The aggravated robbery was committed in February this year. Mr Burge and Mr Hood had been to the...
View ArticleKurt Drayton back on the streets in 2015
Another tale of a sad wasted life from the Supreme Court. This time it’s one Kurt Drayton long of drug use, and burglary convictions this time up on a slew of charges including arson. Justice Burns has...
View ArticleActing Justice Nield dishes out more punishment.
On Tuesday May 14 Mark Anthony Munro,aged 52 years was sentenced by Acting Justice Nield, in the Supreme Court on charges of aggravated robbery and intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm.Munro...
View ArticleMental illness and offending. Spot the difference?
Can anyone spot the difference between these two media reports? Canberra Times and ABC. I was wondering why Justice Higgins was sending someone to prison who has Bipolar, and I think I have the answer....
View ArticleSimon ups the plea bargain ante
Simon Corbell has announced changes to sentencing in the ACT’s courts to encourage cooperation from our crims: Sentencing courts will be able to impose a lower sentence where offenders assist the...
View ArticleHe’ll be telling his mates in Indonesia about Justice Higgins alright
The ACT Supreme Court has been called on to sentence a people smuggler, one Toni Kaubulan. A suspended sentence and a good behaviour order with the threat of a $500 fine will no doubt have the folks...
View ArticleMarko Ljubic gets a $750 fine for a small cocaine possession charge
Given how many readers will have had small amounts of cocaine and MDMA on them for a big night out it is definitely worth having a look at the sentencing of the unfortunate Marko Ljubic caught with 8...
View ArticleLower penalties for early pleaders
Simon Corbell has announced his plans for enhanced early pleading: Courts will be able to impose lower sentences where offenders cooperate to ensure trials are focused on the real issues in dispute,...
View ArticleKing hit outcome lets Canberra down again
3 months weekend detention is disgraceful. [Canberra Times story] Hopefully the offender doesn’t go and he ends up serving his time out in full at the AMC
View ArticlePoor privileged Pete
The former Parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper has managed to avoid the Go-Slow (as an ex-lawyer who worked with me as producer used to refer to the House of Correction). He’d spent a bit of time...
View ArticleActing Justice Nield dishes out more punishment.
On Tuesday May 14 Mark Anthony Munro,aged 52 years was sentenced by Acting Justice Nield, in the Supreme Court on charges of aggravated robbery and intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm.Munro...
View ArticleMental illness and offending. Spot the difference?
Can anyone spot the difference between these two media reports? Canberra Times and ABC. I was wondering why Justice Higgins was sending someone to prison who has Bipolar, and I think I have the answer. IP
View ArticleSimon ups the plea bargain ante
Simon Corbell has announced changes to sentencing in the ACT’s courts to encourage cooperation from our crims: Sentencing courts will be able to impose a lower sentence where offenders assist the...
View ArticleHe’ll be telling his mates in Indonesia about Justice Higgins alright
The ACT Supreme Court has been called on to sentence a people smuggler, one Toni Kaubulan. A suspended sentence and a good behaviour order with the threat of a $500 fine will no doubt have the folks...
View ArticleMarko Ljubic gets a $750 fine for a small cocaine possession charge
Given how many readers will have had small amounts of cocaine and MDMA on them for a big night out it is definitely worth having a look at the sentencing of the unfortunate Marko Ljubic caught with 8...
View ArticleLower penalties for early pleaders
Simon Corbell has announced his plans for enhanced early pleading: Courts will be able to impose lower sentences where offenders cooperate to ensure trials are focused on the real issues in dispute,...
View ArticleKing hit outcome lets Canberra down again
3 months weekend detention is disgraceful. [Canberra Times story] Hopefully the offender doesn’t go and he ends up serving his time out in full at the AMC
View ArticlePoor privileged Pete
The former Parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper has managed to avoid the Go-Slow (as an ex-lawyer who worked with me as producer used to refer to the House of Correction). He’d spent a bit of time...
View ArticleInmates are in prison for a reason
Prison reform has returned to Canberra and we are advised indigenous detainees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre has risen to 27 percent of our prison population – up from an average of about 18...
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