If police want to speak to you, or you have been arrested, or have been arrested and charged, then you need advice from experienced criminal lawyers. The Dowson Turco Crime Team acts across the spectrum of crime, from serious and complex indictable matters down to summary matters in the Local Court. Our experience The Dowson […]
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Coercive control law reform in NSW On November 16, 2022, the New South Wales Parliament passed laws to create a stand-alone offence of coercive control, making NSW the first Australian state to do so. Coercive control is a form of domestic abuse in which a person engages in patterns of behaviour that infringe on the
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Sexual Consent Law Reform in New South Wales The laws surrounding sexual assault have changed in New South Wales. Previously, a person engaging in a sexual act was not required to ensure the person they were having sex with gave affirmative consent (that is, consent by express action or words). New consent laws have been
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While it can be daunting to consider your death, it is an inevitable fact of life. At DTL, it is our view that there is no better time than the present to ensure that you are taking the first practical step to making a Will and preparing other related estate documents, such as Powers of
Over the last 10 years, the laws regulating drink driving in NSW have changed to incorporate the Alcohol Interlock Program, and to prohibit drug driving, and a combination of drink driving and drug driving. Most drink driving offences in NSW are subject to the Alcohol Interlock Program. The Alcohol Interlock Program requires a court to
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Since the Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 (NSW) came into force in March of 2021, replacing the Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990 (NSW) (often referred to because of section 32 of that Act), we have acted for a number of clients who fall within the scope of the new legislation,
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When do transgender children need to go to court to get treatment? The case of Re Imogen In 2020, the Family Court of Australia (as it then was) heard an application by a mother of a child regarding the child’s wish to seek stage 2 hormone treatment for physical feminisation. The case is known as
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Since 2020, Dowson Turco Lawyers has acted against Facebook / Meta in claims for reactivation of clients’ Facebook accounts. These claims have arisen because clients have been either hacked or otherwise affected by the Facebook algorithm, triggering deactivation of their accounts and ostensibly no way to reactivation through Facebook’s client facing systems. Dowson Turco has
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In New South Wales, many people appearing in the Local Court for a minor or less serious offence (such as drug possession, some low range drink driving and drug driving offences, etc) will ask their lawyer to obtain a “section 10”. What they are referring to is section 10 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (the Act)
Let’s face it, in a world of free-flowing data, every business, large and small, is vulnerable to a data breach. But with huge penalties on the cards, can you afford even a minor breach? Section 80W of the Privacy Act 1988 empowers the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to apply to the Federal Court
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