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How does a jury decide whether or not someone is guilty? It’s a huge question. How can 12 strangers determine the outcome of someone’s case, and how their life will look?  Ultimately in each case...

Let’s face it, this pandemic has been tough on many – and working parents are no exception!  At Criminal Law Mums we know that parenting in 2020 has been beyond challenging. The pressure to somehow...

It’s hard enough balancing work and parenthood at the best of times. So how do we do it during a global pandemic? At Criminal Law Mums we don’t pretend to have the answers. In fact, we’re not even...

What would you do if you were arrested and taken into police custody? Few of us have stopped to consider this scenario apart from to hope it never happens. But at Gallant Law, we believe that...

At first glance, there seems to be something inherently heroic about the power to issue a citizen's arrest. A citizen’s arrest allows any one of us to arrest a person we find committing an offence...

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: being arrested is hugely stressful. At Gallant Law we firmly believe that everyone who comes into contact with the legal system should be treated fairly,...

The recent introduction of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Police and other matters) Bill 2019 has granted police wide and expansive powers to conduct DNA testing – including the power to take a...