Recent Cases

Our client is a young doctor who was caught with an 0.08 blood alcohol reading after being stopped for a random breath test. He was subsequently charged with driving with mid-range PCA. In the Local Court he instructed another firm to appear for him. He was convicted and given six month disqualification at Downing Centre […]

Our client is a tradesman who was charged with negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm. His primary mode of transportation is a work ute. Police alleged that our client was reversing their ute in the carpark of a shopping centre in the Northern Beaches. A 71-year-old lady was walking in the carpark to the rear […]

Our client was a 28-year-old IT professional from western Sydney. Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers executed a search warrant on both his place of employment and his home and seized a number of computers, laptops and hard drives. Initially he was charged with possess child abuse material in respect of over 3,000 image and video […]

Our client was a 63-year-old small business owner who had been married for over 30 years. Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers executed a search warrant on his home and seized a number of computers, laptops, hard drives and an iPad. Following a forensic examination AFP officers discovered that the devices had contained approximately 100 child […]

Our client is a 28-year-old software engineer living with her partner. Police were called to their house after the partner called 000 and alleged he had been slapped. When police attended, the partner told officers that our client was intoxicated and had got into an argument with him. In the course of this argument it […]

Astor Legal recently appeared at Wollongong Court on behalf of a client who had breached a good behaviour licence with four speeding offences. Our client was a single mother and primary carer of two young children. She also worked full-time as a HR professional. Her traffic record was not good. She had accumulated a number […]

Recently Astor Legal appeared at Downing Centre Local Court in relation to an application to vary bail. Our client was charged with sexual assault after a tinder date. Prior to police arresting him, our client flew and had to be extradited back to Sydney. You can read about that successful bail application here. A few […]

Recently Astor Legal appeared at Sydney District Court on behalf of a client who had pleaded guilty to a number of domestic violence charges. He was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault and stalk/intimidate. The facts set out that our client was in Yamba with his wife and child on a holiday. […]

Recently Astor Legal appeared at Downing Centre Local Court in relation to a bail application. Our client was charged with sexual intercourse without consent after a tinder date. Prior to police arresting him, our client flew to another jurisdiction to meet his sister. Police were unable to locate him and released a statement to the […]

Our clients co-owned a business selling furniture on Amazon. They had received fines for company vehicles in which they had failed to nominate the driver of the vehicle. The company then received court attendance notices for ‘Fail to Nominate Driver’. They found this out after realising that they had forgotten to update their company address […]