Recent Cases

Astor Legal last week appeared at Young Local Court to represent a client who was facing serious fraud charges totalling approximately $600,000. Our client was a bank employee at the time of the offences. In the course of her job she committed a number of fraudulent transactions between 2013 and 2016. Throughout the three years […]

Astor Legal recently appeared at Hornsby Local Court on behalf of our client who was employed as a truck driver. Three years ago he had been disqualified from driving for 6 months after he was convicted of an offence of ‘Drive Under the Influence‘. At the time he had been represented by another law firm. […]

Last week Astor Legal appeared at Blacktown Local Court in relation to 14 charges of Drug Supply, Proceeds of Crime and Possess Housebreaking Implements. On the day of the incident, our client was seated in his vehicle in a carpark. He was approached by an old acquaintance who started a conversation. A short time later […]

Last week Astor Legal appeared at Toronto Local Court on behalf of a client charged with serious fraud offences. Our client was known to Police they had previously charged him with fraud offences. At the time of these offences he was on bail. Police alleged that our client had set up an ‘Airtasker’ account and […]

Last week Astor Legal appeared at Manly Local Court on behalf of a 34-year-old doctor. Our client worked in a well-known hospital. A number of nurses had made complaints to the hospital’s human resources department that he had touched their private parts during work hours. Following the incident our client was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder […]

Our client is a 41-year-old single mother who works as a carer for the elderly. She came to Australia over 8 years ago and shortly afterwards became an Australian citizen. At the time she was driving on an international licence. Regrettably, she was not aware that within 3 months of becoming a permanent resident or […]

Our client was an elderly truck driver who had been charged with Dangerous Driving. Another law firm appeared in the Local Court where our client was convicted and given a 12 month driver licence disqualification. He was mortified by this as he would have been unable to continue working. He came to us desperate. We […]

Astor Legal recently appeared at Liverpool Local Court in relation to serious drug charges. Our client was a 19-year-old university student studying a Bachelor of Psychology and Bachelor of Business. At the time he was working as an apprentice to earn some money and assist his family with their expenses. On the day of the […]

Astor Legal appeared at Nyngan Local Court for a 37-year-old livestock manager who lived in rural Victoria. As part of his job he was required to travel to farms throughout both regional NSW and Victoria. Often he would need to stay overnight. On one such occasion, he consumed 10 standard drinks in the form of […]

Our client is a 35-year-old father living in Zetland with his pregnant wife and 7-year-old child. He had recently completed a university degree in project management and was searching for work. Prior to finding a job he was charged with stalk/intimidate and destroy/damage property over an incident in the family home. Police alleged that our […]