Recent Cases

This week Astor Legal were successful in having sexual assault charges dropped after negotiations with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Our client is a 21-year-old apprentice plumber who lived at home with his parents. He had gone to the same high school as a female who he met on a night out. The pair […]

Our client is a 20-year-old international rugby player. He was playing first grade in Australia and had recently received an offer to play professionally in France. On the day of the incident he was driving a friend to Darling Harbour in Sydney. While attempting to make a right turn, a pedestrian ran in front of […]

Our Client is a 58-year-old man from Sydney. He was contacted by Police in relation to a complaint that was made of sexual abuse 40 years ago. He was subsequently arrested on allegations of child sexual assault and indecent assault charges. He contacted us as he was walking to the Police station. We immediately got […]

Last week Astor Legal appeared at Sydney District Court on behalf of a client charged with a number of domestic violence charges. Originally he had been charged with Intentionally Choke, Common Assault, Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm and Stalk/Intimidate. In total there were six charges. We entered pleas of ‘not guilty’ to four of the […]

Last week Astor Legal appeared at Liverpool Local Court in relation to a bail application. Our client had initially been charged with Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm and Intimidation. He was granted bail by police. Shortly afterwards he was charged with contravene AVO. A few weeks later he was charged with another breach AVO offence […]

Our client was a 22-year-old who was on parole for domestic violence offences. On the day of the incident he had arranged to collect his belongings from the complainant’s residence. Unfortunately, when he attended the premises, the complainant reneged on the agreement. An argument took place and our client left without his belongings. Unbeknownst to […]

Our client is a 32-year-old man from America living with his husband in Australia. Police were called to their house after a complaint was made by their neighbours who suspected a domestic incident. Our client and his partner explained to police that our client had recently had major surgery following a motor vehicle accident and […]

Our client is 38 year old man who was born in New Zealand. He had struggled throughout his life with mental health issues. He had a lengthy criminal history for fraud offences. Indeed, he had previously spent a number of years in jail for fraud offences. We previously represented him in a District Court Trial […]

Last week Astor Legal appeared at Fairfield Local Court in relation to a detention application. Our client was on a 2 year Intensive Corrections Order (ICO) for a number of serious drug charges and property offences. When he was 3 months into the order he was charged with further drug offences. At that time, we […]

Our client was a 47-year-old senior financial analyst working for one of the ‘big four’ banks. He had been married to his wife for over fifteen years and the pair had two children together. Ten years ago our client pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges which were dealt with by way of a Section 10 […]