Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law Leave a comment on Race hate hoaxer Jussie Smollett gets appeal bail
In December, American actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty by a jury of falsely reporting a hate crime against himself.
He claimed two racist Trump supporters wearing MAGA hats beat him up. It turned out he had paid two Nigerian brothers to stage the whole thing so that he could pretend to be a victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Liberty 2 Comments on Public Trustee of Queensland investigated for high fees and financial mismanagement
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
The Public Trustee of Queensland is a public body charged with managing the finances of some of the most vulnerable members of the community, including those lacking capacity and prisoners.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 6 Comments on Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail for fake hate crime hoax
Last year, American actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty by a jury of faking a hate crime against himself.
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Author adminPosted on Categories civil litigation 4 Comments on District Court stays claim because of Australian Financial Complaints Authority’s bureaucratic bumbling
Westpac’s social responsibility department reacts to the banking Royal Commission.
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
President Ronald Reagan, AUGUST 12, 1986
It is well known that many public bodies these days are obsessed with political correctness and identity politics, and spend a lot of their time fussing on topics such as equity, diversity, inclusion, harmony days, ‘unconscious bias’, and the like. Once can only imagine that they hold regular meetings where they talk about topics such as their gender pronouns, paleo pear and banana bread, and what a relief that in a few months time the Morrison federal government will be replaced by a Labor-Greens Coalition, but how the ideal would be a Greens Government with Adam Bandt as Prime Minister and socialism being tried once again.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 4 Comments on Jarryd Hayne’s convictions quashed on appeal
This blog reported when Rugby league star Jarryd Hayne was found guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
Hayne had pleaded not guilty and denied sexually assaulting the then 26-year-old woman at her home at Fletcher, on Newcastle’s outskirts, in September 2018.
His first trial in Newcastle last year ended in a hung jury, however the jury in his second trial found him guilty of performing oral and digital sex on the complainant without her consent.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 2 Comments on Indictable offences dealt with in the Magistrates Court of Queensland
Generally, indictable offences in Queensland are dealt with by the District or Supreme Courts, as they are usually serious offences. However, in some cases, indictable offences can or must be dealt with in the Magistrates Court.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 5 Comments on Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of sex trafficking
Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of sex trafficking after a New York jury deliberated for more than five days.
Maxwell was accused of recruiting and grooming four teenagers for Epstein between 1994 and 2004. Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan jail cell as he awaited trial on sex abuse charges of his own.
Maxwell was found guilty by a 12-person jury of five of the six counts she was facing.
“A unanimous jury has found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of one of the worst crimes imaginable — facilitating and participating in the sexual abuse of children,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement following the verdict. “I want to commend the bravery of the girls — now grown women — who stepped out of the shadows and into the courtroom. Their courage and willingness to face their abuser made this case, and today’s result, possible.”
She could potentially spend the rest of her life behind bars.
Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 7 Comments on Jussie Smollett found guilty of fake race hate crime hoax
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American actor Jussie Smollett has been found guilty by a jury of faking a hate crime against himself.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law, Legal profession, Professional discipline 1 Comment on Ipswich lawyer Cameron McKenzie struck off for extortion
Cameron McKenzie has been removed from the roll of lawyers after his conviction for extortion.
Extortion
In 15 January 2017, then Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale had a number of telephone calls with the complainant Xin Li falsely purporting to be a private investigator and demanding that the complainant pay a sum of money to Yutian Li, a woman the complainant had had a relationship with. Pisasale threatened to cause detriment to the complainant, including by having him subjected to court proceedings, being sued for $200,000, incurring costs of $20,000 in court, being subjected to the adverse publicity of court proceedings and being summoned to go to court.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Defamation 2 Comments on Peter Dutton wins defamation case
On 25 February 2021 at 11.51 pm, refugee activist Shane Bazzi published a tweet on Twitter containing the words:
“Peter Dutton is a rape apologist.”
This tweet contained a link to an article published online in The Guardian Newspaper on 20 June 2019. The link in that tweet showed a large photograph of Mr Dutton, the name “The Guardian” and the following words:
“Peter Dutton says women using rape and abortion claims as ploy to ge…
Home Affairs minister says ‘some people are trying it on’ in an attempt to get to Australia from refugee centres on Nauru.”
The first of these lines comprised part of the headline to The Guardian article. The second constituted the whole of the first sentence in the article.
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