"The Law is a Ass - a Idiot"

[Whiskers]

How is this for lunacy, this happened in Adelaide a few days ago.

A mate of mine who is a gyprock installer was working with others on building site when a group of kids on mini bikes ride up the street, then turn around and ride back, this time with handfulls of gravel that they throw at the builders vehicles as they ride past.
A carpenter happens to be having his lunch in his ute when his vehicle gets hit too so he drops his lunch and takes off after these kids.

They come to a roundabout and one of them hits the kerb and both the rider and the passenger go flying across the road. The others escape but the chippy keeps these two there until police etc arrive.

The outcome is that the parents are now suing the chippy for injuries caused to their precious little offspring even though they are under age, were not licenced and were riding unregistered bikes on a public road without helmets and they hit the kerb in an attempt to escape.

All the people who witnessed it are now being called to give evidence on behalf of the chippy.

I reckon they should sue the parents for stupidity.

Didn't the police fine the kids or at least give them an official warning?

 

[Boggo]

Didn't the police fine the kids or at least give them an official warning?

Nobody seems to know what is happening with them !

 

[Whiskers]

Nobody seems to know what is happening with them !

Tell your mate, that if he actually gets served with a lawsuit, to lodge a countersuit asap for stone chip damage, destruction of property, harassment, trauma (from fear of eye, or other personal injury during the attack) etc.

I've found a well structured and worded countersuit (or threat thereof if they send a threatening solicitors letter) will often send them packing or at least substantially mitigate ones losses if it goes to court.

My mother has had similar issues with kids on push bikes (drugie parents can't afford motorised bikes) throwing stuff, damaging garden etc. She put up a high wire fence on one side, but they started climbing over it, until I laced some hi tensile barb wire along it and more people complained more often to the police.

Serve it back to the little terds and their inconsiderate and apparently $h!tful parents, with interest!

 

[Calliope]

It's about time the Queensland Government did a reality check and dropped this costly and futile pursuit of Jayant Patel. Enough's enough.

A JURY has been unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the trial of Jayant Patel, who was accused of maiming his patient Ian Rodney Vowles.

The former Bundaberg Hospital surgeon, 63, pleaded not guilty at the opening of a two-week re-trial in the Brisbane District Court last month in which he was accused of causing grievous bodily harm to Mr Vowles.

Judge Terry Martin QC discharged the jury six men and six women at 12.50pm.

It came after the jury sent him a fourth note to say it was unable to reach a decision.

Judge Martin asked the jury if it could reach a majority verdict with 11 jurors instead of 12 but the jury indicated it could not.

He said the jury indicated as early as Friday it could not reach a decision.

The case will be listed for mention again on October 25.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...eon-jayant-patel/story-fnii5v70-1226740292820

 

[Julia]

It's about time the Queensland Government did a reality check and dropped this costly and futile pursuit of Jayant Patel. Enough's enough.

If you were the patient whom Patel consigned to a lifetime of a colostomy, when it was completely unnecessary, you might feel somewhat differently.

 

[Calliope]

i know revenge is sweet, but in this case it's not going to happen. It's time to put the crime-fighting money saved into further pursuit of criminal gangs. I don't think Patel is a further threat to us, locking him up would achieve nothing. With gang members it would at least disrupt their criminal activities for a while.

 

[MrBurns]

i know revenge is sweet, but in this case it's not going to happen. It's time to put the crime-fighting money saved into further pursuit of criminal gangs. I don't think Patel is a further threat to us, locking him up would achieve nothing. With gang members it would at least disrupt their criminal activities for a while.

The law has to deal with this but the horrific cost shows that things must change to fast track a result.
The cost of this is probably mind boggling.

 

[Julia]

i know revenge is sweet, but in this case it's not going to happen.

There is a clear difference between revenge and justice. Patel caused major damage to many people, death in some cases. The State should not walk away from seeing him brought to account for this, no matter the cost or the time involved.

It's time to put the crime-fighting money saved into further pursuit of criminal gangs.

They are two entirely separate matters.

I don't think Patel is a further threat to us, locking him up would achieve nothing. With gang members it would at least disrupt their criminal activities for a while.

It's not about him being an ongoing threat. I cannot imagine anyone is going to employ him after this.
It's about being accountable for gross misuse of his trusted position as a doctor.

 

[CanOz]

Its also about sending a message, no?

I can't believe anyone would think this is a waste of money. This guy clearly caused some serious harm to people....

 

[Calliope]

Its also about sending a message, no?

I can't believe anyone would think this is a waste of money. This guy clearly caused some serious harm to people....

Indeed it is! And the message so far is that the DPP is incapable of convincing a jury that an obviously guilty man (who has been tagged by the media as Dr Death) should be incarcerated for his obvious criminal negligence and incompetence.

Prior to the recent trial the bill had reached $3.3 million. There is only so much money in the pot. Obviously other criminal prosecutions have been given inadequate resources.

But, Mr Moynihan's staff believed "it was a "fait accompli" that all charges would proceed to trial
"There is no doubt he (the DPP) will proceed with the lot of them," one prosecutor said. "Of course he will."

But criminal law specialist Bill Potts said pursuing further charges was "a waste of tax-payer money".

"The prosecution would have spent millions of dollars on this," he said.

"With respect to the prosecution, they obviously had very senior lawyers such as Peter Davis SC and they've given it a red-hot go, but at some point the emotions of the victims and. their families have got to meet common sense .

(My Bolds)

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...ore-charges-loom/story-e6freoof-1226596784793

 

[Calliope]

A well-connected law clerk has escaped punishment after a cowardly king-hit in a pub which a lenient magistrate has said was not “gratuitous violence”.

In letting Virgil Macquarie Power, 29, off without a conviction, Magistrate Bernadette Callaghan also scoffed at campaigns against coward punches being prioritised over domestic violence, which she said was more common.


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[Calliope]

The Sunshine Coast Daily reported on its front page today that police are consulting with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions about potential appeals against sentences meted out in two recent assault cases.

Power is the son of a Noosa solicitor, grandson of a judge, and great-great great grandson of a Supreme Court judge.

No further comment.:roll eyes:

Mr Power was represented by one of Queensland's most expensive criminal lawyers, Tony Glynn QC.

Ms Callaghan even asked the prosecutor who Mr Glynn was representing when the court opened and said the Power case would be heard first because of his seniority.

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/magistrate-sparks-outrage-cowards-punch-comment/2204523/

 

[DB008]

Wow.

Just wow.


Son uses father as unsuspecting drug mule to cart $13m meth oil

Sworn Ibrahim family enemy Alex Macris helped to save his father from life in prison after admitting he used him as an unsuspecting drug mule to transport $13 million worth of methamphetamine oil in jerry cans, a court has heard.

Police arrested Stelios Macris, 75, after they found 50 kilograms of meth oil in the boot of his Ford Falcon station wagon and the spare bedroom of his central coast property in 2011.

But a court acquitted Mr Macris on Thursday after his son told the court he had “duped” his father into moving the drugs.

In giving his evidence, Alex Macris said it was “low, dog act” getting his father to cart the drugs, but did so because he never dreamt police would pull him over.

Despite confessing the drugs were his, he will not face prosecution.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/son-uses-father-as-unsuspecting-drug-mule-to-cart-13m-meth-oil-20140510-zr8pq.html#ixzz31S5l4YOM

 

[SirRumpole]

Wow.

Despite admitting the drugs were his he will not face prosecution

Words fail me.

 

[Calliope]

Sydney siege: Family of Man Haron Monis’ murdered ex-wife Noleen Hayson Pal express disgust at former husband THE DAILY TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 16, 2014 2:52PM

THE family of Man Monis’ murdered ex-wife have expressed their anger at the Australian justice system as they remember the mother-of two.

Monis’ former partner Noleen Hayson Pal, 30, was stabbed 18 times and set alight outside her Werrington unit in April 2013.

Monis was charged as an accessory before and after the fact to the murder while his girlfriend Amirah Droudis was charged with her killing.

Both were freed on bail by Magistrate William Pierce on December 12 last year at Penrith Local Court.

Magistrate Pierce said the crown's case was weak and they were no danger to the public.