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Consensual Sex Between Minors – A Criminal Offence?

What a lot of parents don’t realise, particularly parents with teenage children, is the concern where two young people, and I mean under the age of 16 years… they might go to school together for example… meet, have a relationship, have sex. Do you realise that one or…

How Does Bail Work?

The topic of bail frequently comes up in conversations. But what people don’t realise is that there have been three changes to the bail laws in the past 18 months or so. And they have been fairly significant. Having said that, as simple as one can state at…

What is a Section 10? (Part 1)

What is a Section 10? (Part 1) Welcome to this instalment of the Conditsis Expert Video series. My name is Michal Mantaj and I’m one of the directors here at Conditsis and today I’ll be talking about how it is possible to plead guilty to a criminal offence…

What is a Section 10? (Part 2)

What to watch Part 1? Click here. What is a Section 10? (Part 2) Now, everybody wants a Section 10 and the question is well how do you get a Section 10? The first thing to say about that is that there is no magic formula I can…

What is a Section 10? (Part 3)

What to watch Part 2? Click here. What is a Section 10? (Part 3) So that’s the ‘What’. Let’s now go through the ‘Why’. What the court will want to know is why the offence was committed. Now you need to have a think about what it is…

What is a Section 10? (Part 4)

What to watch Part 3? Click here. What is a Section 10? (Part 4) Now let me go on to the last topic and that is perhaps for most people a very important topic and that is how Section 10s work together with criminal records. Most people have…

How To Beat A Drink Driving Charge (Part 1)

Hi and welcome to this instalment of the Conditsis Expert Video series. My name is Michal Mantaj. I’m one of the directors here at Conditsis and today I will be talking about how to beat a drink-driving charge, or as we lawyers prefer to call it, what’s called…

How To Beat A Drink Driving Charge (Part 2)

The second defence is based on something called the two hour rule. The two-hour rule is simply a rule of law that states that the police have a two hour time window between the time that you drive and the time that the breath analysis which is later…