Author: AJ Faisal

am A J Faisal and I have completed my law degree at the University of Southern Queensland. I have been shadowing Mr Ken Mackenzie of Mackenzie Mitchell Solicitors to gain valuable experience in criminal defence for nearly 3 years. Mr Mackenzie is an accredited criminal defence lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in practice. I am a solicitor in the State of Queensland. This is my blog and all contents are my learnings through my work experience and legal studies. These are blog posts and are not advice and please do not consider any of my blog posts as legal advice. These are merely to get basic and general ideas. Every case is unique. If you need legal advice, you should contact an admitted lawyer.

Solicitors Duty toward Clients

A solicitor has 3 duties toward a client; 1- Act on clients best interest 2- Maintain confidentiality, and 3- Disclose all relevant information to Client Something I learned recently in relation to conflict check and why it is important.

Dangerous Driving Causing Accident

What happens if you are involved in dangerous driving which caused death? Get in touch with the best Criminal Lawyers in Brisbane.

Handcuffing

Handcuffing In the following mentioned case, unreasonable handcuffing was discussed. it appears that, Police can not handcuff just because a person was arrested. Kumar v Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs (1991) 28 FCR 128 In interpretation, Kyrou J. stated in Slaveski v State of Victoria [2010] VSC 441, “Lockhart J held that […]

Pervert Course of Justice

In R v Danahay [1993] 1 Qd R 271 his honour referred to R v Kellett[1976] Q.B. 372 where Stephenson L.J stated “With this authority in mind we would not consider that the offence of attempting to pervert the course of justice would necessarily be committed by a person who tried to persuade a false […]