Criminal Lawyers Brisbane - Bosscher Lawyers Law Firm QLD, Australia

Clients are often concerned about the impact of their criminal matters on their job and employment prospects in the future. While this article provides important information for people facing criminal convictions or with a criminal history, employers should also take note. While some employees simply cannot do their job because of their criminal history (for example, where they require security clearances), employers should take care when making hiring decisions where applicants have a criminal history. Where a person’s ability to do their job is in no way impacted by their criminal history, employers must take care not to fall foul of anti-discrimination law. Additionally, it may pay to enquire as to the circumstances surrounding an applicant’s offending. Your best employee may have made a foolish mistake or shown a lapse in judgement which has resulted in their criminal history. Jumping to conclusions about a person’s trustworthiness may be at the cost of securing the most competent,...

Elizabeth Anne Turner, a 67-year-old mother jailed for attempting to pervert justice and perjury, successfully had her conviction overturned and will have a retrial. Turner allegedly helped her son buy a yacht to escape the country before his drug smuggling trial in 2015. Bosscher Lawyers is representing Turner in this case. Turner was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice and three counts of perjury in February. She was initially sentenced to four years of jail time with no chance of parole for two years. The Court of Appeal determined there was a miscarriage of justice due to evidence excluded from her trial. Turner allegedly offered $520,000 surety to help her son, Markis Scott Turner, get bail and afterwards helped him escape by buying him a yacht he sailed to the Philippines. Markis had been arrested in 2011 for allegations of heading a major cocaine importation syndicate. She allegedly lied so her son could remain in hiding by telling the authorities sh...

With news that alleged drug importer Mostafa Baluch has been found and arrested, police are continuing to make comments about the original grant of bail, the latest indicating how police are “furious the magistrate allowed him out on bail”. A grant of bail is a consideration of certain risks to the community etc and are founded on a number of factors, including a person’s criminal history but importantly the strength of the police case. Police did not provide the court with the appropriate amount of evidence to satisfy a Magistrate that bail should not be granted. It was Police who failed to satisfy a court in circumstances where they, after obviously spending considerable resources in investigating Mr Baluch, could not compile a compelling enough argument. The Magistrate granted bail with extremely strict conditions, including wearing an ankle bracelet that is monitored by police 24/7. Police are alerted immediately when a bracelet is tampered with so would have been aware as soon ...

Yaacov Amsalem, a 50-year-old Israeli national, faced a Brisbane court on Tuesday following his extradition from the Philippines. Amsalem is facing charges of conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug and conspiring to traffic a commercial quantity of a controlled drug and conspiracy to deal in the proceeds of crime exceeding $1 million. Read More The post Bosscher Lawyers Represent Man Charged with Attempt to Smuggle 200kg of Cocaine appeared first on Bosscher Lawyers . source https://bosscherlawyers.com/bosscher-lawyers-represent-man-charged-with-attempt-to-smuggle-200kg-of-cocaine/

Matthew James Long and Alenxadra Chiodo appeared before the Noosa Magistrate’s court on Tuesday in relation to drug charges. Defence lawyer Alex Jones of Bosscher Lawyers is representing both defendants. Long is facing charges for allegedly importing and exporting a dangerous drug, supplying and trafficking a dangerous drug, 28 counts of fraud, possession of tainted property and stealing. At the same time, Chiodo is accused of fraud, possession of tainted material and supplying a dangerous drug. Along with Long and Chiodo, Marcus Les Wright and three others appeared in Noosa Magistrate’s court. The charges are connected to a 12-month Noosa CIB investigation that led police to bring to trial 25 people with a total of 103 charges. Wright faces charges for supplying and trafficking a dangerous drug, fraud and stealing, while the others are accused of fraud and possession and trafficking of a dangerous drug. Long and Chiodo were given bail, as were the rest of the accused. The case w...

Yaacov Amsalem, the alleged high-worth international drug lord and fugitive, will be turned over to the authorities in Australia after years of hiding in the Philippines. Bosscher Lawyers’ is representing Mr Amsalem. Amsalem, a French-Israeli national, was arrested in 2014 for multiple drug charges and for allegedly leading a drug syndicate. He fought his deportation but will finally be handed over to the Australian Police. Interpol declared the French-Israeli national as an international fugitive who lied low in the Philippines alongside ex-soldiers as his bodyguards, according to a source from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Amsalem and one of his bodyguards were apprehended by agents of NBI-Interpol while at a bar in Makati City in 2014. During his arrest, he had already been on the run for four years and was scheduled to return to China, where he lived. “His presence in the country was tipped off by the Australian Police,” according to the NBI source. The post Alle...

A 67-year old mother and grandmother have successfully had her conviction overturned before the Queensland Court of Appeal. After her trial before the Mackay District Court in November 2020, a jury found her guilty of assisting her son to flee the country to avoid major drug charges himself, as well as three counts of lying to the Supreme Court regarding her son’s disappearance. Prosecutions argued that our client conspired with her son to avoid his 2015 Supreme Court trial for the importation and trafficking of cocaine. Approximately one month before that trial commenced, her son disappeared, to eventually be found in the Philippines almost precisely two years later. The conviction came on Day 9 of the trial after the defence had called a number of witnesses, including a handwriting expert, to rebut the prosecution case. Despite maintaining her innocence and producing evidence to support her claim, clearly, the jury accepted the prosecution case. As a result of the convictions, sh...