CCTV Footage – Don’t Assume Police Will Obtain All the Evidence

Posted on Dec 14, 2011 | 0 comments

Hundreds of closed circuit television cameras are dotted throughout the Adelaide CBD capturing the day to day activities of thousands of individuals.  Nightclub owners have even been ordered to install a CCTV network before approval is given for a liquor licence.  (If you ask Police Security Services how many cameras are operating that they monitor you won’t get that information.)  With all these resources available, it is very common nowadays to potentially have video footage of an incident that has formed the basis for a criminal...

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Breath Analysis Test Held to be Unreliable

Posted on Dec 1, 2011 | 0 comments

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IS THERE A DRINK DRIVING LOOPHOLE?

Posted on Aug 21, 2011 | 0 comments

“THOUSANDS of drink-driving convictions are at risk because of a legal cloud over the right of more than 1500 police officers to operate breath-testing devices,” reported the Adelaide Advertiser on 19 August 2011. According to the report, “SA Police are working to correct the loophole that saw a P-plater escape conviction after recording a blood alcohol level of 0.127.” Adelaide lawyer Ken Gluche of Websters Lawyers, who conducted the case about which this report is concerned has a very different view. “There seems to be an...

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