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Legal Studies Assessment Law to punish miscarriage assaults February 24, 2005 ASSAULTS on pregnant women leading to the deaths of their unborn children will be punishable by up to 25 years in prison under new New South Wales laws. NSW Attorney-General Bob Debus said the Government would amend the definition of grievous bodily harm under the Crimes Act to include the loss of an unborn child. Mr Debus said the amendment would not interfere with existing abortion laws. He said the amendment was being introduced after the cases of Renee Shields who lost her unborn baby boy Byron in a road rage incident in 2001 and Kylie Flick who lost her unborn child after she was assaulted in 2002. 'The amendment is specifically aimed at criminal attacks upon women, enabling the courts to give due recognition to the pain and trauma experienced by women like Renee Shields and Kylie Flick who lost their babies following senseless and brutal attacks,' Mr Debus said.

This particular article is about a new amendment that has been introduced that if an offender assaults a pregnant woman and causes a miscarriage then the offender will receive up to 25 years. I think this is a good idea, it causes women a lot of stress and emotional damage if they lose a child unborn or born, if a criminal is the cause of a baby's death then the effect will be compensation of the woman by dealing the maximum punishment. This article concerns administrative law as it is a law introduced to help the rights of citizens. Unprovoked Man jailed for shooting girl February 24, 2005 A FATHER of two has been jailed for at least five years for the unprovoked shooting of a teenage girl. Riannon Pierce required emergency surgery after she was shot in the abdomen by Robin Paul Murdoch at her home at Macclesfield, south-east of Adelaide, during the early hours of January 1, 2003.

The South Australian District Court heard Murdoch, 29, of Mount Barker, smiled as he fired the revolver and threatened: 'If you tell anyone about this I'm going to shoot you. I'm going to kill you'. He had met Riannon, now 17, just moments before the shooting. Halfway through his court trial, Murdoch pleaded guilty to carrying a loaded firearm in a public place and two charges of discharging a firearm with intent to annoy or frighten.

He was further convicted by a jury of one charge of shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Judge Michael Boylan said today Murdoch had been showing off the revolver before the near-fatal shooting, playing with bullets and firing the gun into the air and at another boy's feet. Judge Boylan said Riannon remained traumatized by the event, suffered panic attacks and was antisocial. 'It was not possible to remove the bullet and it is still lodged near her spine,' he said. 'It is her understanding that should doctors try to remove the bullet, she may end up paralysed.

'She still experiences stiffness, soreness and pain, and has difficulty sleeping. 'She worries that she will be unable to have children. ' Judge Boylan expressed grave concern that no-one, including Murdoch, could explain the motive for the shooting. He sentenced Murdoch to eight years and six months imprisonment, with a non-parole period of five years. This article is about a man who has been persecuted to eight years nine months imprisonment for shooting a teenage girl who now has a bullet lodged in her back near her spine, and she knows that if doctors try and get it out she may end up paralysed and she has various pains and aches and has trouble sleeping. This is obviously to do with criminal law as it a criminal offence to shoot people.

The law is effective in this particular case I think as he did do something against the law and should be punished; I actually feel that his sentence isn't long enough. Ports fined $90 K after accident by Samantha Baden February 24, 2005 THE Sydney Ports Corporation has been fined $90,000 after it was found responsible for a faulty movable gangway that catapulted a wharf ie onto a jetty, inflicting massive injuries including brain damage. Work Cover NSW successfully sued the Sydney Ports Corporation in the New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) for breaching the Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Act over the July 23, 2001, incident at Port Botany. Sydney Ports failed to ensure 'the health, safety and welfare at work' of its employees, IRC Justice Conrad Staff found in his judgment on the matter. The corporation initially pleaded not guilty to the offence but changed its plea to guilty on the second day of the hearing. Mr Collins suffered multiple injuries including an open fractured pelvis with six fractures as a result of the incident.

His femur was driven through his hip into his abdomen, he had an embolism in a lung and lost 40 per cent of lung capacity and also suffered brain damage. The accident occurred after Mr Collins, a port officer, used a movable gangway to gain access to a tug. The gangway was stored in a vertical position and was mechanically lowered to the horizontal position. But as Mr Collins walked across the gangway, it moved quickly from the horizontal position to the vertical position, catapulting Mr Collins from the gangway onto the jetty. Justice Staff noted Sydney Ports Corporation had made efforts to fix problems with the gangway prior to the event. But he said its use by Mr Collins involved 'inherent risk of it suddenly moving to the vertical position if there was a failure in the components'.

'I am satisfied that the defendant knew of the risk of the gangway suddenly moving to the vertical position and it was for this reason during 2000 that it sought the advice... on a possible redesign of the gangway to eliminate this risk. ' Justice Staff fined the Sydney Ports Corporation $90,000 and ordered it to pay Work Cover's legal costs. This article is about a faulty moveable gangway that catapulted a Sydney Ports Wharf ie on to a jetty which resulted in multiple injuries. This is an industrial accident therefore its to do with industrial law. Work Cover sued the company and compensated the man so it is also a tort case. Truck boss fined $42,000 over death February 28, 2005 A TRUCK boss whose lax safety management contributed to a driver's death was fined $42,000 today by a New South Wales industrial court.

Darr i Haynes, 37, was killed when he crashed his semi-trailer into another truck on the Pacific Highway at Tyndale, near Grafton, on the NSW north coast, in 1999. In a landmark ruling in October that confirmed a driver's truck is his workplace, the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) found Mr Haynes' employer Jim Hitchcock guilty of failing to provide safe working conditions. Today, IRC Vice President Michael Walton fined Mr Hitchcock $42,000. The maximum penalty is $110,000.

'In determining penalty I have considered the objective seriousness of the offences, including the compelling need for general deterrents and the limited subjective factors... including Mr Hitchcock's high civic standing,' Justice Walton said in his judgment. The Transport Workers Union (TWU) labelled the sentence 'pitiful' and said in cases such as these a custodial sentence should be considered. 'This sentence is lacking as a commercial deterrent,' TWU NSW secretary Tony Sheldon said outside the court. 'In this case the employer failed to take responsibility for a safe working environment.

' This article is about a truck that crashed his semi-trailer into another truck on the north coast in 1999. A landmark ruling in October stated that a drivers truck is his workplace therefore the driver crashing shows signs of the employer not providing a safe workplace environment. This is an industrial issue, hence the industrial courts, and thus industrial law is practised in this incident. Bikes get record jail terms February 28, 2005 TWO members of New South Wales and Queensland chapters of an outlaw bike gang were handed record jail terms today by a Sydney court for the manufacture and supply of speed. Richard James Walsh, 33, received a sentence of 32 years for supplying about 450 kg of the drug between March 1997 and his arrest in September 2001.

Todd Douglas Little, 38, received a maximum 22 year sentence for manufacturing and supplying 19 kg of amphetamine in the two years to September 1999. Both had pleaded guilty to all the charges against them in the NSW Supreme Court. Walsh was a senior member of the Nomads Motorcycle Club's Newcastle chapter, supplying gang members and their associates with speed. Little, a key member of the Nomads' Gold Coast chapter, operated a drug laboratory on the NSW north coast. Justice Roderick Howie said it was the most serious case of its kind he knew of. Had it not been for his guilty plea, Walsh would have received the maximum life sentence, he said.

Judge Howie jailed Walsh for up to 32 years for supplying drugs, and for 13 years and eight months for other matters, including firearms offences. Little was sentenced to a maximum 22 years for making and supplying drugs, as well as another four years and nine months for firearms offences. Walsh and Little will be eligible for parole in 2025 and 2018 respectively. Outside the court, Detective Inspector Wayne Gordon, who led the police investigation, said the sentence sent a message that drug dealing would not be tolerated. 'To my knowledge the sentences handed down today are the most lengthy in the nation's history for this type of criminality with outlaw motorcycle gangs,' he said. This article is about 2 bike gang members who have been convicted of manufacturing and distributing the illicit drug 'speed' also known as amphetamines, etc. this is a criminal offence and therefore it is dealt with using criminal law.

Riots continue over chase deaths February 28, 2005 POLICE and rioters have clashed again in a Sydney suburb in the third night of battles sparked by the death of two teenagers after a police car chase. The two teenagers died when the stolen car they were in hit a tree during a police chase at Macquarie Fields in Sydney's southwest on Friday night. The driver of the stolen car, who police say is known to them, fled the scene and has not been found. In the third successive night of clashes, 100 police officers were attacked by 150 rioters who threw Molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles.

The officers were first confronted by 100 people while helping firefighters extinguish a car fire in Telopea Street, one block from Friday night's accident scene. A further 50 people, most disguised by makeshift head wraps, appeared in Rosewood Avenue, throwing rocks at police. Three officers were injured. One suffered concussion, another was bitten by a police dog and a third fractured his hand. Four people have been arrested, including a 21-year-old man, who was charged with rioting, and a 25-year-old man, who was charged with rioting and carrying an unlawful assembled offensive instrument. The men, who were treated for dog bites, were refused bail and will appear in Campbelltown Local Court.

A 17-year-old local youth was charged with affray and was refused bail to appear in Rei by Childrens Court, while another youth was cautioned and released. A 13-year-old boy was detained by police and released into the custody of his mother. NSW police superintendent John Sweeney, from Macquarie Fields, said the situation was tense, but police remained in control at all times. 'We did not engage this conflict,' Supt Sweeney said. 'It started in response to a fire, however police were met by two groups within the community who took it upon themselves to hamper police in their work. ' Dyllan Rayward, 17, and 19-year-old Matthew Robertson were killed when the stolen car they were travelling in ploughed into a tree during a police chase along Eucalyptus Drive on Friday night.

Police have defended their actions, saying the officers involved likely followed police pursuit protocol. Emotions flared later that night and the following evening when mourners and other young people attacked police with stones. Supt Sweeney said police understood that members of the local community were still grieving over the deaths. 'However, the police must be able to continue to investigate the circumstances of their deaths on behalf of the Coroner and also continue their inquiries,' he said. He also urged the driver to come forward. Jamie Rayward, father of one of the teenagers killed, has blamed police for unnecessarily chasing the car which ploughed into a tree.

'Why chase a car, the car is total led and Dyllan and Matt are dead - for what? ,' Mr Rayward said on Channel 9 yesterday. NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Denis Clifford said the attacks on police would be investigated by a new taskforce called Loudon, comprising officers from throughout the Greater Metropolitan Region. NSW Premier Bob Carr yesterday described the attack on police as disgraceful. Youths from the area appeared on television yesterday challenging the police to return, with This is an article describing a riot that occurred at Sydney earlier, the riot started when a police car was in pursuit of two teenagers in a stolen car. The car crashed into a tree and police were all over the scene when a riot broke out over the deaths and rioters were throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails and anything else they could find.

Rioting is against the law as a criminal offence therefore criminal law will be applied to this case.