Dunno what law school you went to man, but perjury is the offence of lying under oath, ie: you have to be in court, sworn in, giving evidence under oath...
In Queensland at least, you cannot be sued for making a complaint to police. There is a legislative exemption for this to not discourage people from reporting offending. I’d be astonished if NsW didn’t have something similar.
New info ? Or, new memories of the evening? It's hard to see how something 'new' came along so much later. Perhaps Bellends alleged partner in crime decided to hang his mate out to dry.
It’s possible. De Belin has been charged with additional offences, but his alleged co-offender has not. That may indicate the co-offender is co-operating with authorities, it may not.
“If you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, remember not to rape her”. I fucking lost it right there lol.
A professional sportsman can only maintain or increase his value by playing, while not doing so definitely decreases his market value. There is a difference between the right to play and being prohibited from playing. His club already made clear they would play him if they were allowed to. Preventing that does in my opinion amount to restriction of trade.
Nothing to worry about there, he looks like the kind of douche that would shave his own arse.
Traffic cops are scum. It's never going to happen while they need their little egos inflated.
If the employee is found innocent, whose fault is it that the company's name was dragged through the mud?
The employee would need to look at his legal options against those who dragged his name through the mud. IE: Not the NRL. It's a pointless question though, because my example happens in the real world, only now do people start to take notice, because for some reason, we care more about dumb football players than we do regular people. Any other aspect of life, you're sitting down, or on a desk. If it's good enough for corporate, it's good enough for the NRL.
Oh don't get me wrong, I am not arguing for that dumb ****. My argument is for anyone who suffers that fate while not proven guilty. Bellend's example is just a very public one of something I am absolutely against.
Lets assume you own the company you currently work for. You're the boss, your companies image is on the line. I would be very, very surprised, if someone as business savvy as you, would send an accused gang rapist to another big company to try and sell them one of your fancy machines.
Fair question, and one I honestly don't know the answer to... it probably depends on how much damage the company would incur and how much the rest of the employees would suffer from it.
Oh read it wrong. No idea. Not really a concern of mine. Anyway. At what point did it become the employee's decision of what job he would be doing at the company?
So you're concerned about the company's name going through the mud because of an accusation against an employee, but no longer concerned about the same thing when said employee is cleared? I'm not sure I understand.
The company is in a position, and acted to remove that problem from their company. I'm actually not sure what your question is. Are you asking me if the police should be held accountable if the company name is dragged through the mud after they keep the employee in a customer facing role? Because that would be on them, hence it's their prerogative to take that person from the front, and sit him down the back until it blows over.
I disagree. Matty Johns for example has increased his value far more in retirement than anything he did by playing.
No it doesn’t. To me this is an even weaker argument than the idea that speculation should be allowed in court, for starters JDB has the choice of a judge only trial or a trial by Jury. That is his choice. A properly instructed Jury in my opinion having personally sat through literally DAYS of Juries being instructed will also not convict on the basis of media coverage, but in any case if he feels differently then he can have a Judge only trial and avoid that issue all together.
He hasn’t yet suffered any consequences of an accusation of criminality. What even his own lawyer couldn’t successfully argue is that he may one day suffer consequences because his employer decided that their business interests were affected by his alleged actions and took steps to protect themselves from harm.
Again I don’t agree about JDB’s ‘strategy’ for the reasons outlined above, but additionally challenging the State is the very reason WHY we have courts in the first place and why they range from the likes of QCAT which is purposefully designed to allow the ‘little fish’ to take on the big players, all the way to the Supreme Court which can deal with virtually any legal situation that can be contemplated. Any administrative action or prosecution can be challenged in this Country. But society dictates that this should never be easy in the same way that it dictates that such action should never be taken lightly.
Or obey the law... Not to make myself seem holier than thou too greatly, but I’ve had 5 traffic infringements in my life and had go through the Federal Court for a Property Settlement with the first Wicked Witch... Apart from my professional role, those are the only legal dealings I’ve ever had in my 43 years on this planet... It is my experience that obeying the law means you rarely ever have to fight against ‘anything’ in this lucky country of ours.
If true, I hope and expect he will enjoy a significant stretch at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, based on the allegations I have heard.
People could, but you have to remember the fines you get on a ticket are the regulated amount for the infringement notice, not the full range of penalties available to a court for dealing with these offences. Hence why you see those ‘you may be fined up to $16,518 or 12 months in jail’ type posters in pubs. Those penalties are the maximum you could receive for these offences, not the infringement amounts, which are set by regulation if the ticket is paid.
Who is doing the dragging? Not the NRL. If JDB think he has been unfairly treated by the media outlets doing said dragging, he has legal options against them.
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