LY Lawyers are experts in criminal defence cases across NSW, including the suburb of Liverpool. We provide services for criminal and traffic matters in Liverpool and surrounding suburbs.
Our team of criminal defence lawyers in Liverpool are some of the best in the country, offering exceptional legal advice and winning representation in court. We have experience winning cases across the judicial system, including the Supreme Court. With our local knowledge and expert legal insight, LY Lawyers is here to provide you with the legal representation you deserve.
Your legal rights are in the right hands.
Why choose LY Lawyers Liverpool?
At LY Lawyers in Liverpool, we provide our clients with affordable yet dedicated criminal law services. Our team of award-winning criminal lawyers in Liverpool have a proven track record of winning cases across an expansive range of matters, big and small.
From traffic offences to serious criminal charges, our solicitors will fight vigorously to get you the best results possible. This may be proving you innocent, or helping you to plead guilty and receive a more lenient sentence. LY’s criminal lawyers in Liverpool are up for the challenge whatever the task.
Our criminal law firm services
LY Lawyers is an experienced team of criminal and traffic lawyers, ready to help you no matter the case at hand.
Our Liverpool criminal lawyers deal with a wide variety of criminal and traffic offences, including:
Criminal offences
- Assaults, including police assaults, resisting police, domestic violence and AVOs and serious violence offences
- Firearms and Weapons Offences
- Possession, Supply and Importation of Prohibited Drug offences
- Sexual and Indecent Assault offences
- Using carriage service offences
- Fraud offences
- Section 10 “no conviction” applications
Traffic offences
We are also experts in all types of traffic matters, including:
- Drink Driving and Drug Driving
- Licence appeals (against the Roads and Maritime Services)
What makes us the best criminal lawyers in Liverpool?
LY Lawyers are some of the best criminal lawyers in Liverpool, with dedication to any case type, no matter the criminal offence. Our team has seen all sides of the criminal law experience, lending to their expertise and ability to understand the needs of our clients.
Our prices are competitive, and we even offer fixed fees on simpler criminal and traffic law offences, in Local or District Court alike, ensuring that there are no surprises or hidden costs.
Your first consultation with us is also free, allowing you to focus all your time and money on the real case. At LY Lawyers, we understand that criminal law to many is a complex system to navigate, so we will be here to ensure our clients never do it alone. Throughout proceedings, we will be there for our clients to ensure they are informed on their criminal law matter, while also being prepared and ready for the court process.
Our criminal lawyers are available 24/7 to support and guide you. We are even available on weekends and public holidays for urgent bail applications; our criminal law solicitors are not interested in letting any of our clients down.
To assist you, we’ve taken the time to fill the site with information about common criminal charges and some not-so-common ones.
We’ve also included an abundance of information about Apprehended Violence Orders, traffic offences and licence appeals, and many other types of matters that are common in the jurisdiction that we practise.
Take the time to look through what’s online and do not hesitate to call us if you have any further questions.
LY Lawyers Liverpool office
Our office, conveniently located in central Liverpool, is maintained to the highest standards to ensure a seamless experience for every visitor. This includes entrusting our plumbing needs to Dr Leak Plumbing, a leading plumber in Liverpool. Contact us or visit our office today for any criminal or traffic matter, no matter how big or small.
Address: Level 1, 166-170 Macquarie Street, Liverpool NSW 2170
Telephone: 1300 595 299
Courts we attend in Liverpool
Our Liverpool office services courts in the Liverpool area. This includes:
Other courts in Sydney are serviced in our City and Parramatta offices. We also have offices in Gosford and Wollongong.
Get in touch with our criminal defence lawyers
Interested in hiring a Liverpool criminal lawyer that is ready and willing to fight for you, no matter the cause? Don’t hesitate to pick up the phone and call LY Lawyers today.
You can get in touch with our team of experienced Sydney criminal lawyers at any time through our 24/7 phone assistance service. We are happy to offer some quick advice whenever it is needed, so don’t hesitate to contact us at 1300 595 299, or send us an online enquiry if you want to book your free consultation right away.
There are no criminal law matters too big or small for our team of experienced lawyers! Get the criminal defence lawyer you need for your case today.
About Liverpool
Liverpool is a rapidly developing area of Sydney. It is expected to be home to more than 300,000 residents by 2031.
One of the oldest settlements in Australia, it is the major city centre of South Western Sydney. It is also the home of one of Australia’s oldest libraries.
Liverpool criminal lawyers case studies
Our client was charged with driving with a illicit drug in her blood. This is a serious charge which carries a 6 months disqualification upon conviction. Furthermore our client was on her provisional licence and had her child in the vehicle at the time of the offence.
Our client instructed our firm that a disqualification would have a detrimental effect on her family life, particularly on her child who was required to attend regularly medical treatment.
The matter proceeded before Magistrate Swaine at Fairfield. Our solicitor argued that our client had smoked cannabis a number of days prior to the offence and was not aware that cannabis can last in the blood for up to six weeks.
Furthermore medical evidence was presented regarding our clients need to drive her child to medical appointments. It was further argued our clients good character and remorse would enable the court to be lenient on this occasion and not record a conviction
The court agreed and placed our client a bond pursuant to Section 10. No conviction meant no penalty or disqualification.
Our client was charged with driving under the influence of drugs (cannabis).
The police Facts Sheet stated that our client smoked cannabis at 5:30 am then drove at 12 pm of the same day.
Whilst driving, our client had an accident in which he sustained injuries. Upon being stopped by police our client was breath tested and returned a reading of 0.00. He was conveyed to hospital for his injuries and was observed by police having blood shot eyes and being ‘dazed, drowsy, and with slow speech’.
This prompted police to question our client about his cannabis use, to which he admitted to having used that morning.
A blood test revealed our client had present delta-9-THC less than 0.005mg per letre of blood and delta 9-THC- acid 0.026 mg per letre of blood.
Our solicitors obtained expert evidence from a psychologist that found the level of cannabis in our client’s blood could not have impaired our clients driving ability. In light of this evidence, we advised our client to plead not guilty and take the matter to hearing.
At the Downing Centre Local Court hearing before Magistrate Gilmour, the prosecution submitted expert evidence that our client was influenced by THC to the extent that his ability to drive was affected. Our solicitor submitted our psychologists report giving evidence contrary to the prosecution. The conflicting expert evidence was enough to cast reasonable doubt over the issue.
Her Honour found our client not guilty. An excellent result achieved by our dedicated solicitors.
Our client appeared at Downing Centre Local Court charged with driving whilst under the influence of a prohibited drug. He came before the Court as a young man with a terrible traffic record, having been suspended 9 times in the short time he held a licence and having 13 speeding fines on his record.
Our client had a special need for a licence and showed he could change his ways having committed no offences since his last suspension other than the offence which brought him before the Court and having completed the traffic offender Program.
Our solicitors managed to negotiate the facts with the Police and with a well prepared case was sentenced to a good behaviour bond with no conviction and no disqualification for a period of twelve months.
Our client was charged for his role in importing a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, being 585kg of Methamphetamine. He was also charged with the supply of 47g of methamphetamine, as a separate charge.
This was the largest ever recorded importation of methamphetamine in Australia’s history.
The offence carries a maximum term of imprisonment of life.
Our client was 21 years old at the time of the offence, and was recruited by others to participate in the movement of the drugs from the warehouse, upon them arriving in Australia. He was clearly a person who had a minor role in the offence and had little control over the enterprise and its operations.
He was recruited to undertake certain tasks, to enable those above him to keep a distance from detection.
Adam from our office fought hard to establish a strong case for leniency for our client, and was successful in establishing many mitigating circumstances that would lessen the overall jail term.
The case appeared before Sweeney J, in Sydney District Court in June 2014.
Our client was sentenced to a non-parole period of 4 years imprisonment.
An extraordinary result for an extremely serious charge.
Our client instructed our firm that a disqualification would have a detrimental effect on her family life, particularly on her child who was required to attend regularly medical treatment.
The matter proceeded before Magistrate Swaine at Fairfield. Our solicitor argued that our client had smoked cannabis a number of days prior to the offence and was not aware that cannabis can last in the blood for up to six weeks. Furthermore medical evidence was presented regarding our clients need to drive her child to medical appointments.
It was further argued our client’s good character and remorse would enable the court to be lenient on this occasion and not record a conviction
The court agreed and placed our client a bond pursuant to Section 10. No conviction meant no penalty or disqualification.
Our client was charged with a Mid Range PCA driving offence. Her blood alcohol concentration was 0.095. This offence carries heavy fines, an automatic period of disqualification for 12 months and a possible prison sentence.
It was essential for our client to keep her licence as she had three children in school and needed to drive them a considerable distance to school from her home.
She was also the sole carer of her mother who suffered from bipolar disorder. Her mother was heavily reliant upon our client to take her to medical appointments and treatment for her illness.
We advised our client that attending the Traffic Offenders Program would greatly assist her case, which she attended to diligently.
In May 2013 our client came before Magistrate Scherr at Burwood Local Court. Our solicitors submitted to the Court details of our client’s circumstances and evidence that she had completed the Traffic Offenders Program.
Our client received a Section 10(1)(b) bond for a period of 6 months. This meant that our client could continue driving without a penalty or a criminal record and did not receive any disqualification for committing the offence.
It also meant that our client’s criminal and traffic record remained clean. An excellent result for our client
Our client was charged with drink drinking, with a reading of 0.12. Our client was a truck driver who needed his license for work and being the sole provider for his family, we argued that his family would also suffer if he lost his licence.
Because our client could not speak English, he was unable to undertake the traffic offenders program.
Our Traffic and Drink Driving Lawyer appeared at Fairfield Local Court and was able to successfully argue for a Section 10, even though our client couldn’t undertake the traffic offenders program and the reading was on the higher end of the Mid- Range.
The court accepted there was extenuating circumstances and accepted that our client’s need for a licence and very good traffic record outweighed the need to record a conviction.
Our client received no penalty at all, and got his licence back from the court there and then
Our client was arrested by Police in breach of bail, when his partner made allegations against him stating he had assaulted her and he had threatened her with a gun. Police attended the premises and found a rifle hidden in the garden and found a several other gun parts.
Despite all odds, our solicitor obtained bail. In order to do so, she had to show new circumstances, as a prior application had been made, she then had to show cause under the new bail act, and satisfy the magistrate that he was not an unacceptable risk.
To achieve this, our solicitor’s preparation was key. She contacted witnesses and obtained statements which were crucial to the success of the application, enabling us to challenge the Crown case and show it was weak and our client’s detention was not justified.
Bail was granted by Magistrate McGlynn at Parramatta Local Court in early March 2015.
Our client was charged with serious offences of Supplying a Large Commercial Quantity of Prohibited Drug (approximately 2kg).His bail application in Burwood Local Court was refused.
We proceeded to the Supreme Court of NSW, where another application for bail was made on his behalf in June 2012.
After a 2 day hearing, our client was granted strict conditional bail. Our team successfully argued the following points:
- It would be not for another 12-18 months that our client’s case would go to trial, and if bail refused, he would have to wait this long in jail for his case to be heard.
- Despite the seriousness of the charge, there was no suggestion that he would leave the country or flee to avoid facing these charges.
- He had strong community ties and his family all in Australia.
- The prosecution case was a weak one, and there was some chance of him being acquitted of the charges.
Our client is now free to properly prepare his case and challenge the charges that have been put against him
Our client had an AVO in place against him that included that he not contact the victim by any means.
During the course of the AVO period, it was alleged that our client breached the AVO more than 100 times, by sending harassing emails to the victim.
We negotiated with the prosecution to reduce the number of emails sent to the victim, ultimately reducing the number of breaches to 40. Our client then pleaded guilty to an amended set of facts.
The matter appeared before Magistrate Holdsworth at Liverpool Local Court in May 2015. Our client’s case was diligently prepared with supporting evidence to argue his Section 10 application. This included character witness evidence, those of who also attended court on the day of sentencing. Also was evidence of overseas work travel, that which would not be possible if with a criminal conviction.
Ms. Holdsworth agreed with our submission, and proceeded to place our client on a Section 10 good behaviour bond.
Our client was charged with the offence of common assault.
His wife had alleged that our client kicked her in the stomach during a heated argument. Our client denied these allegations, saying that the contact he made was accidental and non-intentional. Our client then pleaded not guilty and the matter proceeded to a defended hearing.
Our solicitor vigorously cross-examined the alleged victim about her version of events.
Our client also gave evidence regarding his version of events. After hearing all the evidence the court found that the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that our client had intentionally kicked his wife in the stomach, as alleged by the prosecution.
Our client was found not guilty and remains criminal conviction free.
