February 18, 2010 3:11pm | COURTNEY TRENWITH | Brisbane Times
Without “startling” fresh evidence it is unlikely the person who killed Gold Coast woman Shaheda Hussain will ever be punished, lawyers are concluding.
A day after Mrs Hussain’s daughter Kaihana Tahseen Hussain was acquitted of her murder in the Supreme Court, legal avenues to prosecute her killer appear to be closing up.
2 February 2010 | by The New Lawyer | www.thenewlawyer.com.au
Ships may be sinking and clients drowning, but a prominent lawyer has entered the pool hoping to make a splash in the Brisbane market.
Gold Coast Bulletin article | 28 January 2010 | by Renee Redmond
Gold Coast-based Olympic swimming hopeful Daniel Smith still has a chance at gold, despite crashing his car into a house while drink-driving.
The 18-year-old appeared in Southport Magistrates Court yesterday.
Bill Potts comments on the concept of mandatory jail sentencing. The issue is presently being considered by the Attorney-General Paul Lucas....
Continue readingThe female ringleader of a vicious youth gang attack on a policeman and his girlfriend has been re-sentenced for the crime after committing more offences while on probation.
But Tiani Slockee, now 19, has escaped actual jail time.
Slockee had admitted leading a group of 10 children and teens who bashed off-duty officer Rawson Armitage and his girlfriend Michelle Dodge as they took a night-time walk through Coolangatta in November 2007.
(Courier Mail, 8 January 2010)
Flamboyant Gold Coast lawyer Bill Potts opened a Brisbane office this week with plans to expand the base of his already large criminal practice.
The mother of a man charged over allegedly threatening a Surfers Paradise nightclub patron with a fake handgun told a court she would ‘tie up’ her son so he did not break his curfew.
Jim Stokes, 23, of Surfers Paradise, was granted bail in Southport Magistrates Court yesterday on strict conditions, including that he live with his mother, abide by a 9pm curfew and stay out of the Surfers Paradise nightclub precinct.
THE teenager charged with stabbing her best friend in the neck will be free to fly back to New Zealand tomorrow while the glassing victim spends Christmas in hospital undergoing surgery.
The parents of 19-year-old Danielle Armstrong were yesterday frantically opening Australian bank accounts and transferring $20,000 bail money from New Zealand so their daughter could be released from custody to fly back to Auckland with them tomorrow.
CHARGES brought against a Brisbane man whose ski boat ran over and killed a friend’s child have been dismissed by a Maryborough magistrate.
Jeffrey Ussher, 25, and his family and supporters wept with relief after magistrate John Smith ruled in a late court sitting last night that he should not have to stand trial for the dangerous operation of a vessel.
Bill Potts appeared as a guest columnist in the Gold Coast Bulletin on 13 November 2009.
A conversation I recently had at a dinner party caused me to rethink how to approach my daily grind.
