A suspended license means that you cannot drive for a specified amount of time. You get the ability to drive back after the period of suspension ends, usually automatically. A disqualified license, on the other hand, means that you cannot drive at all. A disqualified license occurs when a license is cancelled. A cancelled license
In Victoria, you can be charged if you refuse a saliva sample. It’s an offence to refuse to comply with a request to provide a sample of oral fluid when lawfully requested to do so by a police officer, and refusal to do so can result in heavy fines and loss of license, with even
In Victoria, driving while disqualified is prohibited on all Australian roads under the Road Safety Act of 1986. The maximum penalty for driving whilst your driver’s licence is disqualified is 2 years imprisonment or 240 penalty units or both. That being said, it’s quite rare that the maximum penalty is given out. If you or
Based on the Crimes Act 1958, someone can go to jail for threatening to kill another person. That threat must either be made with the intention that someone else would believe it or is reckless regarding whether the other person would fear the threat would be carried out. In other words, the threat must be
The “standard of proof” in a legal matter is the amount of evidence required to return a verdict in favour of the plaintiff or, in a criminal case, the prosecution. It is not possible to be 100% sure that a verdict should be in favour of one party or the other, so standards of proof
The law in Victoria sets clear age limits for when you can legally have sex. This is called the age of consent. A person can be charged with a sexual offence if they perform a sexual act that breaks these age limits, even if the younger person agrees. In Victoria, a person aged 16 years
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