A look inside one of the world's busiest local courts, Sydney's Downing Centre, and the drama that arises when people face the justice system.
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Air Date: 2017-07-02
An inside look at the machinations of Australia’s busiest local court sees Sydney’s top Magistrates dealing with a vi...
Air Date: 2017-07-09
Sydney’s top Magistrates dole out punishment for a spate of alcohol-fuelled crimes. Two British backpackers have viol...
Air Date: 2017-07-16
People from all walks of life end up in Australia’s busiest local court. A drug addict, two disrespectful twenty-some...
Air Date: 2017-07-23
Sending a defendant to jail is never an easy decision for Magistrates in Australia’s busiest local court. Three defen...
Air Date: 2017-07-30
Sydney’s busiest local courts are home to heartbroken parents supporting errant children as they face the full weight...
Air Date: 2017-08-06
Drug offences account for almost twenty percent of all cases before Australia’s busiest local courts. Drug related cr...
Air Date: 2017-08-13
Over half the defendants who appear in Australia’s busiest local court will re-offend within ten years. Today four se...
Air Date: 2017-08-20
Drink driving is an endemic problem around the world and in NSW alone 20,000 people are charged with the offence. Mag...
Air Date: 2017-08-27
In Australia’s busiest local court a surprising number of defendants choose to do without a lawyer and instead repres...
Air Date: 2017-09-03
Sydney’s hardworking Magistrates reveal the difficult deliberations handing down a sentence to a young man caught for...