Criminal Case: 1. Identify the parties involved. On the 27th of February a hearing was taken place as the accused Troy Michael Lamb had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Eng Lee, being of which had taken place on the 16th January, 2006. Going against Lamb’s pledge representing the Crown is Mr GM Horgan. 2. Describe the facts of the case. Prior to the incident, Lamb had committed a number of different offences which had commenced when he was sixteen years of age. A vast majority of these offences were for theft of stolen goods and had been initiated in 1996 and 1997. Lamb appeared in the Children’s Court Three in which he was fined and placed on probation on the occasion. In later years, Lamb convicted a number of armed robberies and …show more content…
The judge is which whom represented the crown was Mr GM Horgan. The jurisdiction that the supreme court of trials has is of serious matters, usually relating to murder, attempted murder, corporate matters and civil offences which are seen to be quite complex. Their official power to make legal decisions can then determine what is to happen to the people who have committed these charges, and when the offences are civil, the jurisdictional range is unlimited. In the case of Troy Michael Lamb, the jurisdiction is jail time along with 4 years …show more content…
The then bushfire resulted in 173 deaths as well as destroying over 2,000 residential homes. A large number of the bushfire survivors decided to take action and sue the Singapore-owned power company, claiming that their faulty equipment was the root cause of the incident. A number of days after the initial fire the Victorian bushfire royal commission discovered that the cause of the fire was a faulty power line that had caught fire. In which was owned, operated and maintained by the company SP AusNet. The power line had a failure and snapped sometime during the night, it then ignited nearby vegetation. The failure was due to an ill fitted component that an SP AusNet employee had installed; by the morning over 125,000 hectares of land were destroyed, including more than 2,000 homes which were situated in the area. Cris Ruhr, one of the bushfire survivors had his entire house burned down because of it, and was seeking compensation from SP AusNet so that his could pay off his debt and repair his home. Adding to his debt is his counselling which was due to the traumatic stress the fire had caused himself and his family. This event had put his family into substantial debt. The civil case took place in the new $4,000,000 courtroom in the Supreme Court from 2013-2014, this new court was built to