In 2013, our client approached us to represent him in relation to an appeal against a sentence that had been imposed on him in the District Court for various offences, including two counts of possessing an unauthorised pistol and one count of supplying a prohibited drug.

Hanna Legal filed the appeal and instructed Phillip Boulten SC at the hearing in May 2014.

On 28 November 2014, the Court of Criminal Appeal handed down its decision. The appeal was upheld and our client’s non-parole period was reduced from seven years to five years and three months, meaning that he was eligible to be released in two weeks from the date of the decision.

For more information, see: Underworld ‘enforcer’ may be out by Xmas, 9News, 28 November 2014.

To read the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal, see: Atkinson v R [2014] NSWCCA 262.