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Joshua Jung
Founder & Principal SolicitorCore Defence Lawyers
Admitted to practise in New South Wales in 2016, Joshua Jung practises exclusively in criminal law, representing individuals throughout the State. His practice focuses on domestic violence charges and ADVO proceedings, with contested-hearing and evidence-focused preparation, bail applications, criminal appeals and other defended criminal matters.
- Admitted in NSW in 2016
- Criminal Law Focus
- Domestic Violence & ADVO Defence
- Contested-Hearing & Evidence-Focused Preparation
- Direct Principal Solicitor Access
A Commitment To Criminal Defence
A Commitment To Criminal Defence
Joshua Jung is a criminal defence solicitor whose practice is dedicated to representing individuals facing domestic violence allegations throughout New South Wales. He advises and represents clients at every stage of the criminal justice process, from police investigations and bail applications through to defended hearings, sentence proceedings, appeals and related Apprehended Domestic Violence Order (ADVO) proceedings.
Joshua understands that domestic violence allegations are unlike most other criminal charges. They often arise in emotionally charged circumstances, involve competing accounts of private events and can have immediate consequences for a person's liberty, employment, family relationships, professional reputation and future. For many clients, the criminal proceedings are only one part of a much broader personal crisis.
His approach begins with a simple principle: every allegation must be tested against the evidence, not assumptions.
Professional Standards
Professional Standards
Joshua Jung's approach to criminal defence is guided by the principles contained within Our Standard.
These principles include:
- 01Advocacy Before Marketing.
- 02Knowledge Before Promotion.
- 03Trust Before Visibility.
- 04Authority Is Earned.
Read Our StandardThe objective is not to claim authority.
The objective is to deserve authority.
Philosophy
The Philosophy Behind Core Defence Lawyers
Core Defence Lawyers was established on the belief that professional standards should drive reputation.
Not the other way around.
Joshua believes:
- Advocacy should come before marketing.
- Knowledge should come before promotion.
- Trust should come before visibility.
- Authority should be earned rather than claimed.
Read Our StandardThe objective is not to claim authority.
The objective is to deserve authority.
Exclusive Focus
Exclusive Focus On Criminal Law
Every case is approached on its own facts.
Joshua carefully analyses the prosecution brief to determine whether the evidence is reliable, admissible and capable of proving each element of the offence beyond reasonable doubt. He examines witness statements, body-worn video, CCTV footage, mobile telephone evidence, photographs, medical records, forensic material and other documentary evidence to identify inconsistencies, omissions, credibility issues and available legal defences.
His practice includes representing clients charged with common assault (domestic violence), assault occasioning actual bodily harm, stalk or intimidate, contravene ADVO, malicious damage and other criminal offences arising from domestic relationships. He also advises clients responding to ADVO applications and associated police investigations.
Domestic Violence Defence
Domestic Violence Defence
Joshua believes that effective criminal defence is founded on disciplined preparation rather than courtroom improvisation. Before any hearing, careful consideration is given to the legal issues, the available evidence, the prosecution's burden of proof, potential evidentiary objections, the strengths and weaknesses of competing accounts and the strategy most likely to advance the client's case. This methodical preparation allows advocacy to be purposeful, focused and responsive as the evidence unfolds.
Where allegations are defended, Joshua prepares each matter with close attention to witness credibility, factual disputes and the evidentiary issues that commonly determine domestic violence proceedings. His objective is not simply to respond to the prosecution's case, but to understand it thoroughly, identify its weaknesses and ensure every issue favourable to the client is properly presented before the court.
He regularly appears in the Local Court and prepares matters that proceed to higher courts where required, across negotiated resolutions, defended hearings, sentencing proceedings and criminal appeals.
Competing Factual Accounts
Where two accounts diverge, the question becomes what the evidence, considered as a whole, reliably establishes.
Relationship Breakdowns
Allegations frequently arise against the background of a relationship breakdown, which forms part of the relevant context.
Electronic Communications
Messages, emails and social media are often contemporaneous and may support or contradict an account.
Body-Worn Video
Police footage can preserve observations made shortly after events that would otherwise rely on memory alone.
Credibility Disputes
Credibility and reliability are assessed together, because an honest witness may still be mistaken.
Contextual Evidence
The surrounding circumstances help a court understand how the evidence fits together.
Apprehended Domestic Violence Orders
ADVOs are civil orders that frequently accompany a charge and operate alongside any bail conditions.
Contravene ADVO Allegations
An alleged breach of an order is a separate criminal matter requiring its own careful analysis.
Bail Issues
Bail is concerned with the assessment and management of risk, and is often decided early in a matter.
Defended Hearings
Where an allegation is contested, the disputed issues are determined on the evidence at a hearing.
Appeals
In defined circumstances, a decision may be reviewed by a higher court according to established principles.
An Educational Approach
Each matter is approached with preparation and balance, never sensationalism or assumption.
Contested Domestic Violence Hearings
Contested Domestic Violence Hearings
Domestic violence allegations frequently involve disputed factual issues. In many matters the outcome depends upon the court's assessment of evidence, credibility, reliability and context.
Joshua Jung has significant experience acting in contested domestic violence proceedings throughout New South Wales.
These matters often involve:
- Competing factual accounts.
- Witness credibility issues.
- Alleged inconsistencies.
- Electronic communications.
- Text messages.
- Body-worn video footage.
- CCTV evidence.
- Contextual evidence.
- Cross-examination of witnesses.
- ADVO proceedings.
- Contravene ADVO allegations.
Evidence Assessment
Identifying what the available evidence reliably establishes, what is absent, and what remains genuinely in dispute.
Witness Credibility
Considering credibility and reliability together, because an honest witness may still be mistaken about what occurred.
Electronic Evidence
Examining text messages, social media and other communications that are often contemporaneous and revealing in context.
Defended Hearings
Preparing contested matters for determination on the evidence, including the cross-examination of witnesses.
ADVO Proceedings
Acting in apprehended domestic violence order proceedings and contravene ADVO allegations as distinct matters.
Strategic Preparation
Developing a coherent case theory grounded in the evidence, the elements in issue and the applicable law.
Domestic violence hearings frequently turn on evidence rather than allegations alone.
Understanding how courts assess credibility, reliability, corroboration and context is often central to the determination of disputed proceedings.
Evidence-Focused Advocacy
Evidence-Focused Advocacy
Joshua's approach to criminal defence is heavily influenced by evidence.
Effective criminal defence requires understanding:
- What evidence exists.
- What evidence is absent.
- What evidence is reliable.
- What evidence is disputed.
- What evidence is corroborated.
- What conclusions the evidence can reasonably support.
Courtroom Representation
Courtroom Representation
Local Court
District Court
Children's Court
Bail Applications
Defended Hearings
Sentencing Proceedings
ADVO Hearings
Traffic Matters
Licence Appeals
Criminal Appeals
No amount of marketing can compensate for inadequate preparation.
No amount of publicity can substitute for professional competence.
Representative Criminal Law Experience
Representative Criminal Law Experience
The following reflects the categories of criminal law matters encountered in practice across the Local and District Courts of New South Wales. It is provided to illustrate practical experience. It does not identify any client and does not discuss the outcome of any matter.
Defended Domestic Violence Hearings
Police-Only Prosecutions
Contravene ADVO Matters
Local Court Defended Hearings
Bail Applications
Severity Appeals
Conviction Appeals
District Court Sentencing Proceedings
Assault Allegations
Drug Offence Matters
Traffic and Licence Appeals
Media Coverage & Reported Matters
Media Coverage & Reported Matters
Some criminal matters attract public attention and media reporting.
Joshua Jung has acted in matters reported by Australian media outlets, reflecting the broad range of criminal law matters encountered in practice.
Media attention does not determine the significance of a matter.
Every client deserves careful preparation and professional representation regardless of whether proceedings attract publicity.
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Each matter depends upon its own facts, evidence and circumstances.
Core Defence Lawyers is committed to providing professional representation regardless of whether a matter receives public attention.
Strategic Preparation
Strategic Preparation
Preparation frequently involves:
- 01
Reviewing prosecution briefs.
- 02
Analysing witness statements.
- 03
Examining electronic evidence.
- 04
Assessing legal issues.
- 05
Evaluating strengths and weaknesses.
- 06
Identifying factual disputes.
- 07
Developing coherent case theories.
Every matter presents its own challenges.
Every matter requires its own strategy.
Practical And Realistic Advice
Practical And Realistic Advice
Joshua provides clients with clear, realistic and practical advice throughout the proceedings. He believes informed clients make better decisions, particularly when facing significant personal and legal consequences.
Rather than making promises about outcomes, he explains the available options, the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence, the legal principles that apply and the practical implications of each course of action.
Clients value Joshua's careful preparation, straightforward communication and commitment to ensuring they understand every stage of the process — particularly those who have never previously been involved with the criminal justice system.
Contribution To Public Understanding
Contribution To Public Understanding
Joshua Jung is the principal author and driving force behind a body of public educational resources concerning criminal law and domestic violence proceedings in New South Wales.
These resources are intended to promote disciplined analysis, improve public understanding and contribute positively to legal education. Their purpose is educational; their secondary benefit is visibility.
People make better decisions when they have access to reliable information.
Domestic Violence Defence Hub
The central resource on domestic violence proceedings, evidence and process in New South Wales.
ADVO Resource Centre
How apprehended domestic violence orders are made, defended, varied and enforced.
False Allegations Resource Centre
How disputed allegations are assessed through credibility, reliability, corroboration and context.
Defended Hearings Resource Centre
How contested matters are determined on the evidence, from burden of proof to judgment.
Domestic Violence Bail Resource Centre
Bail principles, the unacceptable risk test and the conditions that manage identified risks.
Domestic Violence Appeals Resource Centre
The pathways to review a decision and the principles that govern criminal and ADVO appeals.
Core Defence Frameworks
A coherent body of original analytical frameworks for understanding evidence and disputed proceedings.
Knowledge Centre
A developing library of original legal analysis spanning the areas that most often determine a matter.
The Core Defence Frameworks
The Core Defence Frameworks
These frameworks are educational resources intended to promote disciplined analysis, improve public understanding and contribute positively to legal education. Each addresses a distinct dimension of a matter, and together they form a single, coherent method.
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The Core Defence Domestic Violence Method
The overarching framework for analysing and preparing domestic violence matters from allegation to determination.
II
The Core Defence Credibility Assessment Framework
How courts commonly assess reliability, consistency, corroboration and disputed accounts.
III
The Core Defence Evidence Evaluation Framework
The different categories of evidence encountered in proceedings and how each is weighed.
IV
The Core Defence Evidence Continuum
A staged model for understanding how evidence is gathered, tested and ultimately relied upon.
V
The Core Defence Analysis Protocol
A structured sequence for identifying issues, mapping evidence and synthesising a matter.
VI
The Core Defence Prosecution Burden Map
Mapping prosecution evidence against each element that must be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
Articles & Publications
Articles & Publications
A developing body of original legal analysis authored through the Knowledge Centre, organised across the areas that most often determine the course of a criminal or domestic violence matter.
Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence Allegations in New South Wales
How domestic violence allegations are determined on the evidence, and why credibility, reliability and context are often central.
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Apprehended Domestic Violence Orders
How ADVOs are made, defended and varied in New South Wales, and how the conditions operate in practice.
Read moreBail
Bail and the Unacceptable Risk Test
How bail decisions are made, the show cause threshold, and the conditions that manage identified risks.
Read moreAppeals
Criminal and ADVO Appeals
The pathways available to challenge a decision, how appeals are determined, and the principles that apply.
Read moreEvidence
Evaluating Evidence in Criminal Matters
The categories of evidence that arise in proceedings and how each is weighed when accounts are disputed.
Read moreCredibility
How Courts Assess Credibility and Reliability
Why an honest witness may still be mistaken, and how courts weigh consistency, corroboration and context.
Read moreCriminal Procedure
Criminal Procedure and Defended Hearings
How a matter moves from charge to determination, and what happens when an allegation is contested.
Read moreSentencing
Sentencing in New South Wales
How sentencing works in NSW — the purposes, the relevant factors, and the range of available outcomes.
Read moreCommon Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
The Core Defence Philosophy
Every criminal allegation deserves careful scrutiny.
Every client deserves thorough preparation.
Every prosecution case should be tested.
The objective is not merely to react to allegations but to strategically analyse, challenge and defend them.
Our Purpose
Our Purpose
Joshua Jung established Core Defence Lawyers to provide strategic criminal defence representation while contributing meaningfully to public understanding of criminal law and domestic violence proceedings in New South Wales.
- Preparation should drive confidence.
- Standards should drive reputation.
- Experience should drive authority.
- Knowledge should drive visibility.
The objective is not to claim authority.
The objective is to deserve authority.
Contact
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