Legal Question in Criminal Law in Australia

The shirt answer is no. It is actually police who charge a defendant and not the victim. This means that the decision about whether to go ahead with the case is up to police, and in many cases the police will keep going with a case even if the victim disagrees with the police allegations. This is especially the situation in domestic violence cases. The best thing to do is to obtain a statement from the alleged victim and to send it to police together with a letter requesting the case to be dropped. Good lawyers will often get cases dropped by doing this.