Ticket Scalping Laws in NSW: Offences of Profiting from the Resale of Event Tickets
Reports have surfaced this week that unsuspecting Taylor Swift fans have lost around $135,000 recently to concert ticket scams. Social media accounts hacked The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC’s) Scamwatch has received at least 273 reports relating to across...
Can My Employer Spy on Me at Work?
In August 2023, the story of a New South Wales woman who worked from home and was fired from her job of 18 years made media headlines and triggered debate about the use of surveillance in the workplace. Suzie Cheiko...
Traffic Offences Relating to Not Wearing a Seatbelt in New South Wales
At the end of 2023, the New South Wales Government announced that existing mobile and fixed speed cameras across the state would soon be able to detect whether drivers and passengers are wearing seatbelts and increasing enforcement measures for the offence...
Criminal Offences Relating to Terrorist Organisations, Declared Areas and Foreign Fighting
Federal Attorney- General Mark Dreyfus informed the public during a press conference on 28 December 2023 that two Australian citizens were killed during an air strike in Southern Lebanon the previous night. The nation’s chief lawyer added that the listed...
What is a Quashed Conviction in Criminal Law?
The woman who spent 20 years in prison over the deaths of her infant children has finally had her convictions for the offences of murder and manslaughter quashed by the highest criminal court in the state, the New South Wales...
The Right to Silence in New South Wales
Unlike in the United States, there is no constitutional protection for the right to silence in Australia. Rather, the fundamental centuries-old democratic principle that a person’s silence cannot be used against them at a later time has developed through ‘common...
Firearms Laws and Licences in New South Wales
There are a number of stringent rules surrounding firearm licences in New South Wales. Here’s a rundown of the rules. How can I own a firearm in NSW? In order to own, possess and/or use a firearm in New South...
Drink Driving in New South Wales: Laws, Defences and Penalties
As we head into the holiday period, it’s perhaps timely to provide a reminder that drink driving is a crime in New South Wales – one which can have serious and lasting consequences in terms ones ability to drive, their...
The Offence of Reckless Foreign Interference in Australia
A Sydney businessman accused of unlawfully selling information to Chinese spies has vehemently denied the allegations and is vowing to defend the charges. 55-year old Bondi marketing director, Alexander Csergo, was charged earlier this year with one count of reckless...
‘Stealthing’ Amounts to Sexual Assault in New South Wales
Perhaps needless to say, it is not a crime to have unprotected sexual intercourse with a consenting partner – provided of course they have reached the age of consent, have the mental capacity to provide consent and have in fact...
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