Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 September 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sentence Reduced as Judge Failed to Find that Immediate Admissions Count as Assistance to Police The appeal court found the sentencing judge was in error...
Australia, Canada and UK Recognise Palestine as a State
On 21 September 2025, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom joined 151 of 193 member states of the United Nations in recognising Palestine as a sovereign state. And while the move is intended to pressure Israel into putting an end...
The Offence of Producing or Distributing Deepfake Porn Without Consent in NSW
The law is often playing catch-up when it comes to regulating emerging technologies, and taking action against their misuse. And according to Australian law-makers, the nefarious use of deepfake porn is an example of this. New legislation Following the lead...
What is the Legal Definition of Genocide?
On 16 September 2025, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Palestine (the Genocide Commission) released a 72-page report which found that Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fulfils the definition of genocide in international law....
Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza Satisfy the Legal Definition of Genocide
Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip confirmed a United Nations report released on 16 September 2025, which, coming close to two years into the mass murder and starvation program, is considered a turning point as...
The Offence of Indecently Interfering with a Body in New South Wales
Cindy’s Law is that which enables the conviction of a person for a sexual offence or an offence concerning conduct with a corpse without the need to establish whether the conduct occurred whilst the person was alive or deceased. The...
Upsurge in White Nationalism Signifies the Deep Divisions in Australian Society
The reemergence of the “Freedom movement” rallying on city streets twice over the last fortnight involved an outpouring of antiimmigration sentiment coming from the mainly white Australian crowd that had not been apparent during its initial mobilisations during the COVID...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 8 to 14 September 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Ease With Which Criminals Acquire Firearms Renews Calls for Additional Safeguards A recent finding that regulatory gaps have enabled criminal groups to obtain legally...
Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings Signify a Further Erosion of International Law
The targeted military strike on a boat in the southern Caribbean that killed 11 people, on order of US president Donald Trump, after it had departed from Venezuela on Tuesday 2 September 2025, has been taken as a significant departure...
Antisemitism Envoy’s Refusal to Criticise Neo-Nazis Reveals Her Role is a Ruse
The official version of events is that Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal has come up with a plan to prevent a crisis in Jewish prejudice in the public sphere. The truth on the ground is that arch-Zionist...
