Strip Search Class Action Confirms Numerous NSW Police Strip Searches Illegal
NSW Court of Appeal Justice Dina Yehia awarded strip search class action lead plaintiff Raya Meredith $93,000 on Tuesday, while lawyers estimate her more than 3,000 co-plaintiffs could be awarded “potentially millions”, which will be the final outcome of a...
Intensive Correction Order Made Against Officer Who Illegally Shared Restricted Data
The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission has found that NSW police leading senior constable Housam Khatib, who was recently sentenced to a three year intensive correction order (ICO) over accessing and disclosing confidential police information, has indeed conducted serious misconduct, however...
The Criminal Offence of Stealing Cattle in New South Wales
New South Wales police officers from the Orana Mid-Western Police District and the Rural Crime Prevention Team (RCPT) charged individuals in respect of the offence of steal cattle on Thursday 25 September 2025, after they’d allegedly stolen a horse that...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 22 to 28 September 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Youth Crime: Prevention and Diversion Produce Better Outcomes than Punitive Measures The recent arrest of seven youths over the stabbing deaths of two boys has...
The NSW Mounted Police Has Turned Two Hundred Years Old
This month marked 200 years since the NSW mounted police was first established. The occasion was marked with a mounted police parade on Gadigal land to cross through the Sydney CBD and the public lined the city streets to mark...
Trump at the United Nations: The Mad King Appears Without His Clothes
The image of US president Donald Trump addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September 2025, as he presented a rambling egotistical, nationalistic and aggressive speech, conveyed that the international community is in deep turmoil...
The Global Sumud Flotilla Is Under Ongoing Attack from Israel
The Global Sumud Flotilla reports that as it sailed through Greek territorial waters early on 25 September 2025, it was likely to encounter further drone activity, while the EU had too warned of rising threats from the Israeli military, as...
Pseudo-Cops Enforcing Bylaws Are Starting to Appear on Australian Streets
City of Melbourne council has embarked upon a law enforcement experiment that involves security guards carrying out policing functions that on-the-beat officers usually perform to plug an inner city gap that the state government is considered to be failing to,...
NSW Police Officer Who Punched Hannah Thomas Has Been Charged with Assault
A New South Wales police officer who punched lawyer and human rights activist Hannah Thomas in her right eye has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The senior officer struck Thomas in the face as she questioned his...
Luke Moore Secures Hatrick of Successfully Suing Police
Luke Brett Moore, law graduate and strip search activist, was awarded $450,000 in respect of a civil suit against the state of NSW for malicious prosecution on 12 September 2025, after NSW police constable Daniel Keneally, the son of former...