Is it a Crime to Help Another Avoid Arrest or Conviction?
Wanting to help a close friend or loved-one is a natural inclination for anyone with a heart. But when it comes to assisting a person evade being arrested or charged with, or convicted of, a criminal offence, your selfless deed...
Sydney Trans Rights Activists Protest UK TERF Kellie-Jay Keen: In Pictures
Sydney trans rights activists and antifascists gathered in Victoria Park on Saturday to rally against an event put on by prominent UK transphobe and far-right figure Kellie-Jay Keen, who’s currently on the Australian Let Women Speak Tour, which involves a...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 March 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Honour Killings: Committing Murder to Restore Reputation The killing of a person to protect the perceived dignity of a family is seen as honourable in...
Catholic Church Delivers ‘Low Blow’ to Avoid Responsibility for Child Sexual Abuse
The Catholic church has delivered what’s been described as a ‘pretty low blow’ in order to avoid paying compensation to survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The Marist Brothers is arguing in court that it is unable to defend civil proceedings...
Sydney Animal Liberationists Call on Government to End Lawful Systemic Abuses
Sydney’s Belmore Park was awash with animal rights activists last Saturday, 4 March, as they gathered, just weeks before the NSW state election, for the Sydney Animal Rights March to protest against the systemic abuse of animals under Australian law....
Stop the Cultural Genocide: Sydney’s Tibetan Community Rallies Against Colonial Schools
Tibetans rallied in Sydney’s Martin Place on Friday, 10 March, marking 64 years since the 1959 Tibetan Uprising, which saw thousands gather in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to protest China’s consolidating of its control over its neighbouring nation, after...
Hillsong Church Accused of Financial Crimes
The beleaguered Hillsong Church is under fire again, this time facing allegations of misusing funds in conduct that has the potential to amount to obtaining a benefit by deception - which is a type of fraud, as well as money...
What Drug Diversion Programs Are Available in New South Wales?
If you have been charged with a drug offence or your offending is related to drug-related issues, you may be able to avoid traditional criminal justice processes through caution or diversion schemes. Here’s what you need to know. Cannabis Cautioning...
There’s a Dire Need for a National Forensic Science Authority
Sue Neill-Fraser is currently living in the Tasmanian community under strict parole condtions, including having to wear an ankle bracelet, which will continue on for another decade, in relation to the murder of her de facto partner Bob Chappell on...
Locked Up for Telling the Truth: Activist Stephen Langford on Rising Authoritarianism
Sydney activist Stephen Langford was arrested on 2 March, over having stuck several pieces of A4 paper - each with an 1816 NSW governor Lachlan Macquarie directive printed upon it - on a statue of the same man that’s situated at...
