National Security Law Permitting the Secret Trial of Witness J Is Under Scrutiny
There has been a sustained national debate about whistleblower prosecutions over the last few years, with a chief concern being the national security laws that permit the trials of Witness K, Bernard Collaery and David McBride to be shrouded in...
NSW Parliament to Consider Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility to 14
NSW continues to lockup children as young as 10 years old. Indeed, the entire nation of Australia does. And rather than term it as imprisonment, it’s sanitised as youth justice. Over 2019-20, this state detained 105 children 13 years or...
Class Action Launched Over Illegal Strip Searches
A class action lawsuit has been launched on behalf of young people who were unlawfully strip searched at the Splendour in the Grass music festival in 2018. In 2019, the New South Wales Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) began an...
Litigating Against Police Misconduct: An Interview With ISUEPOLICE’s Luke Brett Moore
Being approached by police with a sniffer dog as you get off the train, and then being taken behind a screen and ordered to strip naked by armed officers sounds like something that would happen living under an authoritarian regime...
Prime Time for a Federal Bill of Rights: NSWCCL’s Pauline Wright on Protecting Freedoms
Around 90 national security bills have been passed at the federal level since the 2001 twin towers attacks in New York. Draconian in their reach, these laws are said to target terrorists, however they actually encroach upon the rights and...
Hazzard Seeks to Extend His Pandemic Powers Until 2023
The NSW Health Minister wants to extend emergency powers across the state until as late as October 2023. The proposition has angered a number of coalition MPs who believe that doing so is an unnecessary over-reach. Currently, the emergency powers...
Animal Justice Party Tables Laws to Prevent Convenience Killings of Dogs
The extended 2021 NSW lockdown saw heightened fears sweep across the community. But the kneejerk decision of Bourke Shire Council to kill 15 dogs in its custody, as something of an attempt to prevent virus transmission, was resoundingly seen as...
Dutton Confirms Blindly Following the US into a “Devastating” War With China
Defence minister Peter Dutton continues to heighten the likelihood of warring on China with the US, as, over the weekend, he told the Australian that Beijing has been clear about taking action against Taiwan, and “it would be inconceivable” not...
2021 SCL Criminal Law Scholarship: Encouraging Students Who Are Passionate About Criminal Law
Applications for this year’s Sydney Criminal Lawyers Criminal Law Scholarship are open until midnight on 30 November 2021, and final as well as penultimate year law students in New South Wales and the ACT are encouraged to apply. About the...
‘Zoe’s Law’ Introduced to New South Wales Parliament
At Christmas time in 2009, Brodie Donegan was eight months pregnant with her daughter-to-be Zoe when she was struck down by a car driven by a drunk driver. While Brodie survived, Zoe tragically didn’t. The driver received a sentence of...
