The Offence of Dishonestly Obtaining a Benefit By Deception in NSW
Australian singer Guy Sebastian’s former manager has been charged with fraud, after allegedly dishonestly obtaining $1.15 million that should have been paid to the singer. Titus Day was recently arrested and charged with 61 counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage...
COVID-19 Rules: Unfairness is Leading to Business Closures
As the nation reopens now that the immediate threat presented by COVID-19 has passed, most Australian businesses are finding themselves faced with a list of new rules and regulations they must comply with in order to minimise public transmission of...
New South Wales Opens the Nation’s Largest Prison
The largest prison in Australia was opened last week. Set amongst rural plains in the Lavadia region - 12.5 kilometres southeast of the northern NSW town of Grafton - the Clarence Correctional Centre will eventually allow the state to incarcerate...
Organisers Declare Sunday’s Black Deaths in Custody Rally Will Go Ahead
This Sunday’s Stop Black Deaths in Custody-Black Lives Matter rally will go ahead, organisers announced on Tuesday afternoon. The Warrang-Sydney event will have an emphasis on being COVID-19 compliant, as well as keeping it peaceful. Hosted by Justice for David...
NSW Police Officers Are Required to Meet Quotas
New South Wales Police Chief Mick Fuller has wasted no time in justifying his new annual salary, setting a goal for his force of officers to ‘detect’ almost 300,000 crimes across the state this year. The targets, obtained under freedom...
What is the Meaning of Consent in Sexual Assault Cases?
A former NSW Police officer has been charged with sexually assaulting a colleague while he was in uniform. A District Court jury has heard that 44-year old Kristian Dieter Glaser was either on duty or had just finished work when...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 22 to 28 June 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Law, Defences and Penalties For High Range Drink Driving In New South Wales A man is accused of driving his four-year old son while...
Lawyer Secretly Prosecuted for Exposing Crimes of Australian Government
A decision in the ACT Supreme Court today (which was also a closed hearing) means that part of the trial of Former ACT Attorney-General Bernard Collaery will take place in secret. Mr Collaery and his former client, Witness K, a...
The “Protection” Era: A Settler Colonial System of Paternalistic Control
The response of the Morrison government to the recent nationwide Aboriginal deaths in custody demonstrations has been to announce that it will be adding a justice component to the Closing the Gap framework, to deal with the overrepresentation of First...
Freedom From Workplace Sexual Harassment “Is a Human Right”, Says Sydney Lawyer
A High Court-commissioned independent investigation into Dyson Heydon found that six former court staff members were sexually harassed by the former judge, who worked as a justice on the bench at Australia’s highest court for a decade ending in 2013....
