NSW Drug Driving Laws Are Unfair and Do Not Deter
This state’s unfair drug driving laws were a major reason why former Lismore magistrate David Heilpern retired. Over the last half decade or so, the judicial officer had built up a reputation across the Northern Rivers region for his just...
The Inherent Racism of Australian Police: An Interview With Policing Academic Amanda Porter
The Aboriginal Deaths in Custody movement has been reignited. Last weekend saw tens of thousands of people gather in capital cities and regional centres to protest the systemic violence in Australian policing and criminal justice systems that targets First Nations...
People Power Can Halt Gas Expansion: An Interview With Stop CSG Sydney’s Pip Hinman
On 3 June, a bill that would have imposed a statewide ban on coal seam gas (CSG) expansion passed in the upper house of NSW parliament. However, the Berejiklian goon squad made sure it appeared prematurely in the lower house...
Owners of Facebook Pages Can be Liable for Defamatory Posts by Others
When you write something about a person or business online, or even post inappropriate comments, if you don’t choose your words wisely, you risk being sued for defamation. But if someone else writes something on your own social media page,...
The Law, Penalties and Defences for Contaminating Goods in Australia
An Australian distillery has issued an urgent product recall after at least nine of their gin bottles were found to be filled with hand sanitiser. Apollo Bay Distillery, located on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, is yet to explain...
Can’t Help Themselves: An Eyewitness Account of Police Brutality After the Black Lives Matter Rally
A large protest march against police violence towards First Nations people was never going to be the top of the NSW police commissioner’s wish list. Indeed, some presume that’s why Mick Fuller moved to have the NSW Supreme Court shut...
A United NSW Demands an End to First Nations Custody Deaths and Police Brutality
At 4.33 pm on Saturday 6 June, the 50,000 demonstrators gathered at Central’s Belmore Park knelt to mark the 433 First Nations deaths in custody since 1991. It was a solemn moment, as people from all racial backgrounds united in...
The Law, Penalties and Defences for Sexual Intercourse Without Consent
For the past few years, Prince Andrew has been embroiled in allegations that he was a participant in a child sex trafficking network headed by the late American businessman Jeffrey Epstein. US prosecutors have been pursuing the Prince for some...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 June 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Government to Refund $720 Million Extorted Through Robodebt Following an adverse court decision and in the face of a class action lawsuit, the federal government...
The Offence of Unlawful Assembly in New South Wales
Tens of thousands of people took to Sydney streets over the weekend after Black Lives Matter protest organisers won a last minute battle in the New South Wales Court of Appeal. The NSW Police Force and NSW Government had joined...
