“Don’t Take Advantage of Our System”: Racist Traffic Cops Lay Bare NSW Police Culture
Recently released footage shows NSW police officers driving around metropolitan Sydney, pulling people over a young woman and confronting her in such a manner that one would think she’d committed a heinous crime, rather than some minor traffic offences that...
Top 20 Legal Aid Fee Earning Law Firms in NSW
Private law firms play an important role in assisting those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to access the family law and criminal justice systems, by undertaking work for free or at a reduced rate under programs such as the Law Society’s...
Morrison Intensifies Campaign to Silence Australians
“Apocalyptic in tone. It brooks no compromise. It’s all or nothing. Alternative views are not permitted.” One could be forgiven for thinking these statements were a description of Scott Morrison’s religious beliefs, if they weren’t actually his own words. As...
NSW Police Watchdog: No Teeth and Underfunded
The NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (or LECC) is already considered to be a largely ineffective police watchdog, without sufficient funds or human resources to investigate complaints. The body has no power to discipline officers, and can only recommend that...
Sparked by the Cronulla Riots: NSW Police Emergency Public Disorder Powers
Groups of young Anglo Australians began congregating along southern Sydney’s North Cronulla Beach at around 8 am on Sunday, 11 December 2005. Drinking heavily, cooking barbeques and draped in Union Jacks, the crowd had grown to around 5,000 strong by...
Another Catholic Priest Guilty of Sexually Abusing Children
Another priest is behind bars as a result of complaints received in the lead up to the 2014 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. James Joseph Cunneen has been found guilty in Parramatta District Court of 10...
“Systemic Unlawfulness”: An Interview With Dr Vicki Sentas on Police Powers
Unsurprisingly, the recently released Rethinking Strip Searches by NSW Police report drew the ire of the force. Commissioned by the Redfern Legal Centre, the UNSW report caused reigning state police commissioner Mick Fuller to criticise it very publicly. At a...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 28 October to 3 November 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Water Demands of Companies Trump the Needs of Local Communities Governments are prioritising the water demands of corporations over the needs of local communities. Click...
Bully Cops Should Remain on the Force, Police Watchdog finds
New South Wales police officers are increasingly acting as ‘a law unto themselves’ with an ever-increasing number of reports emerging of officers engaging in serious misconduct. Bullies in blue uniforms A recent inquiry by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC)...
Mainstream Media Fights for Own Freedom, But Not for Assange’s
Major Australian mainstream media outlets joined forces a fortnight ago to launched the Right to Know campaign. It aims to see public interest journalism decriminalised, and safeguards for whistleblowers enhanced. This unprecedented display of unity has seen The Guardian, the...
