Justified or a Step Too Far? Sydney Council Bans Smoking in Public
In 2014, we wrote about the additional rules placed on the sale and consumption of tobacco across the nation, and asked the question: Will smoking ever be banned in Australia? Now in 2019, it seems this could occur in the...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 22 to 28 July 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Unlawfully Possessing or Using Identification Information in New South Wales A woman charged with using the identities of real people to facilitate a multi-million dollar...
The Offence of Obtaining a Benefit by Deception
A former senior executive of Seven West Media, the owners of television Channel 7, was granted conditional bail on 25 July 2019 after being charged with multiple offences arising from his alleged misappropriation of $8 million in company funds. 57-year...
Australia’s Future Is Nationwide Facial Recognition Surveillance
Around one million Uyghur people are being detained right now in political re-education camps in China. This mass incarceration program of the majority Muslim people is being carried out in their homeland, which is currently referred to as the Chinese...
Tax Office Attacks Client Legal Privilege
During his speech at the Law Society’s 2016 Opening of Term Dinner, NSW Chief Justice Tom Bathurst made clear he had identified 397 state laws that encroach upon three fundamental legal protections alone – the presumption of innocence, the right...
Sydney Teacher Accused of Sexual Offences Against a Student
A Sydney teacher will face Downing Centre Court next month over allegations of having sexual intercourse with a student. The teacher is currently on conditional bail and has been stood down by his employer, Raddam House; an exclusive private school...
NSW Government Criminalises Animal Rights Activism
The Berejiklian government announced last Monday that it’s about to make amendments to NSW biosecurity laws, which are designed to prevent “vegan vigilantes” trespassing upon farms and slaughterhouse properties. Taking effect on 1 August, these new ag-gag measures will allow...
Truth-Telling Before Treaty-Making: An Interview With Ken Canning
In late May, fourteen Australian organisations came out in support of the constitutionally-enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament. This was the proposal contained within the Referendum Council’s May 2017 Statement from the Heart. Amongst the organisations that issued the response of...
Dutton Argues Against Calls for Drug Decriminalisation
NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has granted the ice inquiry commissioner Professor Dan Howard SC the extension he requested for the tabling of his report, so as to allow more time to consider the decriminalisation of the personal possession and use...
Preventing Evictions: An Interview With The First Nations Homelessness Project’s Jennifer Kaeshagen
Western Australia has the highest rate of public housing evictions in the country. Over the period July 2016 to April 2018, 1,242 households were ordered to vacate their public housing property, with extreme poverty being the major driver behind these...
