Guards Who Have Sex with Inmates Now Face Prison
The NSW government passed new laws last week making it a crime for prison guards to have sex with inmates. The move follows revelations mid-year regarding a number of female corrections officers who’d allegedly been engaging in sexual relations with...
Penalty for Arson to Increase in New South Wales
The NSW Parliament passed laws overnight which will increase the maximum penalty for being reckless as to whether a fire you created spreads to public land or the private land of another person, from 14 to 25 years in prison....
Is it Legal to Eat or Drink While Driving in NSW?
It has been reported that a 19-year old driver in Perth was issued with an infringement notice for $300 and three demerit points after allegedly driving while eating a bowl of breakfast cereal. The incident has triggered discussion about whether...
NSW Magistrate Faces Misconduct Hearing
A hearing commenced yesterday in the Conduct Division of the Judicial Commission of NSW into complaints that a magistrate abused her position by bullying and belittling defendants, calling on prosecutors to press additional charges against them and ordering that they...
Challenging the NSW Police Shutdown: An Interview With Bohemian Beatfreaks’ Erik Lamir-Pike
The NSW Police Force (NSWPF) is continuing what can only be described as its assault on festivals. Last Friday, it publicly announced that it was withdrawing its support for and blocking the Bohemian Beatfreaks festival that’s due to be held...
NRL Star Accused of Aggravated Sexual Assault
Things have gone from bad to worse for former Parramatta Eels Rugby League star Jarryd Hayne. It has been reported that the two time Dally M medallist and former San Francisco 49ers player - against whom civil proceedings for sexual...
Parramatta Justice Precinct: The New Heart of the Sydney’s Legal System
According to European history books, Parramatta is the second-oldest city in Australia, founded by Governor Phillip in 1788. First People had been in the area for some 30,000 years before that, referring to Parramatta as ‘Burramatta’, which means head of...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 12 to 18 November 2018
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Police Officer Who Endangered Victim Refuses to Testify An officer who leaked a domestic violence victim’s address to his ‘mate’ - the woman’s abusive ex-partner...
Despite Rising Rights Awareness, Programs of Cultural Genocide Continue Globally
Around 750,000 Rohingya’s fled across the border from their homelands in Myanmar into neighbouring Bangladesh in the last months of 2017 due to a series of attacks on their communities by government forces. Known locally as the Tatmadaw, the Myanmar...
Political Prejudice Shapes Perceptions of Crime
The political period in which you ‘came of age’ drastically influences your perception of crime decades later, according to a new study in the British Journal of Criminology. While many people alter their perception of crime over time, they are...
