Fatally Tasering Great-Grandmothers Is Par for the Course for the NSW Police Force
“The role of a police officer seems to be growing wider and wider and we are expected to know everything about everything,” NSW police commissioner Karen Webb told Sunrise on Tuesday morning. And she added that state law enforcement officers “are...
SA Major Parties Attempt to Extinguish Climate Protest With Draconian Penalties
As the South Australian Labor and Liberal parties worked in tandem last week to rush through harsh laws to stamp out climate protests, it was as if the Malinauskas government had simply ripped a page out of the NSW playbook...
NSW Police Officer Found Guilty of Assault For Slamming Teen to the Ground
A New South Wales Police Officer has been found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after slamming a 16-year old Indigenous youth into the ground in Sydney’s inner suburbs. The defended hearing took place in Downing Centre Local Court...
The Criminal Offence of Treason: Definition, Evolution and Political Application
Treason has for hundreds of years been considered one of the most serious offences that a person can commit. Whilst the criminal offence of treason dates at least as far back as Roman times, the vagaries and inconsistencies in what...
Footage Released of NSW Police Using Excessive Force Against Elderly Woman
While the outrage that New South Wales police tasered a 95-year old dementia patient in a Cooma nursing home last week continues to simmer, another disturbing story has emerged. Footage has now surfaced of of six police officers using two...
Karen Webb’s Cop Out: Police Commissioner Won’t Watch Tasering of Elderly Woman
New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb says she ‘hasn’t’ and is adamant she ‘won’t’ watch the footage of her officers tasering an elderly woman who suffers dementia at a nursing home. The footage has been recorded on police body...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 May 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Can I Visit My Children If I Have an AVO? Whether you are allowed to live with, visit or even contact your kids will depend...
Albanese Condemns Australia to Decades of Austerity, as Bipartisan Militarisation Continues
US president Joe Biden cancelled next week’s Sydney Quad Leaders’ Summit on Wednesday. But not to worry, as China-focused security meetings are now coming so thick and fast that the next one will be around soon enough, especially with the growing...
NSW Police Taser 95-Year Old Woman in Nursing Home
An elderly New South Wales woman is fighting for her life in hospital after being tasered by police officers at a nursing home, causing her to fracture her skull as she hit the floor. Investigations into the actions of NSW...
Dodgy DNA Testing Casts Doubt on Thousands of Criminal Convictions
A scathing report handed down by a six-moth Queensland Commission of Inquiry into the state’s DNA testing methods, systems and processes has put thousands of convictions at risk of being overturned on appeal. Convicted murderer Andrew Cobby is the first who...
