A Photographic Deliberation Upon Kolkata’s Controversial Hand-Pulled Rickshaws
While NSW remains tightly regulated in terms of transportation, even outlawing e-Scooters on roads and road-related areas, there are a range of options overseas. Kolkata’s hand-pulled rickshaws are something of an institution in the city of joy. Known in Bengali...
Police to Investigate Suspicious Death of Indigenous Man in Police Custody
An internal investigation has been commenced after an Indigenous man died in a police watchhouse shortly after his arrest. According to the Queensland Police Service (QPS), the 51-year old was taken into custody in Kowanyama - a small community in...
“In India, We’re All Advocates”: Photographs of the Legal System in Guwahati, Assam
Lawyers are called ‘advocates’ in India, they’re called ‘attorneys’ in the US, and so-called ‘solicitors’ in Australia are now in the courts daily, so why does there remain a distinction between ‘solicitors’ and ‘barristers’. Sydney Criminal Lawyers bumped into a...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 November 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Law, Penalties and Defences for Offensive or Disorderly Conduct on an Aircraft A man has been sentenced after unzipping his trousers and urinating on...
Police Claim to Have Identified Medibank Cyber-Criminals
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claims to have identified the group responsible for the Medibank cyber-attack and subsequent data leaks to the dark web, and is promising the suspects will face the full force of the law. But this is cold...
The Evolution of Responses to Domestic Violence in Modern Society
The term domestic violence commonly refers to abuse by one spouse, or de-facto or intimate partner, against another, but also encompasses such conduct against a person’s child, parent, grandparent or sibling. Historically, such violence has been characterised by verbal, physical...
Australian Government Acknowledges First Nations Sovereignty to Senator Thorpe
“First Nations people have been sovereign people of these lands for thousands and thousands of generations. They - we - are sovereign people,” explained Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe to a panel of Attorney General Department representatives, who’d been skirting around...
COP-OUT-27 Albanese: The Flipside to Morrison on the Pro-Fossil Fuel Coin
COP27, or the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, is currently taking place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. And guess who’s not going to make it, our prime minister Anthony Albanese. Why? Because he’s got more important matters...
Queensland Police to Get Random Stop and Search Powers
Subject to limited exceptions such as at airports and during certain events, Australian law enforcement agencies are required to have a suspicion on reasonable grounds that a person has committed, or is committing, an offence, or that other dangerous circumstances...
Thugs in Blue Uniforms: Raptor Squad Raid Party, Assault Students and Trash House
The officers making up Raptor Squad, the formerly known as Strike Force Raptor, have long been known to be a bunch of thugs in blue uniforms, equipped with handguns and tasers, who, for some reason, are permitted to run riot, despite...
