In What Circumstances Can I Change My Plea of Guilty to Not Guilty in NSW?
A man who unexpectedly pleaded guilty to murdering American Scott Johnson in 1988, has had his conviction quashed on appeal and will now face trial for murder in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Scott Johnson’s naked body was...
Gunpowder to Genocide: A History of Violence by the Use of Firearms
Amnesty International estimates that more that 500 people a day die worldwide each day as a result of violence involving the use of firearms (which the organisation calls ‘guns’); a figure which excludes killings in war zones. The human rights...
Police Overreach: Officers Harass Patrons Inside Sydney Events Venue
Anti-drug dog campaign Sniff Off reported on 12 November 2022 that it had received reports from Oxford Art Factory patrons that NSW police officers were requiring them to identify themselves via the use of their mobile phones, even though venue security had...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 14 to 20 November 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Police to Investigate Suspicious Death of Indigenous Man in Police Custody An internal police investigation has been launched into the unexplained death of a man...
NZ Delegation Puts Australian Deportation Abuses on UN Torture Agenda
A delegation of high-level Australian officials appeared before the UN Committee Against Torture last week to participate in the nation’s four yearly review on how its tracking in terms of adherence to the 1984 Convention Against Torture (CAT), as well...
World Leaders Sign Declaration to Introduce COVID Vaccine Passports
At this year’s G20 Summit in Indonesia, the twenty participating world leaders signed a declaration to introduce vaccine passports for their respective jurisdictions, with the stated intention of creating a global verification system to facilitate safe international travel. What is...
Talking Rights and Mobilisation With India’s Durbar Sex Worker Collective
Sex work is said to be the oldest profession on Earth. However, unlike jurisdictions such as NSW, where laws are in place that serve to uphold the rights of sex workers, often in other regions around the globe, sex workers are...
The Criminal Offence of Coercive Control in New South Wales
A Bill has passed both houses of the New South Wales parliament which makes it a discrete criminal offence punishable by up to 7 years in prison for a current or former intimate partner to exert coercive control over another....
With McBride and Boyle Fried, Dreyfus Commits to Whistleblower Protections
Federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus delivered the keynote speech at the Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference in Sydney on Wednesday, in which he promised to introduce a bill to “make priority amendments” to the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013, by the...
Witch-Hunting Is Gender-Based Violence: Talking Women’s Rights With India’s North East Network
Witch-hunting is a form of communal violence that continues in some parts of the world, including the state of Assam in Northeast India. It almost always targets women, can act as punishment for tragedies with no direct relation to the...
