Criminal Conviction Recorded Against Child Over Brutal Attack
The New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal has reversed a judge’s decision not to record a conviction after a 15-year old teenage girl who pleaded guilty to charges including take and detain with the intention of obtaining an advantage,...
Boycott Beijing’s Sportswashing: An Interview With Australia Tibet Council’s Dr Zoe Bedford
The Australia Tibet Council, and other human rights groups, staged a rally out the front of the Channel 7 studios in Sydney’s Martin Place last Friday. Those demonstrating were calling out the television network for its part in broadcasting the Beijing...
Mining Giant Under Fire for Workplace Toxicity, Social Irresponsibility and Environmental Destruction
Mining giant Rio Tinto has vowed to implement the recommendations of a review into its toxic workplace culture, but in the eyes of many Australians, the company will have to do much much more if it is to garner confidence...
Should Child Sex Offenders Be Allowed to Rely on Otherwise Good Character?
The weight given to character references as a consideration in sentencing is at the heart of a battle brewing in Tasmania between a victim of sexual assault and legal groups. The issue has come under the spotlight in the context of...
Australia Fails on OPCAT Implementation to Detriment of Those Inside
The nation of Australia has a stark prison problem. As Britain began its takeover, the premise was a penal colony on an empty island at the other end of the Earth, and whilst the pillaging of land and resources from the...
Victoria Police Accused of Crime and Corruption
A new corruption scandal has engulfed the Victorian Police force, with an officer being charged with 87 criminal offences and several others under investigation over allegations of lying obtain search warrants. The allegations are believed to affect more than a...
COVID Positive Inmates Try to Avoid Detection, as Hundreds Infected Inside
According to Justice Action coordinator Brett Collins, the system Corrective Services NSW is employing in dealing with COVID-19 cases within the state’s prison system is leading to a number of prisoners, who believe they’ve contracted the virus, to avoid the testing...
Only Fully Vaccinated Participants Can Attend Supreme Court Trials
The Supreme Court of NSW has recently put in place a number of protocols in relation to criminal proceedings. The new measures are intended to protect the health and safety of courthouse workers, as well as legal teams, witnesses, the...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 24 to 30 January 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Another Country Makes it a Crime Not to Have a COVID-19 Vaccine Austria joins a small list of nations to make it a criminal offence...
Julian Assange Wins Right to Petition Supreme Court to Block Extradition
Julian Assange has won the right to petititon the United Kingdom Supreme Court to reconsider a recent High Court ruling which paves the way for his extradition to the United States, where he faces the rest of his life behind...
