Police to Investigate Bigotry by Police on Social Media
An investigation has been ordered by Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll into a Facebook page where racist, sexist and homophobic posts were allegedly published by Queensland Police officers is now underway. The page was set up by a senior officer...
UK Gives US Permission to Appeal Decision Not to Extradite Assange, Despite Key Witness Lying
The UK’s High Court of Justice granted the United States government permission to appeal the January decision of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court not to permit the extradition of Australian journalist Julian Assange on limited grounds. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser decided...
The Offence of Participation in a Criminal Group in New South Wales
30-year old Dylan Farrell, who once played for the St George Illawarra Dragon and South Sydney Rabbitohs, has been arrested in Nowra, south-east New South Wales. Police say he was arrested at around 8.30am on Thursday, 8 July 2021 when...
The Offence of Supplying a Large Commercial Quantity of Prohibited Drugs in NSW
Two New South Wales men are facing charges for drug offences after police allegedly seized $12 million worth of crystal methamphetamine, or ‘ice’, and cocaine in Sydney’s South West over the weekend. Police allege the two men were arrested during...
Heavy-Handed COVID Policing: The Discriminatory Sweep of Southwestern Sydney
On 3 July, the initial, and thought to be only, Saturday of the “soft” Sydney lockdown, premier Gladys Berejiklian at her 11am announcement, jovially empathised with locals about the weather being “great” and asked those exercising outdoors to keep to...
The Rules Relating to District Court Appeals to Set Aside Criminal Convictions: Huynh v R
A recent decision by the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal (NSWCCA) explains the law when it comes to the type of appeal to file when seeking non-conviction orders such as mental health orders, dismissals and good behaviour bonds...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 5 to 11 July 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Assaulting a Police Officer in New South Wales Police arrested a man who tried to intervene while a female store owner was...
The Great Dividing Range Between Government and the People
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that public trust in government is vital in times of crises. And during the current global health emergency, the lack of belief in the political class and its institutions has been stark....
The Increasing Militarisation of Australia and the Cold War With China Effect
The twenty year war in Afghanistan is coming to an end on 11 September. That is at least from the perspective of the western allied forces that have been stationed in the Central Asian region since the US-led invasion that...
NRL Cracks Down on COVID Breaches
State of Origin Player Jai Arrow faces a $35,000 fine and a two-game suspension after allegedly breaching a public health order by bringing an ‘unregistered guest’, understood to be a dancer, back to the Gold Coast hotel where Queensland players...
