The Law, Penalties and Defences Relating to Money Laundering in New South Wales
A Sydney millionaire has been arrested and charged after police claim to have found $7 million dollars in a backyard bunker. Well known businessman, 39-year old Hugo Jacobs was arrested at Sydney Airport before boarding a flight to Dubai after...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 June 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Can Police In NSW Search Through Your Phone Without a Warrant? The rules when it comes to police seizing and searching through mobile phones without...
Extinction Rebellion Shuts Down Nation’s Largest Port, With Union Approval
A cadre of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists braved the pelting rain on 10 June to successfully shut down the transport of liquid fuel coming out of Port Botany for over four hours. It was the coldest NSW day for 37...
Government to Pay $1.8 Billion Over Illegal Robodebt Extortion Scheme
A Federal Court judge has approved a $1.8 billion settlement for victims of the Federal Government’s illegal Robodebt recovery scheme, while at the same time delivering a scathing assessment of the government’s failure in ‘public administration’. The approval signals the...
Dungays Take NSW Government to the United Nations, Backed by Legal Heavyweights
Aunty Leetona Dungay has resolved to take both the Australian and the NSW governments to the United Nations to seek justice in relation to the killing of her son David Dungay Junior at the hands of Long Bay Gaol prison...
Federal Government Continues ‘Publicly Funded Torture’ of Biloela Family
As yet another petition does the rounds on social media, aimed at putting pressure on the Federal Government to release the Tamil Family that has been detained on Christmas Island for years, the new Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has...
PM’s Continuing ‘War on Drugs’ Rhetoric Ignores That There’s a Better Way
During an 8 June press conference, PM Scott Morrison called on Australians to reject illicit drug use, as “it fuels organised crime in this country, as well as “human misery” here and in many “parts of the world”. The prime...
What is a Conditional Release Order in New South Wales?
On 24 September 2018, the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Amendment (Community-based Orders and Other Matters) Regulation 2018 came into effect. The Regulation amended the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (the Act) by, among other things, replacing the old “section 10(1)(b) good...
The Twisted Affairs of the Australian Soldier Accused of War Crimes in Afghanistan
Suggestions of unethical conduct, including an undisclosed conflict of interest, have delayed the defamation case brought by a former Australian soldier against three newspapers. Former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith’s claim that the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times...
Stop-the-Boats Morrison Continues to Brutalise Sick Australian-Born Infant
Right now, 3-year-old Australian-born girl Tharnicaa Murugappan is undergoing treatment for a blood condition in a Perth hospital, because our Pentecostal PM and some of his underlings have been slowly torturing and depriving her in immigration detention for more than...
