Protesting Perrottet’s Prejudice: An Interview With CARR’s April
The coming of ultraconservative Dominic Perrottet does not bode well for the progressive and diverse community of the nation’s “premier state”. Indeed, it tends towards the reactionary 1950s vision of a lost Australia that prime minister Scott Morrison conveys. Both...
NSW Police Officer Sent to Prison for Lying in Court
A New South Wales Police Officer has been sentenced to imprisonment for unlawfully arresting a woman and lying about the details of her arrest. Senior Constable Mark Follington was sentenced to a minimum jail term of 18 months. He violently...
Victoria Police Settles Brutality Case for $11.75 Million
Victoria Police has agreed to settle a case of brutality for $11.75 million - an amount which will be paid from public funds. In 2017, Chris Karadaglis was at home, alone, listening to music when police knocked on his front...
With No Bill of Rights, Kassam v Hazzard Was Bound to Fail: An Interview With Professor George Williams
NSW Supreme Court Justice Robert Beech-Jones delivered his ruling on the Kassam versus Hazzard case, which raised close to a dozen grounds contesting the validity of public health order restrictions, as well as vaccine mandates, which have recently been imposed...
Legislating to End the Forced Removals of First Nations Children in NSW
The policy of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families is common to the settler colonial nations that were established by the British Empire, which are today known as the United States, Canada and Australia. In this country, the practice...
What is a ‘Conspiracy’ in the Commonwealth Criminal Law?
A Sydney man accused of serious drug offences is on the run from the police after allegedly disabling his ankle monitor while on bail. Northern Beaches restauranter Mostafa Baluch is alleged to have financed a major cocaine importation syndicate. He...
Workers Push Back Against Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates
More than 100 people have joined a legal challenge in Victoria against the state’s mandated vaccination policies. The policy of requiring workers in certain industries to obtain COVID-19 vaccinations has forced millions of authorised workers including construction workers, teachers, aged...
Morrison Is Detaining Refugees With Compromised Health Inside COVID Hotspot
As of Sunday evening, 23 of the 46 Medevac refugees currently being held long-term in the Park Hotel in the Melbourne inner city suburb of Carlton have contracted the Delta strain of the COVID-19 virus. Unlike other COVID outbreaks occurring...
Jury Trials and Defended Hearings Set to Resume in Greater Sydney
District Court jury trials and Local Court defended hearings are set to resume in Greater Sydney, after nearly four months of delays. At the start of the pandemic last year, courthouses all over the country had to close, leaving those...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 18 to 24 October 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Supreme Court Rejects Challenges to Public Health Orders The court dismissed all of the challenges on all grounds, finding that the government’s COVID restrictions...
