Federal Government Agency Issues Warning About QR Codes
Quick Response (QR) codes have become ingrained into our everyday lives. They were introduced across New South Wales in 2020 as part of the State Government’s response to Covid-19, offering a simple, effective way for business to collect information from...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 4 to 10 January 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW DPP Prosecuting Guidelines Part 2: Prosecution’s Duty of Disclosure, Immunities, Informants, Victims of Crime and Vulnerable Witnesses An outline of prosecution policies relating to...
The Offence of Contravening an Apprehended Violence Order in NSW
The former deputy mayor of Auburn, Salim Majer, has found himself in hot water again, this time accused of contravening an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) taken out for the protection of his former-partner. Police applied for the AVO last year,...
Donald Trump Permanently Suspended from Twitter
Scenes of the mob attack on US Congress earlier this week shocked the world. Five people have died as a result of Trump supporters breaking into the US Capitol Building last week disrupting the certification of Joe Biden as the...
I’ve been issued with a traffic fine. What should I do next?
Red light cameras, speeding and using a mobile phone while at the wheel are all examples of driving offences in New South Wales which lead to hefty fines, while parking in the wrong spot or longer than permitted can also...
Morrison’s Proposed Data Sharing Bonanza Involves Your Personal Details
Over recent years, numerous publications have declared data the most valuable resource on the planet, even trumping oil. And when the Coalition government became aware of this, it commenced rubbing its hands together in glee, as it found itself sitting...
Desperate Detainees Riot on Christmas Island Over Indefinite Detention
Two of the three compounds currently in operation at the Christmas Island immigration facility were set ablaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning, as a small number of detainees protested against their unjust and indefinite detention. The demonstrators are...
Where Has All the Legal Medicinal Cannabis Gone?
A patient who uses medicinal cannabis to treat their ailments recently remarked in a social media forum that at present it’s taking their chemist at least two weeks from payment to fill their prescription for cannabis medicine. “They wonder why...
The Indefinite Detention Achilles Heel: An Interview With Human Rights For All’s Alison Battisson
The Magna Carta is a charter of rights that was drafted by the court of King John of England in 1215. And to this day, the eight-century-old document provides the foundational legal principles of our modern Australian democracy, including that...
Are Australia’s State Border Closures Justified?
A Victorian man intends to sue the State Government after being detained in quarantine. John-Lee Berridge says Victorian health authorities made a mistake about quarantine and he should not have been detained when Victoria suddenly shut the border to New...
