NSW Government’s Relentless Attack on Our Right to Protest
The language used by NSW agriculture minister Adam Marshall as he introduced the Right to Farm Bill 2019 was somewhat suspect when he asserted that the legislation would “enshrine in law a farmer’s right to farm their land, to grow...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 September to 6 October 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Wodak & Shoebridge on Scipione’s Talk of Drug Law Reform Our state’s former top cop says he now supports the depenalisation of drugs. Click here...
Why is White Ribbon Australia Shutting Its Doors?
With our nation in the grips of a domestic violence epidemic and the world still reeling from hundreds of thousands of allegations on the back of the global #MeToo movement, it’s difficult to fathom that White Ribbon Australia is shutting...
How Cognitive Bias Can Lead to Wrongful Convictions
How many of us have watched reports of high-profile cases on the news and, when the suspect is found guilty, declared that we “knew all along”? Or been concerned about walking down a dark alleyway, but not given a second...
The NSW Police Force Has a (Strip) Search Quota System
KPIs and quotas are performance indicators that gained prominence in the late 1980s. They involve management setting ever increasingly high performance targets, which can often fail to be grounded in reality and ultimately, produce poor-quality results. In everyday life, key...
Sydney Criminal Solicitor Charged with Accessory to Murder
A criminal lawyer has been arrested and charged in relation to the murder of Craig Anderson, who was shot and killed at Doonside in Western Sydney earlier this year. The lawyer, Ms Alev Oncu, has been charged with accessory after...
Teen Charged with Cruelty to Kangaroos
A 19-year old man has been charged with animal cruelty after killing 19 Kangaroos in Tura Beach, on the New South Wales southern coast. It is alleged the man went on a killing spree over the weekend, spotlighting the animals...
NSW Greens Move to Legislate for Life-Saving Pill Testing Services
During the last music festival season, five young Australians died in drug-related circumstances at NSW events. And while the death toll was high, the lost lives were no anomaly, and the potential for more casualties is ever present. Decades of...
A Crime of Compassion: An Interview With Green Light’s Nicholas Morley
Against the backdrop of the ACT having just passed laws to legalise cannabis use, and the pending three year anniversary of the government’s highly derided cannabis medicine licensing scheme, comes a documentary that deals with the reality of medicinal cannabis...
Free Susan Neill-Fraser: An Innocent Woman Behind Bars
A news report dated 9 October 2009 states that Susan Neill-Fraser had appeared in a Tasmanian court that day, regarding the murder of her de facto partner of 18 years Bob Chappell. At the time, she was on remand following...
