Roadside Drug Testing Devices Are Unreliable, Study Reveals
Over the last five years, as the NSW Liberal Nationals government has been ramping up roadside drug testing - doubling the number of tests to 200,000 by next year - so too has the chorus of criticism about the testing...
Watchdog to Investigate Strip Search of Teen
The New South Wales Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) is set to investigate the strip search of a sixteen year old girl at last year’s Splendour in the Grass music festival, as part of a public hearing into strip searches....
The Colonisation of First Nations Land Is Far From Over
“It wasn’t me. That happened 200 years ago,” is a refrain everyone who lives in this country has heard an Anglo Australian remark at one time or another, when the subject of the dispossession of this continent’s First Nations people...
Should Aussies Avoid Bali?
The Indonesian President has backtracked on introducing controversial new laws that would make sex outside marriage a criminal offence for both locals and tourists. The proposed laws have gained a lot of attention online, and have triggered debate in many...
Changes to the 40KM/H “Slow Down, Move Over” Road Rule
As of this Thursday, the year-old New South Wales rule requiring vehicles to slow down to 40 km/h when passing emergency vehicles on the side of the road will be changed. Since 1 September 2018, the “slow down, move over”...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 16 to 22 September 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Dozens Charged with Participating in a Criminal Group Up to 40 people have been charged over an alleged day-care fraud ring, which has been described...
Poisoning Offences in New South Wales
A judge in Downing Centre District Court has sentenced a 22-year old woman to a full term of 6 years in prison with a minimum of 3 years for endangering her baby’s life by administering a harmful medication. The woman...
Tibetans Lobby Canberra to Make China Accountable on Rights Abuses
Freedom in the World 2019 ranks Chinese-occupied Tibet the second most oppressed region on the globe, following war-devastated Syria. Indeed, 70 years under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule, has left the once autonomous nation one of the most heavily policed...
Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System
17-year old Stephen Downing had learning difficulties and a reading age of 11. After nine hours of intense police interrogation, he eventually confessed to the murder of a 32-year old legal secretary. There was just one small problem: he didn’t...
David Eastman to Sue Over Wrongful Murder Conviction
An ACT Supreme Court jury found David Eastman not guilty last November of the assassination-style killing of AFP assistant commissioner Colin Winchester. The police officer was gunned down as he was getting out of his car in the Canberra suburb...
