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Sydney Criminal Lawyers Website Incorporates Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to revolutionise the way we search for, and the speed by which we obtain, targeted information, as well as the way programs and a range of images, videos and other materials are generated, education is...

In What Circumstances Can NSW Police Officers Discharge Tasers?

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Australians are united in their outrage over the killing of 95-year-old great grandmother Clare Nowland, following her tasering by a senior constable of the New South Wales Police Force, Kristian White, at Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in Cooma. Prosecutors...

Neo-Nazis Openly Demonstrating on the Australian Streets Is a Dire Concern

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Nazis have existed in Australian suburbia going back at least as far as the 1980s. The early 90s movie Romper Stomper is testament to that. But these groups were fractured and unorganised. And whilst committing the odd act of vandalism or...

Thorpe Warns of Rising Custody Deaths, as Underfunded Aboriginal Legal Services Shut

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The Aboriginal Legal Service shut down operations in thirteen regional areas of NSW on 15 May of this year, not due to there being any lack of demand for its services, but due to the fact that federal funding has not...

‘Representations’ Can Result in Criminal Charges Being Withdrawn

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Olympic boxer Harry Garside has a nervous wait ahead after his criminal defence lawyers told a court this week they have made formal representations to the New South Wales Police Force requesting that the domestic violence-related proceedings against their client...

NSW Police Officer Charged with Assault Over Fatal Tasering of Great-Grandmother

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The New South Wales police officer who tasered a 95-year old woman at an aged care facility has been charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, after the great-grandmother who suffered from dementia died in hospital as a result of...

Fatally Tasering Great-Grandmothers Is Par for the Course for the NSW Police Force

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“The role of a police officer seems to be growing wider and wider and we are expected to know everything about everything,” NSW police commissioner Karen Webb told Sunrise on Tuesday morning. And she added that state law enforcement officers “are...

SA Major Parties Attempt to Extinguish Climate Protest With Draconian Penalties

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As the South Australian Labor and Liberal parties worked in tandem last week to rush through harsh laws to stamp out climate protests, it was as if the Malinauskas government had simply ripped a page out of the NSW playbook...

NSW Police Officer Found Guilty of Assault For Slamming Teen to the Ground

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A New South Wales Police Officer has been found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after slamming a 16-year old Indigenous youth into the ground in Sydney’s inner suburbs. The defended hearing took place in Downing Centre Local Court...

Footage Released of NSW Police Using Excessive Force Against Elderly Woman

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While the outrage that New South Wales police tasered a 95-year old dementia patient in a Cooma nursing home last week continues to simmer, another disturbing story has emerged. Footage has now surfaced of of six police officers using two...
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