Not Guilty Verdict for NSW Police Officer Highlights Bias in Criminal Justice System
Abuse of power and the excessive use of force by police has increasingly come under the scrutiny of mainstream public discourse since the onset of the COVID-19 lockdowns saw law enforcement powers enhanced to administer pandemic restrictions. Images of Victoria...
NSW Police Officer Found Not Guilty of Assaulting Naked Teen
The police officer charged with assault after striking a restrained, naked teenager 18 times with a baton has been found not guilty. Officer Michial Greenhalgh was charged following an inquiry by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) into the arrest...
Winner of 2020 SCL Criminal Law Scholarship Announced
Ruth Lubrainschik describes herself as someone who has a “deep empathy for human struggle”, and it is this deep empathy which drives her interest in criminal law as well as her strong belief in the capacity of the law to...
Sexual Assault Allegations Plague Parliament
It’s been a tumultuous time in the halls of power in Canberra. In the past couple of weeks, five women have come forward with serious allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment. An historical sexual assault allegation by friends of...
Crown Resorts Under Fire for Underpaying Staff
Over the past few years, the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO0 has been swamped by cases of big corporations underpaying staff, including Coles, McDonald’s and 7-Eleven. While there are current regulations in the Fair Work Act to protect employees, there have...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Torture in Australia
The Brisbane Supreme Court has heard a chilling account of the final moments of Queensland couple Iuliana Triscaru and Cory Breton, whose decomposed bodies were found in a toolbox - weighed down with blocks and tyres - after it was...
The Laws, Defences and Penalties for Dog Attack Offences in New South Wales
A New South Wales Police officer is undergoing surgery after he was attacked by a dog while dealing with a domestic-related incident over the weekend. Police say when they arrived at the property in Bankstown in south-west Sydney a man...
Coalition Refuses to Act Against the Threat of Far-Right Extremism
Images capturing a group of Anglo Australian men with their shirts off standing before a burning cross in the Victorian Grampians in late January 2021 make it increasingly hard to dismiss far-right groups as simply ineffectual suburban youths with too much...
Uncle Ray Jackson on Aboriginal “Murders by Neglect” in Custody
The Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its 339 recommendations on 15 August 1991. It considered 99 First Nations custodial deaths that occurred between 1 January 1980 and 30 May 1989. “The Royal Commissioners looked at that...
Alternate Mardi Gras to March on Oxford: An Interview With Pride in Protest’s Evan Van Zijl
Due to the global pandemic, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade will take place at the Sydney Cricket Ground. However, the event’s spiritual home, Oxford Street Darlinghurst, will not be left wanting, as an alternative march is set...
