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Established in late 2018, the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants handed down its final report this week. The inquiry delved into Victoria police’s use of criminal lawyer Nicola Gobbo as a police informant and the implications this...

Vehicle searches without a warrant are regulated by section 36 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002, which states that a police officer may, without a warrant, stop, search and detain a vehicle, if the officer “suspects on...

Personal searches without a warrant are regulated by section 21 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002, which states that a police officer may, without a warrant, stop, search and detain a person, and anything the person possesses...

Over the last two years, unlucky commuters at Sydney’s Central Station have been confronted with NSW police officers accompanied by drug dogs. Deployed at peak hour, these officers have been equipped with screens, allowing them to strip search citizens if...

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Criminal Law Scholarship 2020 Penultimate and final year law students are encouraged to apply for this year’s SCL Criminal Law Scholarship. Click...

A New South Wales man who killed his baby girl by throwing her into the Tweed River has been found not guilty of murder by reason of mental illness. Justice Helen Wilson said in her special verdict in the Supreme...

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Drug Supply Prohibition Orders: Targeting Those Who Have ‘Served Their Time’ NSW police are being given the power to arbitrarily stop, search and detain people...

NSW Police have seized more than 13,000 cannabis plants worth an estimated $40 million, in what they describe as one of the largest cannabis busts in Australia’s history. Fourteen men have been charged with a range of drug and criminal...

Random breath testing (RBT) for alcohol was introduced across Australian jurisdictions in the 70s and 80s. These laws succeeded in not only significantly reducing road fatalities, but, as a 2017 paper put it, they turned “a common practice” into a...

On the evening of 10 September, the Sniff Off Facebook page alerted its close to 85,000 followers that police officers with a drug dog had been spotted at Blacktown Station. The post noted that this was the first time a...