Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 8 to 14 June 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Law, Penalties and Defences for Sexual Intercourse Without Consent The Queen’s son is refuting claims that he sexually abused teenage girls. Click here to...
NSW Drug Driving Laws Are Unfair and Do Not Deter
This state’s unfair drug driving laws were a major reason why former Lismore magistrate David Heilpern retired. Over the last half decade or so, the judicial officer had built up a reputation across the Northern Rivers region for his just...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 June 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Government to Refund $720 Million Extorted Through Robodebt Following an adverse court decision and in the face of a class action lawsuit, the federal government...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 18 to 24 May 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Use of ‘Ice’ and the Criminal Justice System There are circumstances where drug addiction can be taken into account when determining the appropriate sentence....
Officer Who Punched Teen in the Head Cleared of Misconduct
Questions are being as a result of Victorian Police refusing to release details that would explain why a female police officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing after punching a 15-year old girl in the head at a pro-marijuana rally....
Illegally Strip Searching Teens Does Not Amount to “Serious Misconduct”, LECC Finds
A 16-year-old First Nations boy was walking down the main street of a major town in north western NSW on 25 November 2018, when, on seeing some police, he dropped a foil of cannabis in his possession. The youth then...
What is the Offence of Drug Supply in New South Wales?
It has been reported that at around 1.15pm, Thursday 3 April 2020, a 37-year old man from Lane Cove in the lower northern suburbs of Sydney attended a hotel on Elizabeth Street in the Sydney CBD to deliver a box...
The Next Social Justice Movement: An Interview With the Animal Defenders Office’s Tara Ward
The High Court of Australia ruled in February that footage revealing greyhound trainers illegally using live rabbits as baits was inadmissible in court, as it had been obtained unlawfully. However, subsequent resulting evidence could be permitted, so those trainers will...
Ice Inquiry Makes Recommendations, But Government Has Its Head in the Sand
In its final report, the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug “Ice” outlines that the use of methamphetamine and other similar drugs “requires compassionate responses consistent with human rights approaches, rather than punitive responses that can compound the...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 24 February to 1 March 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Police Officer Remains on Force Despite Being Guilty of Sexual Touching The sergeant has been suspended on full pay despite being found guilty of...
