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Spike in Prohibited Drug Use and Associated Crime Intensifies Calls for Legalisation

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The Australian Crime Intelligence Commission has yet again consulted the nation’s sewage to find that its people had consumed more than 22.2 tonnes of crystal meth, cocaine, heroin and MDMA over the 12 months to August 2024, which is the...

Alleged Members of Criminal Group Charged with a Range of Serious Offences

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Thirteen people are facing criminal charges as police taskforces target an alleged criminal group said to be responsible for a range of serious criminal offences across Sydney. The investigation The New South Wales Crime Command’s Financial Crimes Squad Motor Unit...

NSW Police Use of Drug Dogs and Strip Searches Slammed as Ineffective and Unlawful

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Of the 82,471 strip searches NSW police performed over the ten years to 2023, only 11,136, or 13.5 percent turned up an illicit substance. Further, 6,716 of these searches followed a drug dog indication, yet only 2,713 of them, or...

Third Man Charged with Murder Over Drive-By Shooting in Sydney

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A third man has been charged with murder as investigations continue into the fatal shooting of a 65-year old woman in Sydney’s south west.  The incident Campbelltown City Police Area Command established Strike Force Apslawn following a drive-by shooting which...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 to 29 June 2025

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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Bail Centralisation and the Virtual Bail Court: NSW Staggers into a Reform Overreach The local knowledge that country magistrates have in relation to bail decisions...

Drug Supply Charges Brought Over Alleged Supply of Fake Cocaine

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Detectives from the New South Wales Organised Crime Squad have laid criminal charges against three people accused of belonging to a South-American network that travelled to Sydney last month to off-load counterfeit cocaine to local crime groups. The charges  Strike...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 2 to 8 June 2025

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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Engaging in Unqualified Legal Practice in NSW A man who pretended to be a lawyer under a fake law firm could face...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 19 to 25 May 2025

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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sydney Lawyer Fails in Attempt to Sue NSW Police Force for Malicious Prosecution A Sydney lawyer whose sexual assault charges were later dropped has failed...

Statistics Suggest Police Are Solving More Crimes Than Ever Before

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A recent report by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has the mainstream media asserting that criminal offences are being ‘solved’ at higher rates than ever before in New South Wales. But while these sources...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 April 2025

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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Police Officer Who Fatally Tasered Great-Grandmother Avoids Prison: The Reasoning The Supreme Court of NSW has published its reasons for imposing a non-custodial sentence....

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