NSW Government Resists Broad Calls for Drug Law Reform
The NSW government disregarded last week’s deadline for a response to the recommendations flowing from the 2024 NSW Drug Summit, which it organised, and it also rejected every suggestion made by the NSW inquiry into state cannabis laws. Yet, the “open...
The Various Offences of Drug Supply in New South Wales
A 29-year-old woman from the southwestern New South Wales town of Young was charged with 56 drug offences on Thursday 2 October 2025, whilst her 19-year-old male counterpart has been charged with five crimes involving illicit substances. NSW Police Strike...
NSW Drug Law Campaigners Call for Long Sought-After Illicit Substance Reforms
A coalition of NSW organisations led by Uniting held a presser last week calling on NSW premier Chris Minns to respond to the Report on the 2024 New South Wales Drug Summit within the six-month-period that report authors set for...
Strip Search Class Action Confirms Numerous NSW Police Strip Searches Illegal
NSW Court of Appeal Justice Dina Yehia awarded strip search class action lead plaintiff Raya Meredith $93,000 on Tuesday, while lawyers estimate her more than 3,000 co-plaintiffs could be awarded “potentially millions”, which will be the final outcome of a...
Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings Signify a Further Erosion of International Law
The targeted military strike on a boat in the southern Caribbean that killed 11 people, on order of US president Donald Trump, after it had departed from Venezuela on Tuesday 2 September 2025, has been taken as a significant departure...
Spike in Prohibited Drug Use and Associated Crime Intensifies Calls for Legalisation
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
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
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
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
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...
