Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 21 to 27 October 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Difference Between Cannabis Leaf and Plant for the Purpose of NSW Drug Offences “I am satisfied that the applicant could not in law have...
Criminal Prosecutions Soar Under New South Wales’ Unjust Drug Driving Laws
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) released a report on 23 October 2024 which found that the number of people charged with drug driving offences over the past decade has increased from 1,409 to 13,815 annually. But notably,...
NSW Police Continue to Harass Motorists with Unjust Zero-Tolerance Drug Driving Laws
A NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) study released this week has found that over the period 2008 through to last year, roadside drug testing (RDT) in this state, which was rolled out in 2007, has dramatically increased...
NSW Police Are Strip Searching Around 100 Civilians at Public Train Stations Annually
New South Wales police officers accompanied by drug detection dogs randomly searching commuters at train stations have been part of life in Sydney since NSW parliament passed laws coming into effect in February 2002, that permitted the warrantless use of...
Moving Away from War Against Drugs Brings Enormous Benefits
The global failure of the decades-long war on drugs has resulted in a myriad of issues for jurisdictions that continue to plough resources into enforcement and retain a model which sees addiction as a criminal law problem rather than a...
Prohibition is Failing to Reduce the Social, Economic and Health Risks of Illicit Drugs
Federal law enforcement agencies are boasting of two “major drug seizures” during a 48 hour “blitz” at Sydney Airport from 21 to 23 September 2024. But drug reform experts assert that such “victories” are merely a pin prick to the...
The Futile War on Drugs Continues to Fuel Violent Crime and Endanger the Public
New South Wales police are claiming that recent raids on 20 homes across Sydney in which ‘underworld figures’ are believed to reside has effectively dismantled an alleged organised crime network labelled as ‘The Commission’. However, there are fears the raids...
NSW Government’s Drug Diversion Scheme is an Abject Failure
The Early Drug Diversion Initiative that was quietly implemented by the Minns government early this year, has again been found to be an abject failure, and no one who’s been paying attention to the drug law reform debate in NSW...
Unimpaired Drivers Continue to Face Drug Driving Charges in New South Wales
The NSW Police Force conducted the four-day-long driving safety offence blitz, Operation RAID (Remove All Impaired Drivers), last week, which resulted in the detection of 6,653 driving offences in total, as officers targeted three specific impediments to safe driving: alcohol,...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 2 to 8 September 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Sexual Intercourse with a Child Aged Between 10 and 14 Years in NSW A member of NSW parliament has resigned after being...
