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The doctrine of ‘joint criminal enterprise’ – also known as complicity or acting with a common purpose – provides that a person may be found guilty of a criminal offence in certain circumstances, even if they did not physically participate...

The Queensland Police Service announced on 23 January that officers from its Counterterrorism Investigation Group had executed multiple warrants at Brisbane residences, in relation to protest actions that took place in Tingalpa and that capital city earlier in the month. According...

Two cannabis activists who beamed a cannabis message onto the sails of the Opera House have not only had the charges brought against them dropped, the New South Wales Police Force will need to pay for their legal costs. The...

A just released report advises that reforms to New South Wales drink- and drug-driving laws, which have seen penalty notices, triggering licence suspensions and fines, issued to first-time low-level drink drivers and drivers with the presence of drugs in their...

Whilst most people know that there are criminal laws against possessing recreational drugs like MDMA, heroin and cannabis in New South Wales, it is perhaps less commonly known that possessing some pharmaceutical medicines without a valid prescription can also amount...

Police in New South Wales are not permitted to search persons, vehicles or premises without sufficient reason. In the absence of a lawfully obtained warrant, officers must have reasonable grounds to conduct a search, and can find themselves on the...

Darko “Dougie” Desic made headlines in September 2021, when the Avalon handy man turned himself into Dee Why Police Station, after he’d escaped the since-closed Grafton Correctional Centre sometime between 7 pm on 31 July and 7 am on 1...

Right before the COVID pandemic shut down Sydney, NSW police use of strip searches was one of the state’s most prominent social justice issues, and coupled with drug dogs, these law enforcement tactics employed to find illicit drugs, are considered...

Going to court for criminal charges is an intimidating prospect, so it’s not surprising that many people who are accused of criminal offences seek to have charges brought against them withdrawn before the case reaches a defended hearing in the...

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