Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 13 to 19 June 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: What are the Defences to Defamation in New South Wales? The recently-introduced defence of ‘public interest’ provides some protection to those who criticise politicians and...
The ACT Government Has Greenlighted Drug Decriminalisation
The ACT is about to decriminalise the personal possession and use of illicit substances. So, while drug supply will remain a serious crime, the capital will no longer criminally charge people for using certain drugs, in a move akin to...
The Law, Penalties and Defences for Possessing a Commercial Quantity of Unlawfully Imported Border Controlled Drug
A Sydney man arrested and charged with possessing a commercial quantity of unlawfully imported border controlled drugs has been released on a $1 million security for bail. Police allege that Wade Habkouk, who is the CEO and director of a...
Albanese “Is Not a Prohibitionist at Heart”: PM’s Political Roots Include Drug Law Reform
“The speech made by Anthony Albanese in parliament on 22 March 1999 makes it clear that Australia’s new prime minister is not a prohibitionist at heart,” said Harm Reduction Australia ambassador Dr Alex Wodak. The doctor pointed Sydney Criminal Lawyers in the direction...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 June 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Australia: The Defamation Capital of the World Those who bring defamation cases in the US are required to prove a long list of matters. But...
Speakman’s Modest Drug Reforms Blocked, as Perrottet Stalls on the Inevitable
More than two years after the NSW Coalition government-commissioned inquiry into the drug ice delivered its recommendations, the dinosaurs in the Liberal Nationals cabinet continue to resist taking any adequate action in regard to its findings or even respond to its...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 May to 5 June 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Biloela Family Will Return to Their Community, But for How Long? The new government has kept its promise to return the Tamil family to Queensland,...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 to 29 May 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Australia Has Spoken: Greenslides, Triumphant Independents and Far-Right Rejection Australians have turned to independents and minority parties who call for climate action and a federal...
NSW Police Claim Victory in the War on Drugs
Eighteen men aged between 19 and 39 are appearing in courts across Sydney’s West and South-West today after being arrested in coordinated police raids. Police have described the men as ‘low to mid ranking’ members of a dial-a-dealer drug network...
Australia Has Spoken: Greenslides, Triumphant Independents and Far-Right Rejection
Whether Labor takes the majority or remains minority, the Australian public has broken the bipartisan line with the results of this election. The duopoly that has been the old white boys club shifting laws around to favour fossil fuel corporates...
