Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 27 January to 2 February 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: What Are the Rules For Accessing and Selling ‘Poppers’ in Australia? New laws relating to alkyl nitrites – also known as ‘poppers’ – come into...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 20 to 26 January 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: I’ve Received a Fine in NSW, What Happens Now? How to check whether you have a fine, how to challenge it and what happens if...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 to 29 December 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: “The Liar From the Shire”: Thousands March Demanding Action from Morrison Thousands have marched across the Harbour Bridge calling on our absent prime minister to...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Drug Supply in New South Wales
A young woman has been charged with drug supply after allegedly being found with 1000 MDMA (‘ecstasy’) tablets at a music festival. New South Wales police officers are reported to have found 800 tablets in the woman’s bra and 200...
The Wild Horses Sting? Police Breath and Drug Test Patrons Evacuating Festival
At around 9.30 am on Monday 9 December, word went around punters camped out at the Wild Horses festival in Victoria’s Marysville that an announcement had been made regarding an alleged police order that the site be immediately evacuated due...
Drug Policing Causes Most of the Harms: An Interview With Former Police Sergeant Greg Denham
Last August marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most significant music festivals of all time, Woodstock. The four day event involved the coming together of close to half a million people, and as is well-known, the hippies that...
The “Kids for Cash” System: An Interview With Social Justice Warrior Paul Robert Burton
Paul Robert Burton came under the ire of NSW authorities, when in July 2017, he made a number of social media posts about a young sick boy, who’d been removed from the care of his parents by NSW Family and...
Ongoing Drug Supply Charges Can Remain in the Local Court
Supplying a prohibited drug on an ongoing basis - or ‘ongoing drug supply’ - is an offence under section 25A of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and/or a...
NSW Police Can Criminally Prosecute Citizens Without Providing Evidence
It is a fundamental principle of our criminal justice system that accused persons are informed of the evidence against them and have the opportunity to investigate the veracity of that material before their cases reach contested hearings or jury trials....
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 11 to 17 November 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sniffer Dogs are Ineffective in Detecting the Presence of Drugs Drug dogs may give a positive indication where a person has merely touched affected currency...