NSW Police Force Falls Apart During Hearing of Strip Search Class Action
New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Dina Yehia was baffled by the manner in which the state’s police force approached the long-anticipated strip search class action, as it appears that the lawyers representing police took the same haphazard approach that...
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Federal Labor Thinks Its Election Victory Vindicates Its Stance on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Key minister of the returned Albanese government Penny Wong told the Herald late last week that she considers the landslide victory her party received at the 3 May 2025 federal election as vindicating the “balanced and moderate policy” Labor took...
“While Governments Fail to, We Will Continue to Act”: Interview With Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s James Godfrey
Of the 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, about half a million are facing imminent death by starvation, as part of a famine being produced by Israel, according to Al Jazeera. At the beginning of the Gaza genocide, that masthead used...
Trump’s Attack on Lawyers Signals Where Authoritarianism Can Take Us
The Trump administration is continuing its revamping of the United States, as a modern authoritarian regime, that now flagrantly disregards the norms of international law, whilst terrorising its domestic population with increasing assaults upon civil rights and the social sector,...
NSW Government Launches Review as It Feels Not Enough Kids Are Being Locked Up
New South Wales premier Chris Minns, attorney general Michael Daley and police minister Yasmin Catley are all grown adults employed to assist in the governing of this state. Yet, for some reason, this appears to make them obsessed with ensuring...
Doli Incapax: The Presumption that Kids Between 10 and 14 Cannot Form Criminal Intent
A 15-year-old boy made a complaint to New South Wales police about his older brother twice having had sexual intercourse with him, whilst he was roughly 6 years and 9 months old, which made his brother then 11 years and...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 5 to 11 May 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Despite Falling Crime Rates, Police Are Criminally Charging More People Than Ever Before Despite NSW crimes rates falling for decades, heavy-handed policing has ensured courts...
NSW Government Proposes to Ensure More Kids Are Criminally Convicted
There have been media reports that a High Court case in 2016 which makes clear the onus is on the prosecution to prove that those under the age of 14 knew their conduct was ‘seriously wrong’ in order to secure...
Confirming It’s Legal to Speak About the Right Occupied Peoples Have to Armed Resistance
Krautungalung elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe and Sydney-based lawyer Daniel Taylor have teamed up again on a legal action, this time concerning the legal right to speak about the implications that international law has in regard to Israel’s occupation of the...
A Rise in Nitazene Overdoses Requires Fixed Site Pill Testing and Take-Home Naloxone
The Australian Federal Police issued a warning on Wednesday about the worrying trend in a relatively new type of street drug, a group of synthetic opioids known as nitazenes, being increasingly detected at the border, as well as being available...
