Zeb Holmes

Zeb Holmes
Zeb Holmes is a lawyer with a passion for social justice who advocates criminal law reform, and a member of the content team at Sydney Criminal Lawyers®.

Good Cop Prosecuted, While Police Brutality Goes Unpunished

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It has been revealed that dozens of brutality complaints had already been received against police officers in Surfers Paradise ‘Team Two’ when they perpetrated an assault upon 22-year old chef Noa Begic in the basement carpark of a Gold Coast...

Buyers Beware: Non-Existent Tickets for Sale

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A 33-year old man from Queensland has been charged with fraud after allegedly accepting online payments for tickets to singer Ed Sheeran’s recent concerts in Brisbane and Sydney, but never delivering them. The current charges relate to two complainants, with...

Mentally Ill Disproportionately Killed by Police

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Recently released statistics suggest that more than half of the people shot dead by NSW police over the past twenty years were suffering from a mental illness. The data was obtained by Greens MP David Shoebridge through the Government Information...

Getting Drug Charges Dismissed Due to an Illegal Search

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Under sections 21 and 36 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2001, police officers in NSW are prohibited from searching individuals, their personal items or their vehicles without a warrant unless they have a suspicion “on reasonable grounds”...

Hazing Alive and Well in Australia

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Being encouraged to ejaculate into the shampoo bottles of females students, lighting pubic hair on fire, posting photos of the underwear of sexual ‘conquests’, and dangerous binge drinking are just some of the rituals outlined in the 211-page Red Zone...

Sydney Psychologist Suggests Homicidal Teen Should Commit Murder

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A psychologist practising on Sydney’s North Shore has come before the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) after a referral from the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC). Dr Elise Lowick, a specialist in emerging psychosis, was facing suspension or deregistration...

Turnbull’s New ‘Secrecy Laws’: Another Step Towards Totalitarianism

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Following concerns by a consortium of media outlets that Malcolm Turnbull’s new secrecy laws will place journalists at “significant risk of gaol time” for simply doing their jobs, the United Nations has weighed in by saying the laws impose “draconian...

Calls to Prevent Corrupt Foreign Officials from Using Our Banks

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British-American policy advisor Bill Browder has led calls for “rule of law” nations such as Australia to enact laws similar to the ‘Magnitsky Act’ in the United States, which make it harder for corrupt foreign state officials to launder embezzled...

Turnbull Refuses to Rebuke Colleague for Posting Anti-Muslim Videos

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Malcolm Turnbull continues to refuse to rebuke Liberal Senator Jim Molan for posting two propaganda videos by the extreme right-wing anti-Muslim ‘Britain First’ on his Facebook page. The videos purport to depict Muslim men committing acts of violence on religious or...

NSW Police to Target Potential ‘Lone-Wolf’ Terrorists

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A new unit of the NSW Police Force has been created which is ostensibly aimed at combating lone-wolf terrorism by closely monitoring ‘fixated persons’. NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has told the media that the unit will focus on the...
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