Schoolyard Assault Highlights Trend Towards Violence in Youth Culture
A recent case involving the arrest of a woman and two young girls over the alleged attempted assault of a student and brutal assault of two staff members at a school in Northern New South Wales exemplifies a disturbing trend...
NSW Court Registry Data Breach Threatens to Further Erode Confidence in Justice System
A major breach of the New South Wales courts database has raised questions about how and why thousands of documents containing sensitive personal information about defendants, complainants and witnesses have been accessed through what are meant to be secure servers,...
Political Block on Atrocity Prosecutions Remains, As Major Parties Reject Genocide Reforms
The Labor-Liberal ruling duopoly voted down Senator Lidia Thorpe’s Genocide Bill in the Senate on Wednesday, which meant the major parties agreed that a political veto afforded the attorney general in respect progressing atrocity crime prosecutions, that ensures inequality before...
Will Australian Leaders Extradite Dan Duggan to an Authoritarian USA?
Experts are describing the assault on the democratic institution of the separation of powers the newly incumbent Trump administration has embarked upon, via its executive order issuing bonanza over the last two months, as a “blitzkrieg on the rule of...
Police Should Not Decide Bail for Fellow Officers: An Interview with Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern
Former New South Wales Magistrate David Heilpern is calling for an overhaul of the NSW police bail system as it continues to see police officers making the decision on whether their fellow officers who fall foul of the law should...
New South Wales Launches Yet Another Crackdown on Youth Crime
The New South Wales Police Force launched yet another regional youth crime crackdown on 19 March 2025, as deputy commissioner Paul Pisanos told Nine’s Today that the new Operation Soteria has been put into effect to address what police see...
Next in Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Crosshairs: Law Firms and Lawyers
When Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he launched a campaign to ensure the disempowerment of those who stood in the way of his authoritarian agenda. At the top of the soon-to-be dictator’s list were judges and...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 17 to 23 March 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Exorbitant Tobacco Taxes Lead to Organised Crime and Endanger the Public The recent seizure of a $35 million tobacco crop is the latest example of...
NSW Government Refuses to Repeal Hoax-Based Antisemitism Laws
The fallout from the recent Australian federal police admission that it had been aware soon after the 19 January 2025 discovery of a caravan laden with explosives and an antisemitic note in the northwestern Sydney suburb of Dural that the...
Dutton Is Set to Go on a Deportation Rampage, Potentially Targeting Pro-Palestinians
In his time heading up the Immigration and Home Affairs portfolios, Peter Dutton excelled at deporting noncitizens from this country. Of late, the Liberal opposition leader has been waxing lyrical to the press about the 6,000-odd noncitizens he turfed out...
