Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 July 2020

Full licence holders who exceed their demerit point limit may elect to obtain a good behaviour licence.

Who do you call when you need help? It turns out there are a number of organisations that may be able to help.

The border has closed for the first time in a century, but permits are available in certain circumstances.

Police are investigating a suspicious fire in a Burwood barber shop overnight.

New laws will come into effect regulating the circumstances in which Local Court criminal cases can be dismissed for mental health reasons.

The Victorian government has deployed 500 armed police officers to enforce an extreme lockdown of nine public housing towers, due to the threat of COVID-19.

Wayne Fella Morrison became unresponsive after five prison guards wrestled him into a van and got in with him three minutes earlier.

Laws relating to fitness to stand trial, the insanity defence and diverting those who suffer from mental health conditions are set to change in NSW.

Peter Dutton is often cast as the most sinister federal MP, but it should be remembered that the current PM laid the foundations for him.

The nation’s move towards a cashless society is hitting our most vulnerable the hardest.

Criminal law barristers have been hit especially hard by COVID-19, with many turning to other work or quitting the bar altogether.

The criminalisation of cannabis has led to otherwise law-abiding, honest, well-intentioned and even desperately ill Australians unnecessarily facing criminal convictions.

Drug activists in Vancouver are calling for a clean, consistent supply of drugs during COVID-19.

The homes of two NSW drug squad detectives have been raided in relation to allegations that they manufactured prohibited drugs.

Australia has used its position in the United Nations to approve further Israeli incursions into Palestinian territory.