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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BAIL LAWS The NSW Government on 6 June 2024 passed the Bail and Other Legislation Amendment (Domestic Violence) Bill 2024, which is an Act that amended the Bail Act 2013 and the Surveillance Devices Act 2007 as part of the NSW Government’s response to domestic violence. The legislation reverses the presumption of bail […]

NSW POLICE UNACCOUNTABLE FOR MISCONDUCT The NSW Police Force has a checkered history of NSW Police officers committing criminal offences, as well as conduct that may not be criminal in nature but is nevertheless a breach of its own internal rules and contrary to the behaviour that would be expected in any workplace, let alone

MEN SENTENCED FOR DAMAGING AND DESTROYING PROPERTY Sydney property developer Steve Nassif has been sentenced in Sydney’s Central District Court to two years and seven months in prison, with a one year and four-month non-parole period for the offence of destroying property by fire in an arson attack that reduced a luxury heritage-listed North Shore

DRIVING WITH ILLICIT DRUGS PRESENT IN SYSTEM  People who consume illicit drugs are often concerned about the length of time the illicit drugs remain detectable in their system, predominately out of regard for Mobile Drug Tests (MDTs) conducted by Police against motorists, targeting drivers driving with illicit drugs present in their system as well as

WHY TO AVOID A CRIMINAL CONVICTION? HAVING A CRIMINAL RECORD MAY IMPACT YOUR ABILITY TO TRAVEL TO MANY COUNTRIES.  Former Prime Minister, The Hon Tony Abbott AC often states that Australians have won the lottery of life by being able to call Australia home. Few, if any Australians would disagree. Where else would one want to

CONTEXTS ASSOCIATED WITH USE CARRIAGE SERVICE TO MENACE, HARASS OR OFFEND The increasing use of technology as a means of communication via countless platforms and the ability to conveniently send messages via the purported safety and comfort of one’s own home gives rise to the prevalence of the criminal offence of using a carriage service

MAN CHARGED WITH GOODS IN CUSTODY AS POLICE SEIZE ILLEGAL CIGARETTES AND VAPES NSW Police have charged a 32-year-old man with the offence of ‘persons unlawfully in possession of property’, commonly referred to as ‘goods in custody’, after he was alleged to have been caught by Forster Highway Patrol driving a truck with over $3.2

BALI 9 MEMBER ARRESTED FOLLOWING ALLEGED OFFENCE OF TAKING A CONVEYANCE WITHOUT CONSENT OF OWNER Bali 9 member Matthew Norman has been charged and arrested by NSW Police following his return to Australia, having been charged in 2005 for allegedly committing the offence of taking a conveyance without consent of owner. The arrest relates to

OPERATION RAID CATCHES MOTORISTS DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS OR ALCOHOL Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol is a criminal offence which can have serious legal repercussions. It is a fateful decision often made by people with no criminal history or association and who had no foreshadowed plan to commit the offence.

LICENCE APPEALS The ability to drive a vehicle is important to the functioning of an individual and a family’s day to day life, and it often takes the absence of a vehicle or the suspension of a NSW Driver Licence for an individual to truly appreciate how vital and convenient it is to be able