On 18 March 2020, the Governor-General declared a “human biosecurity emergency” under the Biosecurity Act 2015 (Cth). This is the first time the special measures for managing biosecurity risks under the Biosecurity Act have been invoked. At around June this year, just when people started to get use to the year long Covid-19 outbreak, NSW reported…
BACKGROUND On 9 July 2021, New South Wales Police deployed over 100 extra police officers in the Liverpool, Fairfield and Canterbury-Bankstown local government areas (LGAs). The operation, which has since copped major backlash from local community leaders have claimed the presence of Police in these areas represents a long-standing issue of being over policed in the…
WHAT IS AN AVO? An Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) is a Court order made to protect a Person in Need of Protection (PINOP) from the Defendant, the person whom the order is made against. TYPES OF AVO’S There are two different AVOs a Court can impose, and this depends on the nature of the relationship…
Have you been served with a Court Attendance Notice? Have you read the Police Facts and thought “that’s not the way it happened”. More often than not, competent criminal defence lawyers will try and negotiate with the police in order to amend the charges to reflect their client’s honest interpretation of the allegations. What Is…
THE STORY Anyone who uses public transport will tell you of a time they saw or heard something particularly unpleasant. Today, reports have come in of a “serial masturbator” on inner Sydney buses. The first known complaint filed with NSW Police comes from 5 February 2021 after a passenger travelling to Redfern witnessed the man…
BACKGROUND Almost every adult Australian will no doubt be familiar with the tragic case of Kathleen Folbigg. The now 53-year-old Australian was convicted of three counts of murder and one count of manslaughter for the deaths of her four young children. Whilst she is presently imprisoned and sentenced to 30 years behind bars, Folbigg has…
BACKGROUND In one of our recent articles, one of our specialist criminal lawyers discussed about a family of three Australians who faced court accused of forcing a woman from Afghanistan into “domestic servitude” In a similar case, a grandmother of Indian descent has allegedly been kept as a prisoner in the home of a husband…
The ‘Four Angels law’ was tabled by the New South Wales State Parliament in response to the horrific tragedy which took the lives of Anthony, Angelina and Sienna Abdallah and their cousin, Veronique Sakr. The terrible event occurred in February last year when a drunk driver mounted the footpath, killing the four children. The driver,…
THE CASE: POLICE OFFICER STABBED AT SYDNEY’S CENTRAL STATION Readers may recall of an incident on the news in April 2019 which saw CCTV footage of a man who stabbed a police officer in the back with a large 30-centimetre hunting knife. The unprovoked attacked occurred at around 7:00pm on a busy Friday night with…
The prevalence of self-service checkouts in supermarkets has become a normality. These days when you walk into Coles or Woolworths you expect at the end of your shopping trip you will have the option of, being served by a store assistant at a checkout lane or using the self-service checkout. Self-service checkouts were initially introduced…
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