What are the Rules Around NSW Police Strip Searching a Person?
241,000 is the number that has been given to NSW Police Officers, representing the quota for conducting personal searches, including strip searches on people for the 2019 financial year. In fact, in 2019, NSW Police failed to meet its quota by just under 2000 searches. NSW Greens managed to obtained the shocking revelation through the ...continue reading
What is a Criminal Lawyers’ Role?
Criminal lawyers represent people from all walks of life. Unfortunately, movies and TV shows have portrayed criminal lawyers in a bad light, prompting members of the public asking the question criminal lawyers get asked too often, “but how can you defend a criminal?”, or “how can you defend a guilty person?”. Too often we ...continue reading
What are the Penalties, Defences and Charges for Break and Enter in NSW?
In a bizarre break and enter, a burglar has broken into a Florida home on Christmas eve in the city of Bradenton in the Manatee County, Florida. The bizarre thing about this break and enter is that home owner who was fast asleep woke up to the burglar sucking on his toes. It’s reported ...continue reading
Law on Break, Enter and Commit Serious Indictable Offences in NSW
By Sahar Adatia and Jimmy Singh. Australia is burning amid one of the country’s worst fire seasons on record and against the backdrop of this devastation, never before has human suffering been so unprecedented. The fires have now killed at least 25 people and destroyed nearly 2,000 homes, while the blazes have transformed skies ...continue reading
The Law on Blackmail and Extortion in NSW
It is reported that the 2015 season contestant from the Block, 49-year-old Suzi Taylor has been charged with extorting and detaining her tinder date. It is alleged that she lured her tinder date before assaulting him for financial gain. Police allege that the tinder date, a 33-year-old man visited a house in a Riverside ...continue reading
The Law on Strip Searches in NSW
Imagine a sniffer dog incorrectly indicates to police that you have drugs on you outside the entrance of a music festival, which causes police to form a suspicion you have illicit drugs on you, but you actually don’t. Imagine, then police escort you away in view of everyone watching this infold, and you are ...continue reading
The Penalties for Break and Enter and Commit Serious Indictable Offence in NSW
By Sahar Adatia and Jimmy Singh. Coming home to find your house has been broken into is a frightening experience. Not only is it a violation of your space and possessions, but it’s an encounter that can also take some time to recover from emotionally. But imagine if your home was broken into while ...continue reading
Is it Legal to Make a Citizen’s Arrest in NSW?
It is reported that a man with a large knife in Sydney CBD has allegedly attempted to stab people on Tuesday. Causing the Sydney CBD to go into lockdown, the incident unfolded close to the corner of Clarence and King Street when a man who was reportedly armed with a machete went on a ...continue reading
A Guide on Your Right to Silence When Approached by Police
By Scott Feeney and Jimmy Singh. The Brazilian Military Police were ready. The raid was about to take place in the northeast of the country, in the low-income community of Vila Irma Dulce. It was Monday the 22nd of April, and while on a regular patrol of their beat, the police observed a man ...continue reading
The Law on Break, Enter and Commit Serious Indictable Offence in NSW
By Sahar Adatia and Jimmy Singh. It’s the age of iPads, wi-fi enabled games, and anything with a touchscreen. But when it comes to toys, the humble Lego brick has not only endured in its popularity, it has also survived and thrived against the odds. So much has the little toy bricks’ popularity subsisted ...continue reading