Georgina Mitchell reporting in WA Today.
In November last year, 33,121 of the 62,138 fines handed out since the start of the pandemic were withdrawn after Revenue NSW conceded in court that they were not valid.
Redfern Legal Centre, which brought the case, filed a fresh challenge last week in the hope it will prompt the cancellation of the remaining 29,017 fines for being similarly defective.
Samantha Lee, a senior police accountability solicitor at Redfern Legal Centre, said she would like the new case to be a tipping point, resulting in other fines being withdrawn. She said fines have a crippling impact on people who are socially and financially disadvantaged.
“We expected Revenue NSW to withdraw all remaining COVID fines following the Supreme Court’s judgment earlier this year, but this has not occurred,” she said. “We are filing this case because the fine system in NSW needs to be fair and abide by the rule of law.”
