ABC News reports.
The latest statistics from Revenue NSW reveal that in July and August more than 28,000 COVID fines were issued.
That's about 13 times the number of fines issued during the whole of last year.
The legal centre recently sent an open letter to the NSW government — signed by 100 prominent members of the legal, academic and political profession — calling for all wrongly issued fines to be revoked.
The centre's senior lawyer Samantha Lee said there had been no response and called for the issue to be addressed, saying thousands of innocent people with no means of paying their fines were in distress.
"Our centre has been struggling to keep up with demand to assist people who have been issued with COVID fines and what we are finding is that the majority of people have been issued with a fine unlawfully and what that means is that the police have got it wrong."
Read the full article here. (29 September 2021)
