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NSW Supreme Court to Hear COVID-19 Fines Test Case

In 2018, Byron Bay police struck a teenager 18 times with a baton. Five years later courts are still deciding, was it “reasonable”?

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling on the NSW Government to put an immediate stay on enforcement orders issued to people who have not yet paid their COVID-19 fines.

Attorney general says bill, which will create a separate offence, could be ‘difference between life and death’.

LECC announced that the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions has laid charges against police officer over the fraud allegations involving fabricating evidence

Explores the process of seeking a review of your fine by Revenue NSW or the Court.

RLC has lodged a complaint with the LECC following a police interaction with a 14-year-old First Nations boy.

First Nations people in Dubbo were subjected to the highest number of police strip searches in NSW over two year period.

Redfern Legal Centre says $20,000 in fines issued is ‘unjust’ and ‘sets children up for failure’

Latest NSW Police strip-search figures show that throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of people were still being subjected to strip searches, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and children disproportionately targeted.