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Recordings and resources for webinars on fines and penalty notices in NSW.

Today the NSW Supreme Court published its reasons in a test case about COVID-19 fines. The decision clarifies the requirements necessary for a fine to be valid, and calls into disrepute all the remaining 29,017 COVID-19 fines that have not been withdrawn.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) launches the Police Accountability Dashboard - a groundbreaking tool and the first of its kind in Australia.

RLC is excited to present this cutting-edge webinar, which will draw on lessons from our recent casework to give you tips and tactics that may help solve your clients' debt problems.

Legal Aid NSW has published an updated version of its 'Fined Out' booklet, produced in collaboration with Inner City Legal Centre and Redfern Legal Centre.

The National Justice Project (NJP), Redfern Legal Centre (RLC), Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) are hosting an expert forum, ‘Mental health call outs: who should respond?’ to consider alternatives to the current approach that sends police to be first responders to a mental health crisis.

New South Wales police used force toward Aboriginal people at a vastly disproportionate rate compared to non-Indigenous people, new data has shown.

There’s been a change in the types of matters coming through the doors of Redfern Legal Centre’s financial abuse service.

Another music festival cancellation shows the effect of over-policing on the music festival industry.