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Music festival-goers who claim they were illegally strip searched by NSW police are suing the state government for damages, with the then 27-year-old lead plaintiff claiming an officer inspected her genitalia and that a male police officer entered the cubicle while she was naked from the waist down.

Thousands of Covid-19 fines worth millions of dollars could be ruled invalid if two Sydneysiders win a landmark test case in the New South Wales Supreme Court.

The validity of COVID-19 fines issued across NSW will be called into question in a court case that has the potential to invalidate millions of dollars worth of penalty notices issued during the state’s lockdowns.

Forty civil society organisations have expressed alarm at reports of police overreach in preemptive policing of protest, with NSW police conducting covert surveillance and a raid on climate activists north of Sydney on Sunday.

A national coalition of organisations is calling for better protections for migrant workers to prevent wage theft.

If the COVID years have taught us anything about migration, it is that Australia depends on it.

The gap in inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is depressingly vast in the legal and justice system.

New penalties have been introduced for protesters who block major traffic and infrastructure in NSW.

More than 7000 people have applied to Revenue NSW to overturn a COVID-19 fine but only one in 10 appeals were successful, a new freedom of information request obtained by RLC has revealed. 

NSW Police could face a large compensation bill if a class action lawsuit alleging unlawful searches took place at a popular music festival is successful.