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RLC in the Media: Do you think you've been hit with an unfair COVID fine?

Redfern Legal Centre's Police Accountability solicitor, Samantha Lee, spoke to A Current Affair about the number of calls the centre has been receiving about potentially unlawful Covid-19 fines.

8 October 2021

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RLC in the Media: ‘Ridiculous’: NSW police accused of handing out unfair Covid fines and targeting young people

Legal centres are being ‘bombarded’ by people who say they’ve been wrongly fined for lockdown breaches.

7 October 2021

Events

How to Appeal a COVID-19 Fine in NSW (webinar recording)

Thousands of people have been fined under the Public Health Orders in NSW. Police don’t always get it right.

6 October 2021

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RLC in the Media: “Majority” of COVID fines in NSW are bogus, expert claims

The Australian Criminal and Family Lawyers (ACFL) is challenging several New South Wales Police powers under the COVID-19 public health orders in the Supreme Court.

4 October 2021

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RLC in the Media: NSW Police powers challenged

The Australian Criminal and Family Lawyers (ACFL) is challenging several New South Wales Police powers under the COVID-19 public health orders in the Supreme Court.

4 October 2021

RLC in the media

RLC in the Media: Legal centre calls out unfair COVID fines

Sydney's Redfern Legal Centre says it's overwhelmed with requests for help from people who insist they have been wrongly issued with fines by police for allegedly breaching COVID health orders.

29 September 2021

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RLC in the Media: COVID fines for July and August dwarf the total for all of 2020

The latest statistics from Revenue NSW reveal that in July and August more than 28,000 COVID fines were issued, whihc is 13 times the number of fines issued during the whole of last year.

28 September 2021

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RLC in the Media: Western and South-Western Sydney residents condemn inconsistent COVID compliance policing

Greater Sydney’s second Covid-19 lockdown is highlighting the once hidden divisions within Sydney and its surrounding areas, with the emergence of differing approaches to Covid compliance policing and the issuing of Covid related fines.

18 September 2021

Media releases

‘We cannot fine our way out of the pandemic’: Legal profession calls on NSW Premier to revoke unlawful COVID-19 fines

Over 100 prominent members of the legal, academic and political profession have endorsed an open letter sent to the NSW Premier, calling on the NSW Government to revoke wrongly issued COVID-19 fines.

16 September 2021

News

Open letter: COVID-19 fines

Redfern Legal Centre has joint forces with a number of other advocates on an open letter to the NSW Premier calling on the NSW Government to revoke wrongly issued COVID-19 fines.

16 September 2021

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RLC in the Media: Do you think you've been hit with an unfair COVID fine?

RLC in the Media: ‘Ridiculous’: NSW police accused of handing out unfair Covid fines and targeting young people

How to Appeal a COVID-19 Fine in NSW (webinar recording)

RLC in the Media: “Majority” of COVID fines in NSW are bogus, expert claims

RLC in the Media: NSW Police powers challenged

RLC in the Media: Legal centre calls out unfair COVID fines

RLC in the Media: COVID fines for July and August dwarf the total for all of 2020

RLC in the Media: Western and South-Western Sydney residents condemn inconsistent COVID compliance policing

‘We cannot fine our way out of the pandemic’: Legal profession calls on NSW Premier to revoke unlawful COVID-19 fines

Open letter: COVID-19 fines

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