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What happens to tens of thousands of COVID-related fines in NSW after a Supreme Court ruling raised questions about their validity?

Local court cases involving COVID-19-related fines in NSW are under review following a Supreme Court ruling that two penalty notices were invalid.

The NSW government is yet to reveal what it will do with roughly 29,000 Covid-related infringements issued during 2020 and 2021 in the wake of a damning ruling last week by the NSW Supreme Court.

The Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) has urged the government to dismiss all COVID-19-related fines following the NSW Supreme Court’s clarification of what makes a fine valid.

The New South Wales government is being urged to scrap nearly 30,000 COVID-related fines.

There are calls for the New South Wales government to withdraw the more than 29,000 outstanding COVID fines after a judgment from the Supreme Court.

After a declaratory judgement issued by the Supreme Court earlier this week, the government may need to accede to the pressure or face a tsunami of lawsuits by those unlawfully issued with Covid fines – whether or not those fines have been paid.