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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.

The New South Wales government is being urged to withdraw more than 29-thousand remaining COVID fines.

Samantha Lee, Redfern Legal Centre’s police accountability solicitor, speaks on ABC Drive about the recent NSW Supreme Court judgment on covid fines.

The New South Wales government has been urged to withdraw more than 29,000 remaining Covid-19 fines after the Supreme Court found fundamental flaws in the way they were issued.

A Supreme Court judgment could invalidate all Covid-19 fines after a state’s revenue department backed down on thousands of penalty notices.

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necessary for a fine to be valid, and calls into disrepute all the remaining 29,017 COVID-19 fines that have not been withdrawn.

Victim survivors of financial abuse experience impacts on their credit report... and so their lives ...for years after they leave the relationship behind.

One partner’s bad money habits can cause lasting damage unless early action is taken. Rising cost of living pressures due to higher interest rates are hurting women’s financial progress and increasing the risk of relationship debt.

Data obtained by Redfern Legal Centre, via the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW), reflects a clear bias involved in the way that NSW police officers are applying personal searches.

Police are conducting more than 150,000 body searches annually across NSW, with children and Indigenous people more likely to be stopped and interrogated.