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necessary for a fine to be valid, and calls into disrepute all the remaining 29,017 COVID-19 fines that have not been withdrawn.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

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

Family law remedies to address financial abuse (webinar series)

Revenue NSW has conceded that many COVID-19 fines are invalid. But what does that mean for the rest of the community who may have received or paid fines? 

The NSW government has conceded that two COVID-19 fines being challenged in a Supreme Court test case are invalid, opening the door for more than 30,000 other people to have fines worth $30 million cancelled.

Organisations across NSW call for the NSW Government's Crimes Legislation Amendment (Coercive Control) Bill 2022 to be reviewed. 

This criminal offence could end up retraumatising victim survivors and criminalising people who are most in need of protection, say RLC's Gayatri Nair.

A coalition of community legal centres including RLC has sent an open letter to government calling for improvements to a proposed discrimination law Bill.