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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. A 14-year-old Indigenous boy who was hospitalised with head injuries after an encounter with NSW Police officers in September is fighting to have an upcoming hearing examining the officers’ conduct open to the public.

The NSW Government’s ‘law and order’ response to the pandemic created significant fines debt and damaged community-police relations in some of the most disadvantaged parts of the state, according to a new UNSW Law School report. 

Solicitor Samantha Lee says the NSW government's decision to withdraw COVID fines leaves a door open for other fines to be challenged.

Tens of thousands of people who were in debt to the New South Wales government for breaching COVID-19 health orders are off the hook.

More than 33,000 Covid fines will be withdrawn or refunded in Australia's most populous state after a court deemed them invalid.

Single mother couldn't get her driver's licence back after fine was left unpaid.

Court victory by Redfern Legal Centre prompts government to cancel half of all fines issued for breaching pandemic restrictions. 

A key plank of the NSW government’s COVID-19 response has been torpedoed, with half of the fines issued under emergency orders to be cancelled and demands for the state to rescind the other half.

More than half of the COVID-19 fines issued in New South Wales during the pandemic will be withdrawn after a court battle between a Sydney legal centre and the state government.

Fines worth millions of dollars issued to thousands of people in NSW for breaching COVID-19 restrictions are being withdrawn by the state's revenue agency.