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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.

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

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