A new NSW Bill would let police interviews become complainants’ evidence and trial ground rules hearings. What changes, and what stays, if you’re accused.
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On 22 September 2026, the Queensland Court of Appeal dismissed Robert McVicker’s defamation appeal against the ABC. His company had bought online travel agency Bestjet weeks before it went into administration. That is because a news story can name you, and sit beside the word “collapse”, without carrying the defamatory meaning you say it does.
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NSW Police have uncovered one of the largest fraud syndicates in the country’s history: up to $600 million in fraudulent loans allegedly taken from Australian banks. A 28-year-old Sydney woman is among those charged, facing 17 counts of making false documents to obtain financial advantage, over an alleged $14.5 million in fraudulent loans linked to
Two mothers have settled a trespass claim against NSW Police after alleging that repeated visits to check on their teenage sons went far beyond anything the law actually allows. The settlement, reported recently by the ABC, was reached on the eve of trial, after one of the families says police visited more than 100 times
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In February 2026, a NSW court handed down the first full-time jail sentence under the state’s coercive control offence. This is what the new law was written for, and it tells us a lot about how these cases will be prosecuted and defended. Callum Fairleigh was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, with a non-parole period
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The National Redress Scheme confirmed in its August 2026 board update that it will close to new applications on 30 June 2027. The Scheme itself is winding up entirely on 30 June 2028. For survivors of institutional child sexual abuse who haven’t yet decided how, or whether, to seek redress, this date is very important.
A reviewer leaves an honest one-star review of a business. Happens every day, right? However, unusually, the business doesn’t just disagree in its public reply. Instead, it publishes the reviewer’s full name and email address. That’s not just a bad customer service moment. It’s a privacy breach, potentially defamation, and one of the more disorienting
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A driver posted to r/AusLegal describing a highway patrol stop: a car of the same make and similar colour had sped past them moments earlier. Shortly after, a highway patrol officer pulled them over, alleging they were doing 30 km/h over the posted limit off a radar reading. Thankfully, the driver had a dashcam. It
Big changes are coming organised crime. On 6 August 2026, the NSW Government introduced the Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Further Organised Crimes Reforms) Bill 2026, backed by a $126.6 million budget package. The Bill has not passed yet, but is expected to soon. Premier Chris Minns stated: “Organised crime has changed, and our laws
On 11 August 2026, another person died in custody at the Metropolitan Special Programs Centre (MSPC) at Long Bay Correctional Complex. It is the second death in a matter of months in a unit that had already been flagged as unsafe. In May 2026, a 19-year-old man died at MSPC in an area the NSW
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