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Financial Abuse and Family Law (webinar series)

A report by researchers at UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Crime, Law and Justice (CCLJ) has condemned the overuse of COVID-19 fines during the NSW Delta wave in 2021.The report was commissioned by Redfern Legal Centre (RLC), the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and The Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS).

Some councils are giving up on paper tickets and instead sending letters up to a month later, giving motorists little chance to appeal.

Family law remedies to address financial abuse (webinar series)

When I was pinged for a nonsensical red light offence and fined $469, it wasn’t about the money, it was about the principle. Well, and the money.

Revenue NSW says the money will be transferred into government’s unclaimed money fund after three weeks of inaction

The NSW government’s “law and order” response to the COVID-19 pandemic led to significant fines on those least able to pay up.

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. 

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.