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COVID-19 Fines Test Case to be Heard Next Week

NSW Supreme Court to Hear COVID-19 Fines Test Case

24 November 2022

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Pain in Paradise

In 2018, Byron Bay police struck a teenager 18 times with a baton. Five years later courts are still deciding, was it “reasonable”?

21 November 2022

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RLC in the media

Domestic Violence Group Warns Proposed Coercive Control Laws Could Escalate Abuse

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

7 November 2022

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RLC in the media

NSW needs to address coercive control, but this rushed law is not the way to do it

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

3 November 2022

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Media releases

COVID fines are exacerbating financial disadvantage

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling on the NSW Government to put an immediate stay on enforcement orders issued to people who have not yet paid their COVID-19 fines.

20 October 2022

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Concerns raised about Coercive Control Bill

Domestic and family violence advocates have raised concerns about the lack of consultation around the criminalisation of coercive control.

13 October 2022

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RLC in the media

Rosie Batty voices concerns with proposed NSW coercive control laws

Attorney general says bill, which will create a separate offence, could be ‘difference between life and death’.

12 October 2022

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Joint media release: Coercive Control Bill has serious flaws, warn domestic and family violence advocates

Leading domestic and violence advocates say they cannot support the Coercive Control Bill in its current form.

12 October 2022

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Buy now, pay later failing family violence victims

Buy Now Pay Later industry regulations needs to be strengthened, domestic violence advocates say.

12 October 2022

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RLC in the media

NSW government rushes to pass coercive control bill despite opposition from domestic violence advocates

The NSW government says it is matter of life and death that coercive control is criminalised this year and it doesn't want concerns from domestic violence advocates to cause delays.

12 October 2022

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COVID-19 Fines Test Case to be Heard Next Week

Pain in Paradise

Domestic Violence Group Warns Proposed Coercive Control Laws Could Escalate Abuse

NSW needs to address coercive control, but this rushed law is not the way to do it

COVID fines are exacerbating financial disadvantage

Concerns raised about Coercive Control Bill

Rosie Batty voices concerns with proposed NSW coercive control laws

Joint media release: Coercive Control Bill has serious flaws, warn domestic and family violence advocates

Buy now, pay later failing family violence victims

NSW government rushes to pass coercive control bill despite opposition from domestic violence advocates

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