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Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 December 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 December 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: DNA Evidence Ruled Inadmissible as “Investigator Mediated Contamination” Was Possible The court found that a DNA sample found in a firearm case was inadmissible as the police search was conducted incompetently. Click here to read the article The Offence of Shooting a ...
Authorities Continue in Refusal to Disclose Circumstances Surrounding First Nations Death

Authorities Continue in Refusal to Disclose Circumstances Surrounding First Nations Death

The 27 November 2025 marked six months since Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with disabilities, had his life cut short by two plainclothes police officers in Alice Springs Coles, and while the internal Northern Territory police investigation brief of evidence was handed to the NT Director of Public Prosecutions in September 2025, the young ...
Trump and Hegseth Have Been Mass Murdering Foreign Nationals in the Caribbean

Trump and Hegseth Have Been Mass Murdering Foreign Nationals in the Caribbean

Over the 2 September to 15 November 2025, the US Trump administration has killed at least 83 foreign nationals in boats, which involved military strikes upon 22 vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Venezuela. And while the White House claims it is carrying out the operations to stop narcotraffickers, the tactics ...
Shoebridge Calls out the Antisemitism Envoy for Disregarding Nazis and Demonising Palestinians

Shoebridge Calls out the Antisemitism Envoy for Disregarding Nazis and Demonising Palestinians

Greens Senator David Shoebridge drilled the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal, during a 2 December 2025 Senate Estimates hearing, on why she hadn’t made a statement condemning the 60-odd neo-Nazis that protested the “Jewish Lobby” before NSW parliament with police approval, whilst instead she’s well known for having condemned ...
“Opposing the Current State of Policing”: Watch the Cops to Rally Before the Downing Centre

“Opposing the Current State of Policing”: Watch the Cops to Rally Before the Downing Centre

Appearing on social media about a month back, the poster for the Rally Against Police Violence and Overreach, which is being staged by new social justice grouping Watch the Cops on Gadigal land in front of Sydney’s Downing Centre courthouse next week, has garnered much attention and interest as organisers have hit upon an issue that is front and centre ...
First Ever Conviction of an Australian Police Officer Over Aboriginal Death in Custody

First Ever Conviction of an Australian Police Officer Over Aboriginal Death in Custody

A New South Wales police officer was found guilty over the death in custody of Dunghutti teenager Jai Kalani Wright on 28 November 2025, which was not only significant for his family, but the dangerous driving causing death conviction was further consequential, as it was the first time a NSW officer has been convicted over an Aboriginal death, in fact, ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 24 to 30 November 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 24 to 30 November 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Standard of Proof for Alleged Offences in NSW Correctional Centre Has Been Lowered The standard of proof that applies to offences in correctional centres has been reduced from ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ to ‘on the balance of probabilities’. Click here to read the ...
Pennings Reigns Victorious Over Adanis’ Five-Year “Attack Dog” Legal Pursuit

Pennings Reigns Victorious Over Adanis’ Five-Year “Attack Dog” Legal Pursuit

Environmental activist Ben Pennings has come out the other end of a five-year-long legal persecution waged against him by Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani victorious. Pennings signed off on a 26 November 2025 order that ended the yearslong proceedings, as plaintiffs Adani Mining and Carmichael Rail Network dropped the 26 August 2020 filed lawsuit ...
The Great “Antisemitism Crimewave” Was Not Motivated by Prejudice Towards Jews

The Great “Antisemitism Crimewave” Was Not Motivated by Prejudice Towards Jews

A 21-year-old man involved in anti-Israel vandalism on Gadigal land in Sydney’s eastern suburbs in November 2024, has been sentenced to an 11 month intensive correction order (ICO), in respect of a spree that involved graffiti, the damaging of ten cars and the torching of one vehicle, and Sutherland Local Court heard on 25 November 2025, that he wasn’t ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 December 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 December 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: DNA Evidence Ruled Inadmissible as “Investigator Mediated Contamination” Was Possible The court found that a DNA sample found in a firearm case was inadmissible as the police search was conducted incompetently. Click here to read the article The Offence of Shooting a ...

Authorities Continue in Refusal to Disclose Circumstances Surrounding First Nations Death

Authorities Continue in Refusal to Disclose Circumstances Surrounding First Nations Death
The 27 November 2025 marked six months since Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with disabilities, had his life cut short by two plainclothes police officers in Alice Springs Coles, and while the internal Northern Territory police investigation brief of evidence was handed to the NT Director of Public Prosecutions in September 2025, the young ...

Trump and Hegseth Have Been Mass Murdering Foreign Nationals in the Caribbean

Trump and Hegseth Have Been Mass Murdering Foreign Nationals in the Caribbean
Over the 2 September to 15 November 2025, the US Trump administration has killed at least 83 foreign nationals in boats, which involved military strikes upon 22 vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Venezuela. And while the White House claims it is carrying out the operations to stop narcotraffickers, the tactics ...

Shoebridge Calls out the Antisemitism Envoy for Disregarding Nazis and Demonising Palestinians

Shoebridge Calls out the Antisemitism Envoy for Disregarding Nazis and Demonising Palestinians
Greens Senator David Shoebridge drilled the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal, during a 2 December 2025 Senate Estimates hearing, on why she hadn’t made a statement condemning the 60-odd neo-Nazis that protested the “Jewish Lobby” before NSW parliament with police approval, whilst instead she’s well known for having condemned ...

“Opposing the Current State of Policing”: Watch the Cops to Rally Before the Downing Centre

“Opposing the Current State of Policing”: Watch the Cops to Rally Before the Downing Centre
Appearing on social media about a month back, the poster for the Rally Against Police Violence and Overreach, which is being staged by new social justice grouping Watch the Cops on Gadigal land in front of Sydney’s Downing Centre courthouse next week, has garnered much attention and interest as organisers have hit upon an issue that is front and centre ...

First Ever Conviction of an Australian Police Officer Over Aboriginal Death in Custody

First Ever Conviction of an Australian Police Officer Over Aboriginal Death in Custody
A New South Wales police officer was found guilty over the death in custody of Dunghutti teenager Jai Kalani Wright on 28 November 2025, which was not only significant for his family, but the dangerous driving causing death conviction was further consequential, as it was the first time a NSW officer has been convicted over an Aboriginal death, in fact, ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 24 to 30 November 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 24 to 30 November 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Standard of Proof for Alleged Offences in NSW Correctional Centre Has Been Lowered The standard of proof that applies to offences in correctional centres has been reduced from ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ to ‘on the balance of probabilities’. Click here to read the ...

Pennings Reigns Victorious Over Adanis’ Five-Year “Attack Dog” Legal Pursuit

Pennings Reigns Victorious Over Adanis’ Five-Year “Attack Dog” Legal Pursuit
Environmental activist Ben Pennings has come out the other end of a five-year-long legal persecution waged against him by Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani victorious. Pennings signed off on a 26 November 2025 order that ended the yearslong proceedings, as plaintiffs Adani Mining and Carmichael Rail Network dropped the 26 August 2020 filed lawsuit ...

The Great “Antisemitism Crimewave” Was Not Motivated by Prejudice Towards Jews

The Great “Antisemitism Crimewave” Was Not Motivated by Prejudice Towards Jews
A 21-year-old man involved in anti-Israel vandalism on Gadigal land in Sydney’s eastern suburbs in November 2024, has been sentenced to an 11 month intensive correction order (ICO), in respect of a spree that involved graffiti, the damaging of ten cars and the torching of one vehicle, and Sutherland Local Court heard on 25 November 2025, that he wasn’t ...