More Than 33,000 COVID-19 Fines Will Be Binned After The NSW Govt Agreed They Were Invalid

More than 33,000 COVID-19 fines will be cancelled in NSW after two test cases in the state’s Supreme Court. The legal challenge was brought by the Redfern Legal Centre, which repped three plaintiffs. Now, Revenue NSW made the call to cancel certain fines issued when the state had public health orders in place over lockdown. 9News reported that in court, the lawyer for the Commissioner of Fines Administration conceded the fines didn’t “sufficiently state or describe the offences in general terms”. They also didn’t identify the “offence-creating decision”. To put that in simpler terms, the fines in question were legally invalid because they didn’t describe what offence had taken place specifically enough. Lawyer Katherine Richardson