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The NSW Council for Civil Liberties was established in the closing months of 1963. The organisation came into being in response to a police raid on a Kings Cross party, a raid without a warrant. Among the partygoers was Ken Buckley, a Senior Lecturer in Economic History at University of Sydney.
On April 14, 2014, it was reported that the NSW Council for Civil Liberties and the NSW opposition were concerned about the lack of oversight into reporting after Ombudsman Bruce Barbour found police were breaching the Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW) by recording outside warrant terms and failing to report back to judges and the Attorney ...
Later in the 1960s he became a founding member NSW Council for Civil Liberties (CCL), which included prominent members of the NSW legal profession such as Maurice Byers and Neville Wran. [10] Staples took on numerous briefs assigned to him by the CCL, many of them pro bono, advocating for freedoms in areas of human rights. [2]
He is best known for his role as the President of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties from 1999–2013 and was endorsed as the ALP candidate in the seat of East Hills for the March 2015 and March 2019 NSW state elections, which he narrowly lost. He was the seventh person elected to the NSW Legislative Council at the 2023 NSW state election.
Pirate Party Australia is a political party in Australia that had traditionally represented civil liberty issues, but had also expanded into more traditional areas of policy. [4] It was a Pirate Party which was based on the Pirate Party of Sweden , and continued to develop a comprehensive policy platform since its formation based on the Pirate ...
He became President of the NSW Council of Civil Liberties "but within weeks" he was then appointed Justice of the New South Wales Supreme Court. Hope was finally made a Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court, the highest court in the New South Wales judiciary system in 1972, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.
Members of the Alliance included the NSW Law Society, NSW Young Lawyers, the Public Service Association, the NSW Council for Civil Liberties and the NSW Welfare Rights Centre. [30] A study in 2011 found that between 1999 and 2008, there had been a decline in the percentage of cases where bail was given without any conditions attached.
[4]: 183–186 Writing to the Ombudsman, the NSW Council for Civil Liberties said, "It is the view of the [Council] that it is an invasion of privacy, harassment, and an illegal search to use dogs to sniff people chosen randomly".