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Fines worth millions of dollars for Covid public health order breaches could be overturned following a landmark test case in the New South Wales Supreme Court.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's largest state will withdraw or refund tens of thousands of fines issued during the COVID pandemic after government lawyers conceded on Tuesday that some fines were invalid in a test case brought by a legal advocacy group.
Rohan Pank took his encounter with four police officers in Sydney Park at Alexandria during the height of the city's Covid restrictions all the way to the New South Wales Supreme Court.
The major concession made in the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday opens the door for more than 30,000 other COVID fines to be cancelled, a barrister argued.
The fines, representing just over half of all COVID-19 fines issued in NSW, will be refunded if they have already been paid.