by nyst-admin | 15/10/2021 | Criminal Law, Privacy
Are police watching your Facebook, looking at your private health records, banking details, and email addresses? Are they modifying or copying your data and posts without your knowledge, or forcing you to hack others on their behalf? If they didn’t have the...
by nyst-admin | 14/07/2021 | Criminal Law, Human Rights
In this day and age, virtually everyone has high quality audio-visual recording equipment right at their fingertips. Our ever-ready mobile phone can record and disseminate information worldwide with the click of one or two buttons. So it’s perhaps no wonder so...
by nyst-admin | 05/05/2021 | Criminal Law
As the proud father, and principal of Nyst Legal, I am extremely chuffed to be able to announce that this week, for the second year in succession, my youngest son, and Nyst Legal Senior Associate, Jonathan Nyst, has been shortlisted as one of the finalists in the...
by nyst-admin | 05/02/2021 | Criminal Law
The familiar legal adage “Hard cases make bad law” dates back at least as far as the early 1800s. It points to the danger of reacting to an extreme case by making a general, harsh and inflexible law to cover all cases. Wisdom dictates, the adage suggests,...
by nyst-admin | 11/05/2020 | Criminal Law
Nyst Legal Associate Jonathan Nyst was this week shortlisted as one of 10 finalists in the Criminal Law division of the national Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards. Lawyers Weekly’s 30 Under 30 program awards the rising stars of the Australian legal industry,...
by nyst-admin | 24/04/2020 | Criminal Law, Opinion
With COVID-19 directives flying thick and fast from both federal and state institutions, many of us may be getting a little confused about precisely what we can and can’t do, as a matter of law. Every day, someone asks my advice about the fine detail – “Can I...
