Cheema v NSW

[2020] NSWCA 190

NSW Court of Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Criminal Law
2. › Extended supervision orders
3. › Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 (NSW)
4. › Convicted NSW terrorism activity offender
5. › Whether appellant fell within definition
6. › Whether posting on Facebook of image associated with Islamic State engaged deeming provision
7. › Whether 'images or symbols' excluded alpha-numeric images
8. › Whether association must be discernible from image in isolation
9. › Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 (NSW), ss 10, 10(1A)(a)(ii), 20
1. Criminal Law
2. › Extended supervision orders
3. › Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 (NSW)
4. › Standard of satisfaction
5. › Whether primary judge applied heightened standard of 'high degree of probability'
6. › Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 (NSW), s 20(d)
1. Constitutional Law (Cth)
2. › Implied freedom of political communication
3. › Structured proportionality analysis
4. › Whether deeming provision in terrorism legislation burdened political communication
5. › Whether burden established where no evidence of material inhibition of political communication
6. › Whether provision reasonably appropriate and adapted to advance legitimate object
7. › Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 (NSW), s 10(1A)(a)(ii)
1. Criminal Law
2. › Extended supervision orders
3. › Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 (NSW)
4. › Construction of deeming provision
5. › Whether s 10(1A)(a)(ii) required images or symbols to directly advocate support for terrorism
6. › Whether provision extended to images associated with terrorist organisation even if not themselves advocating support
7. › Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 (NSW), ss 10(1)(c)(i), 10(1A)(a)(ii)

Quick Take

Practitioners advising clients subject to the Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 (NSW) should note that the deeming provision in s 10(1A)(a)(ii) extends to any use or display of images or symbols (including words and numbers) associated with a terrorist organisation, without requiring that the images themselves directly advocate support for terrorism, and that the association need not be discernible from the image alone but may be established by surrounding context.