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NEW laws designed to help police break up bikie gangs are open to abuse because they allow police to punish anyone who associates with people who have been convicted of a criminal offence in the past, a legal expert warns.

Alex Steel, an associate professor of criminal law at the University of NSW, said the planned legislation could be selectively enforced by police to discriminate, including against people in Aboriginal communities.

''The problem is this legislation casts the net so widely so that everyone who has been convicted of an indictable offence is on tenterhooks for the rest of their life,'' he said.

''It undercuts the notion that someone who has done their time can start again in life.''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/bikie-laws-open-to-abuse-says-law-expert-20120219-1th8b.html#ixzz1mtud0YIu
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