Ombudsman report finds Revenue NSW engaged in ‘maladministration’ by taking money directly out of millions of bank accounts. The New South Wales government’s debt collection agency broke the law when it used an automated system to withdraw money from millions of bank accounts to claw back unpaid fines, a scathing report has found. The NSW ombudsman Paul Miller’s report, released on Tuesday, found Revenue NSW’s use of AI to generate garnishee orders broke the law from its introduction in 2016 until 2019, and that it was “wrong” until March 2022. A garnishee order is when Revenue NSW takes money directly out of people’s

Enforcing a judgment debt in New South Wales refers to the legal processes that a creditor can undertake to compel a debtor to pay what they owe pursuant to the orders contained within a court judgment.   When a creditor has obtained a judgment against a debtor and the debtor fails to pay the judgment debt amount voluntarily after being issued with post judgment demands for payment, there are several enforcement measures available under NSW law. Laws in other states have similar enforcement methods but for the purposes of this article we will concentrate on NSW enforcement procedures.   The three methods for enforcing