Charges laid under a now defunct law against people who attended a Sydney protest against Isaac Herzog will be dropped, police have confirmed, but it remains unclear how many of the 30 protesters charged the decision affects. The New South Wales police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, said on ABC Radio on Wednesday morning that, pending a review, police would drop charges laid under the public assembly restriction declaration (Pard) law. That law was in force during the February protest at Sydney’s town hall against the Israeli president’s visit to Australia and was cited by police as the reason a march could not go ahead. Last month, the court of appeal struck down the Pard law , ruling in favour of the Palestine Action Group and Blak Caucus, and finding giving police the power to restrict all protests for a period of 90 days after a terrorist attack was unconstitutional.…