By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Along with senior constable Rankin, then NSW police acting sergeant Fahey attended a NSW Northern Rivers region property at Warrazambil Creek on 24 August 2021, in relation to an email detective inspector Greenwood received suggesting a potential illegal gathering may take place. The legality of the gathering or possible… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In response to a broad debate about sexual violence towards women both globally and across the country, as well as a local focus around the 2013 alleged Lazarus sexual assault case in Kings Cross, new sexual consent laws took effect in NSW on 1 June last year. Passed in November the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In early 2018, Sydney man James Barnes spotted a woman walking alone through Sydney University at around 8 pm. After having finished work for the day, she was making her way towards Parramatta Road in order to catch a bus to Ashfield, where she lived. Barnes followed her, catching… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Prior to empanelling a jury for the 2007 trialling of Izhar Ul-Haque on a charge of training with a known terrorist organisation, NSW Supreme Court Justice Michael Adams had to make voir dire determination, which is a decision on whether evidence before a court is admissible. The evidence in question… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Releasing its final findings in late 2017, the third coronial inquest into the death of US mathematician Scott Johnson, whose body was found at the base of Blue Fish Point in the Sydney suburb of Manly on 10 December 1988, determined it was the result of a gay hate crime…. Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 17 January 2017, NSW man Tony Nash made a complaint to the NSW Legal Services Commissioner about a delay in receiving trust money relating to the sale of his property from solicitor Barbara Ann Green, who’d been acting on his behalf regarding the transaction. On taking over the case,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The Australian Government Disaster Relief Payment (AGDRP) is a one-off $1,000 amount provided to Australian residents impacted by a disaster. And due to the circumstances victims of disasters face, proof of identity doesn’t need to be cited immediately, but rather within 28 days of applying. Over the period 15… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim NSW police minister Paul Toole told the NSW lower house on 21 September that he understands that “serious organised criminal groups” are these days using “professional money launderers”, who benefit from a level of “strategic ignorance” about the origins of the money they’re cleaning. These circumstances then create a barrier… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 29 October 2018, Griffith Base Hospital staff found multiple wounds and bruising on the body of 13-month-old Ella. The child was acting lethargic, and she was unable to open her eyes. This was in stark contrast to how she had presented at the same hospital two days prior…. Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The trial into whether Paul Anthony Watson murdered William Chaplin sometime between 31 March and 30 May 2010 in the southwestern NSW town of Gerogery commenced on 5 September this year in the NSW Supreme Court, with three weeks set aside for it. The Crown had closed its case… Read more »
