By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At about half past midnight on 28 January 2018, NSW police constable Ward, senior constable Aston and probationary constable Pranic were patrolling the Sydney suburb of Paddington in an unmarked car, which had been driving behind a grey Mazda, prior to turning onto another street. However, as Ward later claimed,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The High Court ruled against an application for writs, official court orders, on 10 May 2023, which were submitted by Stephanie Coady, and included a request to overturn a 2022 Federal Court decision not to extend time to appeal a 2019 decision, as well as another to determine a… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Sydney solicitor Danny Eid requested in email to the New South Wales Local Court registry in October 2022, that Magistrate Hugh Donnelly “not preside” over a secondary application as the judicial member had already dealt with the hearing of a mental health application in respect of a client. The… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The overbearing law enforcement approach to the COVID pandemic, which had a focus on criminalising those who didn’t follow health restrictions, via the widespread imposition of draconian fines that were issued seemingly with no discretion and in the most absurd of circumstances. Following the passing of the pandemic, as… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In the early hours of 21 April 2008, a series of altercations between two groups of young men and youths in the vicinity of Granville railway station took place. One group, described as being of “Islander appearance”, included Edward Spowart and Firoz Mohammed, while the other, said to be… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In February 2019, a then 15-year-old girl began karate classes taught by NSW instructor Mark Passmore for “about three weeks” commencing on the 4th of that month. The teen complained to NSW police on the 19th, that the then 66-year-old man had made an indecent comment to her. During… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim NSW schoolteacher Emma Tiller was having difficulty with a year 2 student in the class she’d been assigned to teach over 2021. And whilst it was her second year teaching this class, an 8-year-old boy she was having difficulty with was new to the school. In March, Tiller was… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Australia is the only liberal democracy that doesn’t have a national act or charter enshrining and protecting basic human rights in domestic law, which means that while our government has agreed to uphold such rights at the international level, it has made no such commitment to its citizens. The… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Emmanuel Rubasha and Obed Guise were in Bankstown on the evening of 20 November 2019, waiting for Jesse Curuenavuli to pick them up in his mother’s car. Travelling with Curuenavuli were two others, Brooke Mohi and Albert Nitiva. The trio travelling in the car collided with another in Bankstown,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim NSW police executed a search warrant on 15 April 2020, at a house in Yagoona, where Quoc Toan Chu lived with his parents. When officers arrived at the premises, Chu indicated which room was his. And when asked if that was where the drugs were hidden, he replied, “Just… Read more »
