Sydney Man Onitolosi Etuini Atiai Latu, aged 31, who was found guilty of the murdering his girlfriend Rhonda Baker in August 2016 has been sentenced to 28 years behind bars, with a non-parole period of 21 years. The maximum sentence for murder in New south Wales is life imprisonment, with a standard non-parole period (SNPP)… Read more »
NSW Courts Articles
The Crime of Larceny in New South Wales
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Following the weekend beginning 3 May 2014, Wallabadah service station owner Ivan Hulbert was not a happy man, as he’d basically worked for free over the two day period, after a total of five motorists had failed to pay for their fuel and simply driven off at his New… Read more »
The Crime of Break, Enter and Steal in NSW
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Lake Macquarie police are currently searching for a Caucasian man of about 175 cm tall. The man in his 40s – who’s of medium build and has brown hair – ran from police, when they startled him at a building site in Cardiff on Sunday morning. The local officers… Read more »
Cybercrime and computer offences in NSW
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A 15-year-old student named Jessie left her Bega school in early 2018, after she was bullied by another student, both in person and online. The girl’s parents felt they had no choice but to place their daughter in another school, as staff at the current one failed to take… Read more »
Prosecution Must Serve All Relevant Evidence on Defence
By Ugur Nedim and Zeb Holmes The Supreme Court of New South Wales has compelled the Commissioner of Police to serve the criminal histories of prosecution witnesses, despite objections by police. The judgment serves as a reminder that the prosecution is legally required to serve all relevant materials upon the defence. Facts of the case… Read more »
Sydney Man Awarded Damages for Illegal Strip Search
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 3.30 am on 24 March 2015, Steven Attalla was sitting on a stone wall out the front of a church on Bourke Street in Darlinghurst, smoking a cigarette and sending a text message to a friend, when a police car drove up and parked in a side… Read more »
Family Court Fails Vulnerable Children
A review of the Family Law system has been scathing in its criticism of court orders, finding that the Family Court is systematically failing children it’s supposed to be protecting. When James* was just six years old, the Family Court of Australia ordered that he live with his abusive father, a man who’s documented file… Read more »
The Egging of Scott Morrison: A Case of Common Assault
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Yarrawonga woman Amber Holt was driving to work on 7 May, when she heard over the car radio that prime minister Scott Morrison was attending the Country Women Association’s state conference at the Albury Entertainment Centre. The 24-year-old Cotton On employee pulled her car over at a Coles supermarket…. Read more »
The Crime of Attempted Murder in New South Wales
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At the age of 28, George Dean was the captain of the Possum: a night ferry that ran between Circular Quay and Milsons Point. Born in the NSW town of Albury, Dean was well-respected in the public eye, as he’d saved several passengers from drowning in the harbour. The… Read more »
The Law on Drug Possession in NSW
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 1.30 am on 27 March, NSW police spotted two people acting suspiciously in a Holden Colorado in an industrial area in North Wyong. And the officers proceeded to follow the vehicle into the driveway of an empty petrol station on the Pacific Highway. A man in the… Read more »