NSW Courts Articles

NSW Police Officer Who Fatally Tasered Great-Grandmother Avoids Prison: The Reasoning

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Clare Nowland, a 95-year-old great-grandmother suffering dementia, was walking around the Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in the NSW town of Cooma early morning on 17 May 2023, when the great-grandmother was captured on CCTV entering a kitchen area and picking up two small knives and a jar of… Read more »

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The Church is Not Liable for Child Sexual Abuse by Priests, as Clergy Are Not Employees

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim DP was only 5 years old in 1971, when he alleges he was sexually assaulted by a Catholic priest visiting his parents in the southwestern Victorian town of Port Fairy. Over two visits to the family home in the capacity of an assistant parish priest at the St Patricks… Read more »

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The Rules for Determining Applications for Judge-Alone Trials in NSW

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 9 December 2022, 18-year-old Bailey Jones was at the Bomaderry home of the family of his 21-year-old cousin, Dominic Saliba, with some other friends.  During the evening, Saliba and Jones were said to have started “slapboxing”. Each of the men were then seen to hold various containers filled… Read more »

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The Laws and Protocols Governing the Use of Force by Police in New South Wales

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The unique aspect of law enforcement is that the state allows officers of the law to legally apply physical force or violence towards civilians, and, in the case of the NSW Police Force (NSWPF), this permission to commit acts of force, otherwise illegal, in the line of duty, is… Read more »

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An Evaluation of the NSW Drug Supply Prohibition Order Pilot Scheme

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim An appraisal of the Berejiklian government enacted two-year drug supply prohibition order (DSPO) pilot scheme, which commenced in May 2022 in four regions throughout New South Wales, has found that although the initiative resulted in a “small number of orders and convictions made”, most stakeholders consulted on its effectiveness… Read more »

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