NSW Courts Articles

Despite Falling Crime Rates, Police Are Criminally Charging More People Than Ever Before

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Rates of reported crime have been trending downwards in New South Wales for the past twenty years, yet this hasn’t resulted in the notorious backlog in criminal cases waiting to proceed having decreased, as, over the last decade or so, the New South Wales Police Force has been increasing… Read more »

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Malicious Prosecution Does Not Apply to Apprehended Domestic Violence Orders

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Darren Rock commenced proceedings in the NSW District Court on 10 August 2020 against his wife Kim Henderson for malicious prosecution in respect of her having applied for a final apprehended domestic violence order (ADVO) and trespass, following he and their two kids returning home on 16 July 2019,… Read more »

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Commonwealth Mental Illness Applications: A Wide Range of Treatment Options Are Available

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Former Optus employee Daniel Skapik was convicted on 14 November 2023, on two counts of unauthorised access of restricted data and one of unlawfully disclosing information, which both related to his having pried into the client account of Olivia Cameron, the partner of Joshua Wooton, and then providing Wooton,… Read more »

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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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