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 »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim As the state’s top judge, New South Wales Chief Justice Andrew Bell, gave the annual opening of the law term address on 6 February 2025, his Honour identified a number of threats to maintaining the rule of law in the jurisdiction of New South Wales, which range from the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The High Court of Australia found on 6 November 2024 that the imposition of curfews and electronic monitoring that the Australian executive government had legislated as warranted in regard to some of a cohort of former immigration detainees released since November 2023 is illegal, as applying these punitive measures… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police officers attended the residence of Jason Fear on 3 August 2021 to conduct a routine inspection under the Child Protection (Offenders Registration) Act 2000 (NSW), which establishes the NSW Child Protection Register that lists former inmates who’ve offended against children in a sexual or other… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A NSW man referred to as Cook, not his real name, was convicted of 17 child sex offences by the NSW District Court in 2019, with the victim-survivor being his then wife’s niece, who was aged 9 to 11 over the course of the offending said to have occurred… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police sergeant Matthew Kelly was driving a marked police car near Warnervale on the NSW Central Coast at around 2.20 pm on 16 April 2020, when he spotted a motorcycle ridden by Jack Roberts travelling along Sparks Road towards the entrance to the Pacific Motorway. Kelly… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police officers found the body of Molly Ticehurst in the town of Forbes on 22 April this year, before taking her former partner Daniel Billings into custody and charging him with the offence of murder, which he allegedly committed whilst out on bail in relation to… Read more »
The last two decades has seen numerous pieces of anti-money laundering and proceeds of crime legislation enacted by the federal parliament, as well as state and territory legislatures across the nation. These laws are ostensibly aimed at preventing the financial proceeds of criminal activity being ‘laundered’, meaning used to fund investments in assets such as… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In a 4 July 2022 letter on drug driving laws, Drive Change campaign lead David Heilpern explained to NSW Labor MLC Chris Rath that when he was a NSW Magistrate, he’d sentenced “literally hundreds of defendants”, who were on cannabis medicine yet convicted over drug driving. Indeed, part of… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim NSW police were again called to attend the home of Sandra Wornes on 28 July 2019, as the 46-year-old woman had once more physically assaulted her long-term partner Mr Robson. Wornes, who suffers from a personality disorder, had grabbed the 47-year-old man by the neck and punched him. Despite… Read more »