By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales man Hayden Brown appeared before Blacktown Local Court in July 2025, after he’d been arrested and charged with having a concealed knife in public, following NSW police officers having spotted a group of young people wearing dark clothing at about 2.20 am on a Friday morning,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Lucas Delaney and his sister Gabrielle lived together in a detached flat on a property in the Sydney western suburb of Cambridge Park in June 2020, while their brother, Damien, and his wife, Ms Tomkins, lived in the main house on the property, and a cousin of the siblings,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On her father’s passing in 1999, Mary Willis inherited two houses on a street in the Sydney inner west suburb of Rozelle. These were numbers 5 and 7 on a street, while her brother, Martin, inherited numbers 9 and 11 on that same street. But the pair had been… Read more »
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 »
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 »