By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim As of 7 July 2025, a new Bail Division that will centralise all weekday first bail hearings for adults whilst in police custody commenced operating in New South Wales. The controversial proposal will initially affect the management of bail matters relating to regional areas throughout the state, prior to… Read more »
Shortly before 10 a.m. on Tuesday 17 June 2025, a burst water main inundated the lower levels of the Downing Centre Court in Sydney’s CBD. The torrent knocked out electricity, IT networks, lifts and other critical infrastructure, forcing an immediate evacuation. Two people were briefly trapped in lifts and the entire court complex which comprises… Read more »
The Chief Magistrate of New South Wales, his Honour Judge Michael Allan, has published a statement on 18 June 2025 regarding how listed cases in Downing Centre Local Court will be handled after a power outage caused by a burst water main. The statement can be summarized as follows: The Downing Centre Local Court has… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Between the 5 May and 15 June 2023, Andrew Tanswell and George Leilua carried out a criminal enterprise that involved contacting men over gay dating app Grindr on the pretence they were one man interested in a sexual encounter, and on organising a meeting at the victim’s house, Tanswell… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In November 2019, then NSW police detective senior constable Jesse Porter received information from the NSW Sex Crimes Unit relating to a complaint lodged by a high-ranking police officer from another state. The complaint involved allegations that a Sydney lawyer aged in his fifties had sexually assaulted the high-ranking… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Sean Charney, Peter Whipp and Scott Chandler parked a hired Toyota RAV4 outside an IGA store in the small town of Buxton, southwest of Sydney. The three men entered the store to look around, and several hours later, as the married couple who owned the store, closed up and… Read more »
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 »