Posts By: Sydney Criminal Lawyers

Sentence Reduced as Judge Failed to Inform the Defence He Rejected a Psychological Assessment

Supreme Court of NSW

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police officers executed a search warrant upon a premises and vehicle in the southern Sydney suburb of Carlton that belonged to Alexandre Da Silva on 29 September 2022. Da Silva was under police observation, when he drove to a western Sydney suburb to pick up a… Read more »

Sentence Reduced as Judge Failed to Find that Immediate Admissions Count as Assistance to Police

Sentencing discounts for assisting Police

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Joshua Dennis approached the reception counter at the Adina Apartments in Wollongong at 3.05 am on 30 August 2022, and he commenced conversing with night manager Amos Baker. After a few minutes of speaking, however, 40-year-old Dennis then walked around to the other side of the counter and punched… Read more »

Attempted Murder Sentence Reduced as Judge Misapplied Principle of Totality

Principle of Totality Sentencing

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A member of the Sydney Hamzy crime family asked a 23-year-old male individual that he’d befriended in early 2021, to partner up with a second person to kill members of the Alameddine criminal network. Four people were on the hitlist. The payment was $2 million for one killed, and… Read more »

Appeal Against Commercial Drug Importation Succeeds as Judge Misdirected the Jury

Law courts

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Following an investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intercepted a commercial dough mixer on 27 September 2021, which had been bought by local business Nella Cutlery, from another in the Canadian city of Toronto to be shipped to the Australian city of Brisbane,… Read more »

Appeal Against Sentence for Fraud Succeeds, as Judge Failed to Consider Drug Dependency

Supreme Court

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Over March to July 2020, NSW Riverina region man Brodie O’Hanlon made 70 claims for payments under various relief schemes run by Services Australia, such as the Australian Government Disaster Relief Payment, the Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment and the Disaster Recovery Allowance. These claims, however, that resulted in his… Read more »

Supreme Court Judgment Permitting the Sydney Harbour Bridge March for Humanity to Proceed

Sydney Harbour Bridge March Gaza

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Palestine Action Group (PAG) organiser Josh Lees lodged a notice of intention to hold a public assembly, under section 23 of the Summary Offences Act 1988 (NSW) (the Act), with the NSW Police Force on 26 July 2025. PAG was planning a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on… Read more »

Courts Must Consider Relevant Financial Burden When Sentencing for Fraud Offences

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By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Romanian man Alexandru Badaric came to Sydney in April 2023 and was joined by his partner and co-offender Izabela Vintila in June. The pair received two shimming devices posted from London in July 2023. Shimming devices are strips of metal placed on an ATM, which record the data on… Read more »

Crown Inadequacy Appeal Against Killer Cop Fails

Fatal tasering acquittal

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim During sentencing in March 2025, NSW Chief Judge at Common Law Andrew Bell explained that former NSW police constable Kristian White had made “an error of judgement”, when he tasered 95-year-old grandmother Clare Nowland at the Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in the NSW town of Cooma on 17… Read more »

Police Interviews Excluded as Officers Failed to Issue Formal Caution

Police investigation

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Clinton Wrigley appeared before New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Mark Ierace in April 2025, in relation to questions about the admissibility of a 28 February 2023 police interview and related body-worn video (BWV) footage as evidence during Wrigley’s upcoming trial in relation to the 23 February 2023 murder… Read more »