By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In mid-May, news hit that western Sydney is in the grips of a gang war, which involves feuding between the Alameddine and Hamzy families, and has resulted in 13 dead gang members. So, the NSW Police Force has launched Taskforce Erebus in response. In its first week, Erebus had reportedly… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Dedicated refugee rights advocate Shane Bazzi posted a tweet late night on 25 February last year, which stated, “Peter Dutton is a rape apologist”. The tweet also featured a link to a June 2019 Guardian article titled, Peter Dutton Says Women Using Rape and Abortion Claims as Ploy to Get… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim As is well understood, Australia, along with the EU, the US, the UK, NZ, and a number of other nations, such as Japan and South Korea, have placed heavy sanctions upon the Russian Federation to punish it over its invasion of Ukraine. India has not, but our PM Scott Morrison… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 3.30 pm on 17 January 2020, Brendan Gilbert Wood and George Layton entered Kelly’s Asian Flower brothel posing as customers. Whilst alone in the waiting area, the pair donned face coverings, Layton armed himself with an axe and a machete, whilst Wood held a machete. In threatening… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The latest NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) custody figures, which relate to the 2021 December quarter, reveal that in this state 43 percent of all young people being held in youth detention are First Nations children. This is despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids only accounting… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A barrister since 1995, Michael Rollinson received an email from the NSW Bar Association on 2 July 2021 directing him to cease practising as he’d failed to pay the full fees to annually renew his practising certificate. He was told that if he didn’t stop, he’d be in breach… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Recently appointed NSW Chief Justice Andrew Bell has issued a revised set of COVID protocols pertaining specifically to the NSW Supreme Court, and another set that distinctly deals with the running of criminal jury trials within the state’s highest court. These updated protocols took effect on 4 April. The onset of COVID-19 in… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 9 April 2009, Simon Monteiro was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for the aggravated sexual assault of his then girlfriend in her Bellevue Hill apartment on 2 January 2008. The rape was aggravated because the offender inflicted actual bodily harm before the non-consensual sex assault. The State Parole Authority granted… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Charles Smith had just finished dinner with his mother when he attended the pokies room at the Quakers Hill Inn, with the allotted $50 he’d allowed himself to gamble on the machines. Thomas Maloney, an associate of his, who shared friends in common, was also trying his luck at… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A 17 to 18th of December 2014 meeting of some Australian Muslim men in their early 20s was occurring in in the garage of the Regent’s Park family home of Sulayman Khalid, which involved them planning a series of serious terrorist attacks on Sydney’s AFP building and Lithgow Prison. Later… Read more »
