By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales parliament passed a law on 7 May 2026 that abolished the ability of the courts to consider the prior good character of those convicted of sexual offences as a mitigating factor – in other words, a factor that can lead to a lesser penalty – during… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In response to the findings of the June 2024 NSW Crime Commission Project Hakka report, the NSW government has introduced legislation aimed at preventing domestic violence (DV) perpetrators from using tracking devices to covertly surveil intimate partners, along with outlawing other forms of covert stalking. The NSW attorney general… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Mohammed Syed was employed as an assistant accountant by Crosby Textor Research Strategies Results (CTRSR), a subsidiary of UK registered CT Group, in October 2008. He was promoted to CTRSR financial controller in September 2009, and by February 2018, he’d risen to become the financial controller of CT Group,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The legal challenge to the New South Wales government’s December 2025-passed public assembly restriction declaration or PARD law, which allowed the NSW police commissioner to restrict protest marches, was such a high-profile case that much of the state is already aware it succeeded in seeing the impugned provisions struck… Read more »
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 Toby Weekes, Jackson Chaker and a number of other individuals had been engaged in an unlawful commercial cannabis enterprise in regional communities in central west New South Wales over 2021 through to 2022. And after the operation was closed down, Weekes was charged with four counts of supplying a… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Former Duke of York, Prince Andrew, who is now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested by police on 19 February 2026 over suspicion of misconduct in public office in relation to information that emerged from the US Department of Justice’s release on 30 January 2026 of 3 million files… Read more »
by Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In a move that has long been demanded by victim advocacy groups and is based upon a recommendation contained in a New South Wales Sentencing Council report of July 2025, the state government has introduced legislation that would prohibit the use of ‘good character’ as a factor which has… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The 2025/26 summer holidays were completely different to any other in recent memory, as they commenced with the horror of the 14 December Bondi Beach massacre, and in the wake of this act of terrorism, both the federal and NSW parliaments reconvened to pass a swag of laws that… Read more »
As of Wednesday, 21 January 2026, senior New South Wales police officers had issued public safety orders (PSO) to at least 12 neo-Nazis in the Greater Sydney area, ordering them to keep a wide berth from the city’s CBD and its surrounds on 26 January 2026, as their presence at a planned antiimmigration rally on… Read more »