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 »
Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The Crown case against Usman Chami and co-accused Noah Touma alleges the pair took part in a joint criminal enterprise in relation to the murder Suman Mokhtarian, at 7.47 pm on 20 February 2024, by shooting him at close range outside his gym on Wentworth Avenue, right next door to… 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 »
A recent decision in the Supreme Court of New South Wales has restrained a man from using funds obtained from a client after finding him that he engaged in unqualified legal practice by falsely presenting himself to be a qualified lawyer and creating a fake legal practice, before taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from… 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 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 »