By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim An enforcement application was before Federal Circuit and Family Court Judge Amanda Humphreys on 19 July 2024, which had been filed on behalf of a Ms Mallick on 29 May 2024 and related to final property orders that had been consented to in November 2023. An enforcement hearing takes… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Criminal Law
The Guideline Judgment on Break and Enter Offences in New South Wales
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal handed down a guideline judgment in relation to sentencing for break, enter and steal, contrary to section 112(1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) on 16 December 1999. And this offence then carried 14 years, but these days, makes one liable to 12… Read more »
NSW Police Officer Falsely Accused Man of Making Death Threats, Court Finds
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police officers attempted to conduct an unlawful strip search on Australian citizen Luke Brett Moore in April 2017, in a van in front of Goulburn’s Hibernian Hotel. But Moore knew his rights and resisted the search. He was then charged with hindering police and convicted in… Read more »
Prior Sexual Experience Is Admissible if a Relationship is Established at Time of Offending
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A NSW man referred to as Cook, not his real name, was convicted of 17 child sex offences by the NSW District Court in 2019, with the victim-survivor being his then wife’s niece, who was aged 9 to 11 over the course of the offending said to have occurred… Read more »
New South Wales Police Officers and the Offence of Perverting the Course of Justice
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A New South Wales police inspector from a specialist command left after an 8-hour-long heavy drinking session with colleagues at a couple of Sydney CBD bars, but instead of spending the night at the hotel he’d checked into, the inspector collected his bags from his room, got in his… Read more »
Fraud Offences Involving the Breach of a Position of Trust Require a Significant Penalty
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim After having worked at financial planning and investment company Sentinel Wealth for three years, Gavin Fineff became a financial planner in 2013, and by 2019, he was earning a substantial income plus bonuses and had 120 clients. And he’d even acquired a minority financial stake in the business. However,… Read more »
NSW Police Must Speedily Bring Bail-Refused Arrestees Before the Local Court
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Callum McLaughlin was arrested by NSW police on 2 May 2020 and taken to Surry Hills police station. And that day’s custody manager, Sergeant Stanton, placed the intoxicated man in a holding cell, due to his state. McLaughlin was then charged at 1 pm with one count of common… Read more »
Jarryd Hayne’s Successful Sexual Assault Appeal: The Reasoning Behind the Judgment
by Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Former Rugby League football star Jarryd Hayne stood trial three times in the District Court of New South Wales accused of sexual assault offences alleged to have been committed in 2018. After the first jury was ‘hung’, meaning it could not reach a verdict, he was twice found guilty,… Read more »
Historical Sexual Assault: The Laws at the Time of the Alleged Conduct Apply
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim When the 10-year-old boy entered Year 5 at a New South Wales Catholic primary school in 1977, there would have been some level of familiarity between him and his teacher, Gaye Grant, as she knew his family outside of teaching at the educational institution she’d been working at since… Read more »
Domestic Violence Bail Amendments: A Kneejerk Reaction to a Far Deeper Social Problem
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police officers found the body of Molly Ticehurst in the town of Forbes on 22 April this year, before taking her former partner Daniel Billings into custody and charging him with the offence of murder, which he allegedly committed whilst out on bail in relation to… Read more »