By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The New South Wales government passed its second version of its ‘places of worship’ move on power for the NSW police toolkit in late November 2025, after the initial version was struck down by the Supreme Court in October 2025 on the basis it unjustifiably infringed the right of… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A former Australian soldier met with a sex worker on 9 August 2023, for the third time in roughly a month. But unlike the first two occasions on which the pair met, when the man paid the woman for her services, he handed her a receipt which fraudulently suggested… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Western Australian police officers executed a search warrant on 21 August 2019, on the number 8 storage unit at Billabong Self Storage facility located on Cutler Road in the Perth suburb of Jandakot. The search was carried out in front of Darcey Doyle, who was one of two people… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The New South Wales parliament passed legislation on 21 November 2025 which lowers the standard of proof that applies to determinations of correctional centre offences made by prison governors relating to offences, so that the criminal standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” is now the civil standard of being… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim David Beeby was engaged in a series of exchanges with a male known as “Jeremy” over the Grindr hookup app at his Terrigal home on the NSW Central Coast at around 11.30 pm on 24 January 2024, when Jeremy made it known to David, who went by the username… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The principle of doli incapax is a common law presumption in NSW that considers children under 14 years of age lack the capacity to be criminally responsible for their acts. A review of the operation of doli incapax in NSW was launched by state attorney general Michael Daley in… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Justice Richard Cavanagh handed down the 12 September 2025 judgement in a civil suit to award plaintiff Luke Brett Moore $456,160 and also ordered that the defendant, the state of New South Wales, pay his legal costs in the case that involved New South Wales police having falsely imprisoning… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The NSW Police Force announced on 3 October 2025 that it would be challenging the notification of a public protest lodged by Palestine Action Group, which sought to hold a public rally calling for an end to the Gaza genocide two years after it commenced, as the agency cited… Read more »
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 »
The New South Wales parliament has passed legislation which expands the scope of child sexual offences, child abuse material offences and female genital mutilation offences, as well as enables the conviction of a person for sexual offences and interfering with a corpse where it is uncertain as to whether the victim was alive or deceased… Read more »