By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Both coming into effect on 1 July 2015, the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) (the Uniform Law) and the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules 2015 (the Conduct Rules), establish the rules that regulate the conduct of lawyers in New South Wales, over and above the responsibilities… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Sometime after 8 pm on 15 January 2022, the then 14-year-old Thomas entered the kitchen, where his mother SJ was making him dinner and his then 51-year-old stepfather SR was also present, with the older couple having recently returned from a six-hour-long celebratory lunch and drinks. SR commenced calling… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Ibrahim Ghazzawy was living in Sydney and is said to have adopted the Islamic State political outlook by the age of 18, at which point, in early 2014, he had his passport seized by Australian authorities as he planned to fly to Morocco, as it was claimed he sought… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Two incidents in 2016 that involved spit hoods in certain Australian jurisdictions brought the issue of the controversial use of these antiquated devices to national and global attention. The first was the airing of the Four Corners documentary Australia’s Shame, which featured imagery of a shirtless 17-year-old Aboriginal boy strapped to… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Legendary Sydney whistleblower Sallie-Anne Huckstepp knew her time was up after she’d accussed NSW police detective sergeant Roger Rogerson of killing her boyfriend, heroin dealer Warren Lanfranchi, during a 1981 interview with 60 Minutes. Such was the reputation of the notorious Sydney police officer, who died on 21 January, after suffering… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim What possessed Matthew Laba to pose as a registered Sydney criminal lawyer and represent four clients across four separate criminal cases in courts across the Greater Sydney region over a period of months, continues to remain a mystery. Indeed, it’s been lost upon no one that the television series Suits,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Ngarrindjeri and Narungga man Derek Bromley was sentenced to life imprisonment by the South Australian Supreme Court on 14 March 1985, for the murder of Stephen Docoza, who was bludgeoned to death on 4 April 1984 and was found floating in Adelaide’s River Torrens days later. Bromley’s case is significant as… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim NSW Supreme Court Justice Graham Barr sentenced Newcastle woman Kathleen Folbigg to 40 years imprisonment, with non-parole set at 30 years, on 21 May 2003, in relation to the murder of three of her young children and the manslaughter of another. Folbigg became known as the nation’s “worst female serial… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The NSW antiprotest regime has partially fallen over in the face of a NSW Supreme Court challenge that was raised in October 2022, after the Perrottet government, with the unquestioning support of the Labor opposition, passed laws that effectively wiped out unapproved disruptive protests. The legal challenge was brought by two… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On the last parliamentary sitting day in NSW for 2023, the Minns government successfully passed legislation that served to tighten a hate speech offence, as a safeguard mechanism within it was deemed to have rendered it ineffective and having resulted in a lack of convictions. The offence was tightened during… Read more »