By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The High Court of Australia found on 6 November 2024 that the imposition of curfews and electronic monitoring that the Australian executive government had legislated as warranted in regard to some of a cohort of former immigration detainees released since November 2023 is illegal, as applying these punitive measures… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Yvette Blanch was in the passenger seat of a vehicle in the NSW town of Muswellbrook, when her partner was pulled over by NSW police on 14 October 2015, and on searching the car, officers found two firearms belonging to her partner. Following the vehicle being impounded, a metal… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Between 1 January 2014 and 25 December 2019, Michael Shortland spent over 2,000 hours gambling at the Dee Why RSL, which saw him lose over $643,000, while the habitual gambler had also lost over $1 million at Sydney’s Star Casino over the period from 1 January 2000 through to… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police officers attended the residence of Jason Fear on 3 August 2021 to conduct a routine inspection under the Child Protection (Offenders Registration) Act 2000 (NSW), which establishes the NSW Child Protection Register that lists former inmates who’ve offended against children in a sexual or other… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In a 1999 Crown appeal hearing against the leniency of sentences imposed upon Nelson Tak Fat Wong and Jackie Kai Chu Leung in relation to import/possess a prohibited item, namely heroin, under since repealed section 233B of the Customs Act 1901 (Cth), the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions requested… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Having passed through both houses of NSW state parliament on 24 September 2024, the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 is the NSW state government response to the “preventable” murder of Molly Ticehurst at the hands of her ex-partner in April of this year…. Read more »
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 »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim There are circumstances whereby a defendant pleads guilty to one or more criminal offence, known as the principal offence or offences, but there is an additional offence or offences for which he or she does not formally enter a plea or pleas of guilty, but admits to the offences… Read more »
During a 2006 speech he gave at the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, then NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery addressed the inception and benefits of a relatively new sentencing regime that had recently been established – that being guideline judgements. As he recalled, NSW was heading for a March 1999… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police sergeant Matthew Kelly was driving a marked police car near Warnervale on the NSW Central Coast at around 2.20 pm on 16 April 2020, when he spotted a motorcycle ridden by Jack Roberts travelling along Sparks Road towards the entrance to the Pacific Motorway. Kelly… Read more »
