By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Kevin Vazquez checked into the Drummoyne Furnished Apartments on 20 June 2023, and on 21 July, he contacted the manager informing a consignment addressed to an “Alejandro Evans” arriving from the US was his. After arrival, of what was being referred as the “dummy run”, Vazquez took various photos… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On being approached by several New South Wales police officers in Potts Point on 3 October 2023, Daniel Karlsson admitted he did not have a ticket to be travelling on public transport. On hearing this admission, police constable Moriarty asked Karlsson to identify himself, and as the civilian did,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Timothy John Engstrom was running a business called Bungendore Landscape Supplies, together with business partner Adam Hunter in June 2019, when the latter decided to import a Caterpillar excavator from overseas, whist it had 384 packets of cocaine secreted in the arm of the vehicle. The total pure weight… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales man Hayden Brown appeared before Blacktown Local Court in July 2025, after he’d been arrested and charged with having a concealed knife in public, following NSW police officers having spotted a group of young people wearing dark clothing at about 2.20 am on a Friday morning,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Mark Maximos was the director of CCS 136 Castlereagh Pty Ltd (CCS), a supermarket and grocery store, over the period 8 May 2012 to 5 November 2020. In 2016, CCS opened a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) Business Transaction Account, with Maximos as the sole signatory to it. But… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 9 December 2025, the New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling SC called for the removal of Judge Penelope Wass from presiding over a historic sex offending trial then before the NSW District Court, based “on ground of apprehended bias”, after the judge had made a… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Toby Weekes, Jackson Chaker and a number of other individuals had been engaged in an unlawful commercial cannabis enterprise in regional communities in central west New South Wales over 2021 through to 2022. And after the operation was closed down, Weekes was charged with four counts of supplying a… Read more »
In providing the address to open the 2026 law term, NSW Chief Justice Andrew Bell reflected on how “the state of the profession, the courts, the rule of law and areas of common interest and concern” had progressed over 2025, and in doing so, he recalled the concerns he’d had in respect of the rule… Read more »
by Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Organiser Josh Lees and the Palestine Action Group sought to have the order declaring the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Sydney commencing on 9 February 2026 a major event and hence, enliven extraordinary policing powers revoked by the NSW Supreme Court on the same day that… Read more »
by Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In a move that has long been demanded by victim advocacy groups and is based upon a recommendation contained in a New South Wales Sentencing Council report of July 2025, the state government has introduced legislation that would prohibit the use of ‘good character’ as a factor which has… Read more »