By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim When Luke Brett Moore opened his Complete Freedom savings account at the Goulburn branch of St George bank, he was unaware just how much freedom the financial institution would afford him. But Mr Moore soon found that he was at liberty to make quite a range of large withdrawals…. Read more »
Posts Categorized: NSW Courts
Sex Offender Appeals Admission of Tendency Evidence
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Pierre Mol was a Sydney-based artist, who’d made quite a name for himself. Mol painted the largest mural in the southern hemisphere on the request of the Sultan of Brunei. He also painted the well-known mural in the Rocks of a 1901 photograph of Brown Bear Lane. Today, Mr Mol… Read more »
Judges Must Allow Defendants to Present Their Cases
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 3.50 pm on 1 March 2015, Mr Paul Hedderman was walking down a flight of stairs at Sydney’s Town Hall station, when he noticed a man walking up in the opposite direction with a bright object shaped like a pen in his hand. The man was Andrew… Read more »
One-Punch Offender Loses Appeal
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim After hearing the news that his recently deceased father’s ashes had been misplaced, James Longworth met with friends at a bar in the Sydney CBD on 6 September 2013. The group watched a football match and drank a large amount of beer. They moved onto to another bar, where… Read more »
NSW Court Reduces Murder Sentence on Appeal
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Seth Roberts picked up Gordon Reginald Cramp at around 3 am on 21 February 2013. The pair drove to Roberts’ Werrington home, where Mr Cramp injected some ice and smoked cannabis. He’d just had an argument his partner, Rachel Sydenham, who told him to get out of the house…. Read more »
Abuse of Trust: A Significant Aggravating Factor in Indecent Assaults
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Between 23 April and 12 June 2014, Central coast physiotherapist Youngjin Jung indecently assaulted seven patients at his Ocean Beach Rd practice in Umina. Over that time, Mr Jung carried out twelve inappropriate acts upon clients with “no professional justification” for doing so. On several occasions, Mr Jung exposed… Read more »
Consenting to an Unlawful Search Will Make it Legal
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim NSW police don’t have the power to randomly search people’s vehicles. If an officer does search a vehicle, they must have a suspicion on reasonable grounds for doing so. The police powers to stop and search people and their vehicles without a warrant are contained in the Law Enforcement… Read more »
Can Charges be Dismissed if Police Get the Details Wrong?
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A little after 5.35 pm on 30 March 2015, two NSW police officers came across a truck that had been reported stolen. The vehicle was found parked out the front of the Canterbury Leagues Club on the northern side of Bridge Road. Mr Gholam Chaheh was sitting in the… Read more »
Repeated Unprotected Sex Does Not Prove Deliberate HIV Transmission
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On New Year’s Eve 2006, Godfrey Zaburoni met a woman on the Gold Coast and the pair began a sexual relationship a few weeks later that lasted 21 months. Before the relationship began, the woman asked Zaburoni whether he’d been tested for HIV, to which Zaburoni replied that he… Read more »
Not Guilty of Animal Cruelty Due to Mental Illness
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim NSW police arrested Brendan Francis McMahon in August 2005 and charged him with animal cruelty offences arising from the mutilation of seventeen rabbits and a guinea pig. The carcases of the animals were found strewn around Sydney CBD laneways close to wear Mr McMahon ran a financial planning business… Read more »