By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim “Several remarkable things happened in the Dubbo Local Court that day”, said NSW Supreme Court Justice Peter Hamill at the outset of his 1 June final findings in regard to the 11 February 2022 NSW Local Court case R versus Faiva Peckham. His Honour last week described the three-minute-long case presided… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Dedicated refugee rights advocate Shane Bazzi posted a tweet late night on 25 February last year, which stated, “Peter Dutton is a rape apologist”. The tweet also featured a link to a June 2019 Guardian article titled, Peter Dutton Says Women Using Rape and Abortion Claims as Ploy to Get… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 3.30 pm on 17 January 2020, Brendan Gilbert Wood and George Layton entered Kelly’s Asian Flower brothel posing as customers. Whilst alone in the waiting area, the pair donned face coverings, Layton armed himself with an axe and a machete, whilst Wood held a machete. In threatening… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A barrister since 1995, Michael Rollinson received an email from the NSW Bar Association on 2 July 2021 directing him to cease practising as he’d failed to pay the full fees to annually renew his practising certificate. He was told that if he didn’t stop, he’d be in breach… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Recently appointed NSW Chief Justice Andrew Bell has issued a revised set of COVID protocols pertaining specifically to the NSW Supreme Court, and another set that distinctly deals with the running of criminal jury trials within the state’s highest court. These updated protocols took effect on 4 April. The onset of COVID-19 in… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 9 April 2009, Simon Monteiro was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for the aggravated sexual assault of his then girlfriend in her Bellevue Hill apartment on 2 January 2008. The rape was aggravated because the offender inflicted actual bodily harm before the non-consensual sex assault. The State Parole Authority granted… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Charles Smith had just finished dinner with his mother when he attended the pokies room at the Quakers Hill Inn, with the allotted $50 he’d allowed himself to gamble on the machines. Thomas Maloney, an associate of his, who shared friends in common, was also trying his luck at… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A 17 to 18th of December 2014 meeting of some Australian Muslim men in their early 20s was occurring in in the garage of the Regent’s Park family home of Sulayman Khalid, which involved them planning a series of serious terrorist attacks on Sydney’s AFP building and Lithgow Prison. Later… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Mounir Seifeddine worked as a kofta chef in a café owned by Tim Abraham in mid-2017. The part-time employee was alone at the establishment on 9 August that year, when a number of NSW police officers turned up to execute a search warrant. On examining the storage area on… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Prior to being taken into police custody, Mr A told his wife he’d stored six gold bars belonging to Mr Y at her mother’s house. On 8 August 2012, on the request of Y, Mrs A removed two bars and a Mr C drove the pair to the vicinity… Read more »
