By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A 2013 NSW parliamentary report into the laws then applying to unauthorised driving found that cases were clogging up the NSW Local Court, penalties were disproportionately steep with no discretion to curb their severity, and their impact was causing havoc within the community. In response, the Berejiklian government passed… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Moustaffa Zreika was driving a 6.5 tonne Hino Tipper truck down Burnett Street in Sydney’s Merrylands on 22 July 2017, when the vehicle crossed the double lines down the centre of the road, whilst attempting a slight left-hand bend. The truck sideswiped an oncoming car and then continued down… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The Berejiklian government launched the NSW Road Safety Plan 2021 in early 2018. It aims to reduce the road fatality rate in this state to 30 percent below the levels seen in 2008 through to 2010. A number of bills have been passed since the launch of the program… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In February 2018, NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian and then state roads minister Melinda Pavey launched the NSW Road Safety Plan 2021. It consists of a series of road safety goals with the aim of reducing driving risks and, in turn, road trauma. The state priority target is to reduce… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 21 June 2014, Sydney motor mechanic Jason Mansweto was driving his newly restored 1969 GT Ford Falcon XW sedan along Canoona Avenue in Windsor Downs, when he found that the brakes didn’t work as he tried to slow down to take a sharp left turn. Before the drive,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Just after 3am on 21 March 2015, Waqar Ul-Hassan was driving Muhammad Ijaz, Hashim Manzoor and Mohammed Aslam back to his place on Merrylands Road, after they’d all spent a night at a friend’s house in Styles Place, Merrylands. The Pakistani national, who was residing in Australia on a… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In August 2013, a courier driver sought legal advice from Sydney lawyer Ms Jinhi Kim regarding ten traffic infringement penalty notices he’d received. The pair met, and Ms Kim told her client that she’d write to the State Debt Recovery Office stating he was not the driver. The lawyer… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 9.30 one morning, NSW police officers were at a flat on Murray Street in Port Macquarie investigating an incident, when the phone rang. An officer answered and told the caller the occupant wasn’t home. The caller rang again two minutes later. This time, the officer recognised the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On the evening of 6 September 2014, Zhen Fang stabbed his friend Ting Huang to death, in a frenzied attack whereby he inflicted 20 wounds to the victim’s head, neck, trunk and upper extremities. The two work colleagues had been drinking beer and smoking a substantial amount of ice… Read more »
The offence of drug driving, unlike drink driving, does not require you to have a certain level of drugs in your system at the time of driving – any amount is enough. This means that even drugs taken days ago, which no longer have any effect on your driving ability, could still see you being… Read more »