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 Former Duke of York, Prince Andrew, who is now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested by police on 19 February 2026 over suspicion of misconduct in public office in relation to information that emerged from the US Department of Justice’s release on 30 January 2026 of 3 million files… 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 »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The 2025/26 summer holidays were completely different to any other in recent memory, as they commenced with the horror of the 14 December Bondi Beach massacre, and in the wake of this act of terrorism, both the federal and NSW parliaments reconvened to pass a swag of laws that… Read more »
As of Wednesday, 21 January 2026, senior New South Wales police officers had issued public safety orders (PSO) to at least 12 neo-Nazis in the Greater Sydney area, ordering them to keep a wide berth from the city’s CBD and its surrounds on 26 January 2026, as their presence at a planned antiimmigration rally on… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The New South Wales police commissioner imposed a firearms prohibition order (FPO) upon Grafton man Samuel Lynch on 2 July 2020. An FPO restricts its subject from owning firearms or ammunition. But on being arrested on 26 July 2021, Lynch was found to have amassed multiple guns, guns parts… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Lata Samate and Alex Sasulu left the Campsie Hotel at around 4.30 am on 3 September 2023 on foot, after Sasulu had been barred entry into the establishment for being too intoxicated. The pair then came across a nearby service station at 4.45 am, which happened to have the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Nine hundred cartons of wine, which contained 123 kilograms of pure cocaine dissolved in an aqueous ethanol solution within 42 dozen of the bottles, arrived in Australia on a ship sailing from South America on 14 September 2012. The Australian federal police seized the consignment and extracted the cocaine… Read more »
