By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The shop assistant greeted Shanta Luchetti as he entered a Liquorland store in a shopping centre on 11 November 2023. The assistant was standing beside the cash register, and Luchetti then walked to a section of the store, where he picked up a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The New South Wales government passed its second version of its ‘places of worship’ move on power for the NSW police toolkit in late November 2025, after the initial version was struck down by the Supreme Court in October 2025 on the basis it unjustifiably infringed the right of… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A former Australian soldier met with a sex worker on 9 August 2023, for the third time in roughly a month. But unlike the first two occasions on which the pair met, when the man paid the woman for her services, he handed her a receipt which fraudulently suggested… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Western Australian police officers executed a search warrant on 21 August 2019, on the number 8 storage unit at Billabong Self Storage facility located on Cutler Road in the Perth suburb of Jandakot. The search was carried out in front of Darcey Doyle, who was one of two people… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The New South Wales parliament passed legislation on 21 November 2025 which lowers the standard of proof that applies to determinations of correctional centre offences made by prison governors relating to offences, so that the criminal standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” is now the civil standard of being… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim David Beeby was engaged in a series of exchanges with a male known as “Jeremy” over the Grindr hookup app at his Terrigal home on the NSW Central Coast at around 11.30 pm on 24 January 2024, when Jeremy made it known to David, who went by the username… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The principle of doli incapax is a common law presumption in NSW that considers children under 14 years of age lack the capacity to be criminally responsible for their acts. A review of the operation of doli incapax in NSW was launched by state attorney general Michael Daley in… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Justice Richard Cavanagh handed down the 12 September 2025 judgement in a civil suit to award plaintiff Luke Brett Moore $456,160 and also ordered that the defendant, the state of New South Wales, pay his legal costs in the case that involved New South Wales police having falsely imprisoning… Read more »
NSW Greens MP for Newtown Jenny Leong introduced her Human Rights Bill 2025 on Thursday, 23 October, and the understanding is that this legislation is appearing before NSW parliament at a time when the constituency is experiencing “the burden of divisions” both “local and global”, and the establishment of rights for all citizens and residents,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Palestine Action Group organiser Josh Lees filed a claim in the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 17 March 2025, seeking a declaration that a law empowering police to issue move on directions near a place of worship in NSW infringed upon the implied right to political communication… Read more »
