NSW Courts Articles

Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Empowering Police to Move-On Protesters at Places of Worship

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 »

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Court Ruling Rejecting the Right of Pro-Palestine Organisers to March on the Opera House

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The NSW Police Force announced on 3 October 2025 that it would be challenging the notification of a public protest lodged by Palestine Action Group, which sought to hold a public rally calling for an end to the Gaza genocide two years after it commenced, as the agency cited… Read more »

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Sentence Reduced as Judge Failed to Inform the Defence He Rejected a Psychological Assessment

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police officers executed a search warrant upon a premises and vehicle in the southern Sydney suburb of Carlton that belonged to Alexandre Da Silva on 29 September 2022. Da Silva was under police observation, when he drove to a western Sydney suburb to pick up a… Read more »

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NSW Parliament Broadens the Reach of Child Sexual Offences

The New South Wales parliament has passed legislation which expands the scope of child sexual offences, child abuse material offences and female genital mutilation offences, as well as enables the conviction of a person for sexual offences and interfering with a corpse where it is uncertain as to whether the victim was alive or deceased… Read more »

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Sentence Reduced as Judge Failed to Find that Immediate Admissions Count as Assistance to Police

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Joshua Dennis approached the reception counter at the Adina Apartments in Wollongong at 3.05 am on 30 August 2022, and he commenced conversing with night manager Amos Baker. After a few minutes of speaking, however, 40-year-old Dennis then walked around to the other side of the counter and punched… Read more »

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Attempted Murder Sentence Reduced as Judge Misapplied Principle of Totality

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A member of the Sydney Hamzy crime family asked a 23-year-old male individual that he’d befriended in early 2021, to partner up with a second person to kill members of the Alameddine criminal network. Four people were on the hitlist. The payment was $2 million for one killed, and… Read more »

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Appeal Against Commercial Drug Importation Succeeds as Judge Misdirected the Jury

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Following an investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intercepted a commercial dough mixer on 27 September 2021, which had been bought by local business Nella Cutlery, from another in the Canadian city of Toronto to be shipped to the Australian city of Brisbane,… Read more »

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Appeal Against Sentence for Fraud Succeeds, as Judge Failed to Consider Drug Dependency

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Over March to July 2020, NSW Riverina region man Brodie O’Hanlon made 70 claims for payments under various relief schemes run by Services Australia, such as the Australian Government Disaster Relief Payment, the Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment and the Disaster Recovery Allowance. These claims, however, that resulted in his… Read more »

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Supreme Court Judgment Permitting the Sydney Harbour Bridge March for Humanity to Proceed

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Palestine Action Group (PAG) organiser Josh Lees lodged a notice of intention to hold a public assembly, under section 23 of the Summary Offences Act 1988 (NSW) (the Act), with the NSW Police Force on 26 July 2025. PAG was planning a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on… Read more »

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Courts Must Consider Relevant Financial Burden When Sentencing for Fraud Offences

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Romanian man Alexandru Badaric came to Sydney in April 2023 and was joined by his partner and co-offender Izabela Vintila in June. The pair received two shimming devices posted from London in July 2023. Shimming devices are strips of metal placed on an ATM, which record the data on… Read more »

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