By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim There are circumstances whereby a defendant pleads guilty to one or more criminal offence, known as the principal offence or offences, but there is an additional offence or offences for which he or she does not formally enter a plea or pleas of guilty, but admits to the offences… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In 2004, then NSW attorney general Bob Debus called on the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal (NSWCCA) to provide a guideline judgment with reference to the offence of driving with a high range of prescribed concentration of alcohol (PCA) in their system, which is commonly referred to as high… Read more »
During a 2006 speech he gave at the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, then NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery addressed the inception and benefits of a relatively new sentencing regime that had recently been established – that being guideline judgements. As he recalled, NSW was heading for a March 1999… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A New South Wales police inspector from a specialist command left after an 8-hour-long heavy drinking session with colleagues at a couple of Sydney CBD bars, but instead of spending the night at the hotel he’d checked into, the inspector collected his bags from his room, got in his… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim After having worked at financial planning and investment company Sentinel Wealth for three years, Gavin Fineff became a financial planner in 2013, and by 2019, he was earning a substantial income plus bonuses and had 120 clients. And he’d even acquired a minority financial stake in the business. However,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Callum McLaughlin was arrested by NSW police on 2 May 2020 and taken to Surry Hills police station. And that day’s custody manager, Sergeant Stanton, placed the intoxicated man in a holding cell, due to his state. McLaughlin was then charged at 1 pm with one count of common… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police sergeant Matthew Kelly was driving a marked police car near Warnervale on the NSW Central Coast at around 2.20 pm on 16 April 2020, when he spotted a motorcycle ridden by Jack Roberts travelling along Sparks Road towards the entrance to the Pacific Motorway. Kelly… Read more »
by Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Former Rugby League football star Jarryd Hayne stood trial three times in the District Court of New South Wales accused of sexual assault offences alleged to have been committed in 2018. After the first jury was ‘hung’, meaning it could not reach a verdict, he was twice found guilty,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim When the 10-year-old boy entered Year 5 at a New South Wales Catholic primary school in 1977, there would have been some level of familiarity between him and his teacher, Gaye Grant, as she knew his family outside of teaching at the educational institution she’d been working at since… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Jason Adams was staying at Nikita Hanson’s Raymond Terrace house on 28 February 2020, as a condition of bail, when the situation deteriorated to the point that Lily Ridgeway and two male friends arrived to assist her with evicting the man on conditional release. After being thrown out, Adams… Read more »
