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 »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police officers found the body of Molly Ticehurst in the town of Forbes on 22 April this year, before taking her former partner Daniel Billings into custody and charging him with the offence of murder, which he allegedly committed whilst out on bail in relation to… Read more »
The last two decades has seen numerous pieces of anti-money laundering and proceeds of crime legislation enacted by the federal parliament, as well as state and territory legislatures across the nation. These laws are ostensibly aimed at preventing the financial proceeds of criminal activity being ‘laundered’, meaning used to fund investments in assets such as… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Far-right extremist Wade John Homewood was arrested by New South Wales police officers in November 2021, over numerous social media posts to his two accounts, which advocated extreme violence and included suggestions to execute prominent political figures, as well as the murder of all nonwhite peoples. The thousands of… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales Police News reported last Thursday that a 16-year-old boy had been charged with a terrorism offence, “following an investigation by the Joint Counter Terrorism Team Sydney into an alleged stabbing at a Sydney church”. This relates the stabbing of an priest in the western Sydney suburb… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Natalia Mikhaylova faced a Local Court defended hearing over two counts of common assault, which is an offence under section 61 of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) carrying a maximum penalty of 2 years in prison. The charges were dismissed by the NSW Local Court in November 2023, as… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Both coming into effect on 1 July 2015, the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) (the Uniform Law) and the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules 2015 (the Conduct Rules), establish the rules that regulate the conduct of lawyers in New South Wales, over and above the responsibilities… Read more »
