NSW Courts

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim

New South Wales District Court Judge Sophia Beckett was presiding over an appeal against the severity of the sentence imposed on Ellias Khouri by

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim

New South Wales man Daryl Young’s Carrai property on the state’s mid-north coast was raided by police on 22 February 2024, after aerial surveillance identified it as the site of a potential cannabis plantation, and what was uncovered was a cultivation and supply operation being run out of a partially constructed shed-like dwelling, where...

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim

New South Wales parliament passed a law on 7 May 2026 that abolished the ability of the courts to consider the prior good character of those convicted of sexual offences as a mitigating factor – in other w...

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim

In response to the findings of the June 2024 NSW Crime Commission Project Hakka report, the NSW government has introduced legislation aimed at preventing domestic violence (DV) perpetrators ...

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim

Kevin Vazquez checked into the Drummoyne Furnished Apartments on 20 June 2023, and on 21 July, he contacted the manager informing a consignment addressed to an “Alejandro Evans” arriving from the US was his. After arrival, of what was being referred as the “dummy run”, Vazquez took various photos of a white substance contained in that pa...