Jock Palfreeman: Freedom So Close, Yet So Far
Sydney man Jock Palfreeman remains locked in an immigration detention centre in Bulgaria, awaiting a decision on whether he will be sent back to prison, or home to Australia as a free man. In the latest development in the bid...
Catholic Church Forced to Pay Victim of Child Sexual Abuse
A man who was sexually assaulted as a child by notorious paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale will receive up to $3 million in a landmark legal settlement with the Catholic Church. The financial settlement is the in which the church has...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 16 to 22 September 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Dozens Charged with Participating in a Criminal Group Up to 40 people have been charged over an alleged day-care fraud ring, which has been described...
David Eastman to Sue Over Wrongful Murder Conviction
An ACT Supreme Court jury found David Eastman not guilty last November of the assassination-style killing of AFP assistant commissioner Colin Winchester. The police officer was gunned down as he was getting out of his car in the Canberra suburb...
Mentally Ill Man Dies After Being Repeatedly Tasered by NSW Police
30-year old Jack Kokua walked out of Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) hospital in Sydney shortly before 1pm on 18 February 2018. Forty minutes later, he was tasered three times in less than two minutes during an altercation with police, before...
“Do Not Forget Assange”: Calls to Bring the WikiLeaks Founder Home
“Do not forget Julian Assange. Or you will lose him,” tweeted John Pilger on 5 August. The veteran Australian journalist stated that he’d just visited the Wikileaks founder in London’s Belmarsh prison, and “his health is deteriorating”. “Treated worse than...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 19 to 25 August 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: General Electric Accused of $US38 Billion Fraud The man who warned of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme years before it came to light has accused General...
“People of Faith Aren’t Being Discriminated Against”: An Interview With Father Rod Bower
In December 2017, literally days after marriage equality was passed, then treasurer Scott Morrison announced that he’d be pushing for laws in 2018 that prevented discrimination against Christians and those of other religious faiths. “Where I think people are being...
Transformation Through Telling: An Interview Ngikalikarra Media’s Alexander Hayes
The Church of England Boys’ Society was an outreach program of the Anglican Church that involved adults running weekly meetings and weekend activities for young members of the faith. The organisation was at its height during the 1970s and 80s....
The Rules for Changing a Plea from Guilty to Not Guilty
On 30 June 2004, Raymond Wong pleaded guilty before a magistrate in the Sydney Local Court to one count of committing an act of indecency, contrary to repealed section 61N of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW). At the time, Wong...