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A case stalled before Victoria’s Court of Appeal for the past three years has taken a dramatic turn, with lawyers for convicted killer Evangelos Goussis seeking to argue that prosecutors and police breached legal disclosure obligations when Goussis stood trial for Moran’s 2004 murder.

The Age article

A convicted drug trafficker who spent two weeks in jail on remand has had her case overturned after Victoria Police conceded an officer lied to obtain a search warrant to raid her home.

The Age article

The royal commission into the handling of police informants has been nothing short of damning in its criticism of VicPol’s handling of disgraced barrister Nicola Gobbo. It has also slammed the behaviour of the ex-lawyer turned supergrass as inexcusable and seriously damaging to public trust in the justice system.

The Age article

When Faruk Orman walked from the Supreme Court last year and gulped in his first breaths as a free man in 12 years, he found a lot had changed.

ABC video interview

The massive breach of the rights to confidentiality and legal professional privilege has potentially contaminated an unknown number of criminal cases and convictions.

The Age article

“There must have been 20 Purana taskforce detectives there. They were all doing high-fives, slapping each on the back. It was like they’d won Tattslotto,” Mr Cvetanovski says. “And all of them knew the way they achieved that result was by fraud.”

The Age article

A convicted drug trafficker and up to two dozen other gangland figures, including Tony Mokbel, could walk free after prosecutors conceded that Victoria Police corrupted a key jailhouse witness by paying him $10,000.

The Age article

The legal fraternity, like outlaw bikies and mafia goombahs, run a closed shop controlled by secret rules and ancient rituals not to be broken. Barrister turned police informer Nicola Gobbo broke those rules and has been condemned by her former colleagues (some desperate to reinvent themselves as squeaky clean).

The Age article

A man jailed as one of Tony Mokbel’s drug traffickers has been granted bail after 11 years in prison, because of concerns over the role lawyer-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo played in his conviction.

The Age article
The Australian article

Faruk Orman, who was jailed for the 2002 murder of underworld figure Victor Peirce, has walked free from a Melbourne court after his conviction was quashed in the wake of the Lawyer X scandal.

ABC News article
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Supreme Court of Victoria video of the ruling ©Supreme Court of Victoria

Some of Australia’s most dangerous criminals could have their convictions overturned after revelations their defence lawyer was secretly feeding information to police.

Yahoo News article

The name Gobbo opens doors in Melbourne. It doesn’t stand against a Baillieu or a Myer in this city where old money rules, but it carries a rare clout, never more so than in the legal world, where generations of the family have made their mark.

The Age article

The lawyer for a gangland getaway driver has slammed Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton on live radio for delays in disclosure of documents she said would help her client’s appeal.

The Age article

The lawyer at the centre of an informer scandal enveloping Victoria Police became a snitch two years before she was admitted to practice, raising questions about whether she was recruited after being charged with drug offences as a university student.

ABC News article

Some of the country’s most feared gangland criminals are eyeing freedom over revelations their court cases were jeopardised by the involvement of Informer 3838, also known as Lawyer X.

ABC News article

Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton could excuse himself from leading the police response to a royal commission into the use of a lawyer as a police informant during the height of Melbourne’s gangland wars.

ABC News article

A man serving a 20-year jail term for his part in the killing of underworld figure Victor Peirce could be the first convicted murderer to make a bid for freedom in the wake of the Informer 3838 scandal.

ABC News article

A gangland getaway driver is set to be the first killer to lodge an appeal over the Lawyer X scandal.

3AW website article

A gangland getaway driver serving a 20-year jail term for killing career criminal Victor Peirce will be the first murderer to challenge his conviction over the Informer 3838 scandal.

The Age article

In December 2018, the High Court of Australia released a judgment which revealed that a Defence Barrister had been recruited as a Police Informer between 2005 and 2009. Faruk Orman was one of her clients and was convicted of a murder he has always maintained he did not commit. See these links for our Ruth Parker’s comments on this case, as we continue to fight for Faruk’s freedom.

ABC News
The Age article

We represented Peter Geary, who succeeded both at Trial on an Appeal by ASIC, who alleged that he breached his corporate duties whilst a senior employee at the Australian Wheat Board. This was the single biggest ASIC prosecution in recent Australian legal history.

Supreme Court of Victoria Article
sbs.com.au Article

County Court Plea on historic sexual allegations, where Mr. Bracken received a community corrections order.

The Herald Sun Article

We represented Dennis Ryan in relation to his compensation claim, arising from the Royal Commission.

Sydney Morning Herald Article

Acquittal at Trial for the murder of his de facto partner. This was the first successful application of the family violence self defence provision in Victorian legal history.

The Herald Sun Article
News.com.au Article

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