Nicole Byrne

The conversation around artificial intelligence in law has been loud, fast-moving, and not always honest. As a practitioner across criminal, civil, and defamation law, I’ve watched the industry narrative shift from cautious curiosity to something approaching evangelism, and I think it’s worth applying the same scrutiny to that narrative that we’d apply to any claim

Last year, our civil solicitor, Anavi Arya, represented a victim of Jason Melbom, a Sydney inmate who escaped from Long Bay Correctional Complex. He carried out a violent crime spree through the city’s eastern suburbs, attacking and terrorising people in their own homes. Melbom was serving a 22-year sentence at the Malabar facility when he

NSW Police Wanding Powers: Fresh enforcement figures released this month show NSW Police have conducted 34 wanding operations across metropolitan and regional New South Wales, scanning 4,147 people, seizing 91 unlawful weapons and charging 67 people with a total of 71 weapons offences. The figures, covering the first year of operation of the state’s expanded

NSW Public Assembly Restriction Declaration: The NSW Court of Appeal has declared invalid a set of amendments associated with the Public Assembly Restriction Declaration (PARD) regime. This particular regime had expanded the NSW Police Commissioner’s power to restrict assemblies in designated areas across the state. On 16 April 2026, a three-judge bench of the NSW

We’re shining a light on a case that exposes what can happen when the very people entrusted to protect vulnerable individuals abuse that trust, and what the law can do when the system fails to act. Our client was a recovering addict in a NSW prison. Her abuser, Wayne Astill, was her senior correctional officer.