Nicholas Cowdery

Biographic Data

ID7450161
NAMENicholas Cowdery
GIVEN NAMESNicholas
FAMILY NAMECowdery
SIGNATURECOWDERY N
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX0

  • IWitnessed

    Helen Paterson, Helen M Paterson et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Criminal Justice2018

    Eyewitness testimony can provide critical leads in all types of investigations and can be extremely persuasive in court. However, inconsistencies or inaccuracies in eyewitness accounts can undermine the perceived value of this evidence, leading to miscarriages of justice. Research shows that memory fades quickly after an event. Therefore, it is important for eyewitness accounts to be collected immediately after a critical incident. Unfortunately,…

  • Deemed Supply in Australian Drug Trafficking Laws

    Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes, Caitlin Hughes et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Criminal Justice2015

    In Australia, eight of the nine legal jurisdictions have enacted ‘deemed supply’ provisions for illicit drug trafficking offences that presume ‘intent to supply’ based on the quantity of a drug an alleged offender is found with and attach criminal liability for the offence of supply. Such laws have been enacted for more than 35 years. In this article we critically examine: the rationale for the widespread adoption of Australian deemed supply laws…

  • Australian threshold quantities for ‘drug trafficking’

    Open AccessCaitlin Hughes, A Ritter et al.BOOK2014

    Legal threshold quantities for drug trafficking, over which possession of an illicit drug is deemed ‘trafficking’ as opposed to ‘personal use’ are used in most Australian states and territories. Yet, in spite of known risks from adopting such thresholds, most notably of unjustified conviction of users as traffickers, the capacity of Australian legal thresholds to deliver proportional sanctioning has been subject to limited research. In this study…

  • Legislating thresholds for drug trafficking

    Open AccessCaitlin Elizabeth Hughes, Caitlin Hughes et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2014

  • Criminal Justice in New South Wales under the new State Government

    Nicholas CowderyARTICLECurrent Issues in Criminal Justice2012

    There was a state election in New South Wales (NSW) on 26 March 2011. It was widely predicted that there would be a change of government. It was widely hoped in criminal legal circles that this would not be another 'law and order auction' election in the mode of the previous four elections, so when the Coalition's then shadow Attorney General (and now Attorney General), Greg Smith SC MP, publicly announced in November 2010 that he would not take …

  • The Criminalisation of Drugs and the Search for Alternative Approaches

    Ben Mostyn, Helen Gibbon et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Criminal Justice2012

    In the wake of four decades of battling an ineffective, devastating and expensive ‘war on drugs’, the global movement for drug law reform is gaining considerable momentum. Even the United States (US) and the United Nations, the two most instrumental forces behind the ‘war on drugs’ policy, have modified their stance on the strict prohibitionist regime. Two US states have just voted to legalise marijuana. Many countries have adopted some form of d…

  • A Threat to the Rule of Law

    Nicholas CowderyARTICLECurrent Issues in Criminal Justice2009

    The Director of Public Prosecutions, New South Wales, Nicholas Cowdery, critically analyses Crimes (Criminal Organisation Control) Act 2009 which deals with the perceived threat from bicycle gangs. He feels that Act is not restricted to outlaw motorcycle gangs and that the scope of the Act is much broader

  • Dietrich

    Nicholas CowderyARTICLECurrent Issues in Criminal Justice1997

    (1997). Dietrich: Why Should the Prosecution Worry?. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 163-169