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\"They have done that presumably so they can say publicly, 'what we have done is appropriate, we have brought in the interests of law enforcement and therefore you shouldn't be inquiring any further',\" he said. \"Well the church may say, 'we just wanted the police officer as a private individual or citizen but with the experience gained as a police officer'... but that really is no answer. \"We have audited all the complaints that have come into the professional standards office pursuant to the Towards Healing protocol, to ensure that all matters involving complaints of sexual abuse of children and minors have been reported to the sex crimes squad of the NSW Police pursuant to our normal practice.\"

SYDNEY, Aug 5 AAP - Former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery says the government is rushing the introduction of tough new bail laws for serious offenders. \"We've adopted all the recommendations by the former attorney-general [John Hatzistergos] and it's going to make it a lot harder for serious offenders to get bail from here on in,\" he told Macquarie Radio on Tuesday. \"If they can't show cause and if the onus is going to shift to them to show cause why they should get bail, they'll stay behind bars.\"

SYDNEY, Jan 22 AAP - Mandatory sentences for \"one-punch\" assaults are a \"recipe for injustice\" and will result in a backlash, the former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions says. He has criticised the bid to introduce new mandatory minimums for so-called \"one-punch assaults\", where a person unlawfully assaults another who then dies as a direct or indirect result of the assault. \"The whole idea of mandatory minimum sentences is a recipe for injustice,\" Mr [Nicholas Cowdery] told ABC radio on Wednesday.

\"We've digested it. We have found it to be poisonous and we've regurgitated it,\" he said. \"The electors need to know that what they're proposing and what they are doing doesn't produce the results that they hope it will,\" he said. He has also labelled the Government's public survey on sentencing reform \"bizarre.\"

Mr Cowdery was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1987 and served as an Associate Judge of the District Court between 1988 and 1990 before being given the DPP's role. \"This is my last day. I think it's time to bury a few hatchets,\" Mr Cowdery initially told 702 ABC Sydney this morning. Retiring NSW DPP Nicholas Cowdery. Nicholas Cowdery says the manner of his departure, after more than 16 years as NSW DPP, was \"rude\". Source: AAP

\"We have to understand that not all systems are like ours, and we have to understand that when our kids and grandkids go travelling in foreign countries that are not familiar, there are all sorts of dangers that perhaps unwittingly can be contributed to by them in their own conduct, and it can lead to the appalling consequences that Jock [PALFREEMAN] and the Palfreeman family have now experienced.\" Nicholas Cowdery on Sunday told a packed bookshop that the case of Jock Palfreeman, found guilty in December 2009 of the murder of Bulgarian Andrei Monov, raised \"very serious concerns\" about that country's criminal justice system.

\"They've made sure it's not an executive-driven process.\" \"This type of legislation is anathema, we don't like it; I don't like it as a lawyer, lots of people don't like it.\" \"We're coming back into the Parliament next year with new legislation to deal with this issue and we're coming at them with even more measures,\" Mr [Mike Rann] said.

\"By making it illegal, what we have done is to increase the risk of something nasty happening to people who're involved with it, but that just increases the price that people charge for it and the profits that unaccountable criminals can make from the trade.\" \"So by legalising, regulating and controlling the distribution under government supervision, the profit incentive all but disappears for organised crime.\" \"Whether it's cannabis, whether it's heroin, whether it's amphetamines, the thing about controlling and regulating it is to bring some quality control into the equation,\" he said.

SYDNEY, March 18 AAP - NSW Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell has paid tribute to Nicholas Cowdery, saying the outgoing director of public prosecutions (DPP) has ruffled the feathers of many politicians. Mr Cowdery, the nation's longest-serving DPP, stepped down on Friday after 16 years in the job in NSW.

Retiring top New South Wales prosecutor Nicholas Cowdery has revealed the most difficult moment of his long career was when one of his staff was found with child pornography on their computer. Mr Cowdery has told tonight's Australian Story program the incident involving a senior prosecutor was a testing time because of criticism of how he dealt with it. \"I still believe we took the right course with Patrick Power, but I do admit there is room for another view,\" Mr Cowdery said.