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Lawyer X

June 2023

  • Nicola Gobbo AKA Lawyer X.

    Lawyer X scandal: special investigator’s office closes with chances of prosecution ‘effectively nil’

  • Richard Ackland

    Should Victoria’s DPP have laid charges over Lawyer X scandal?

    Richard Ackland
  • Adam Bandt says the Greens are ‘absolutely not’ buying into a culture war after the minor party and Coalition united to Matt Canavan’s bill about the Calvary Hospital takeover to an inquiry.

    Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
    Greens and Coalition unite to refer bill to its own inquiry – as it happened

  • Nicola Gobbo

    Lawyer X special investigator wants own office abolished over DPP’s refusal to lay charges

January 2021

  • Order of service books at the funeral for Joe Acquaro in Melbourne, 23 March 2016

    Melbourne gangland lawyer Joe Acquaro gave police information on former client

    Victoria police says it never registered the murdered lawyer as an informant after a court reveals his role

December 2020

  • Nicola Gobbo

    Tony Mokbel conviction quashed as fallout from Lawyer X scandal rumbles on

    Drug baron remains in jail while he appeals other guilty verdicts citing involvement of lawyer-turned-police informant Nicola Gobbo

November 2020

  • Nicola Gobbo

    Nicola Gobbo: special investigator will examine whether 'Lawyer X' or Victoria police committed crimes

    Royal commission finds more than 1,000 people had convictions or findings of guilt that might have been affected by use of Gobbo as a source

September 2020

  • File photo of Nicola Gobbo

    Lawyer X: how Victoria police got it 'profoundly wrong' with informant Nicola Gobbo

  • A supplied screengrab taken from and ABC News tv interview featuring Melbourne lawyer Nicola Gobbo, who has been revealed as Lawyer X. A police informant during during Melbourne’s gangland wars. Ms Gobbo was first recruited in 1995 and worked with police until 2009, with drug lord Tony Mokbel and gangland figure Carl Williams among her client. (AAP Image/Supplied by ABC NEWS) NO ARCHIVING

    Lawyer X: Victoria police admit use of Nicola Gobbo as informer was 'profoundly wrong'

February 2020

  • Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants sign

    Nicola Gobbo grilled under oath about how she became Lawyer X

    Barrister-turned-informer gives evidence to royal commission by videolink from an undisclosed location due to safety concerns

December 2019

  • Lawyer-turned-police informer Nicola Gobbo,

    Lawyer X Nicola Gobbo already in 'serious difficulty' when recruited as informer, inquiry told

  • Victoria police’s chief commissioner, Graham Ashton

    Lawyer X: Victoria's top policeman claims he only learned extent of informing in 2011

July 2019

  • Gangland identity Faruk Orman released from jail in Australia<br>epaselect epa07741215 Faruk Orman (C) leaves the court of appeal in Melbourne, Australia, 26 July 2019. Melbourne gangland identity Faruk Orman will be immediately released from jail because of a ‘substantial miscarriage of justice’ caused by his double-agent lawyer Nicola Gobbo. EPA/DAVID CROSLING NO ARCHIVING AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

    Former Lawyer X client Faruk Orman to sue Victoria for compensation over jail time

    Orman to take action after murder conviction quashed and he walked free from prison
  • Faruk Orman leaves court

    Lawyer X case: Australian criminals line up to appeal convictions

    Forty cases may have been tainted by involvement of police informer Nicola Gobbo
  • Faruk Orman (second right) with legal team Ruth Parker (left), Paul Smallwood (second left) and Carly Marcs Lloyd (right) leave the court of appeal in Melbourne, Friday, July 26, 2019. Melbourne gangland identity Faruk Orman will be immediately released from jail because of a ?substantial miscarriage of justice? caused by his double-agent lawyer Nicola Gobbo. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

    Faruk Orman released after gangland murder conviction quashed over Lawyer X scandal

    Court of appeal orders former getaway driver be immediately released due to miscarriage of justice caused by his lawyer Nicola Gobbo

June 2019

  • A supplied screengrab taken from and ABC News tv interview featuring Melbourne lawyer Nicola Gobbo, who has been revealed as Lawyer X. A police informant during during Melbourne’s gangland wars. Ms Gobbo was first recruited in 1995 and worked with police until 2009, with drug lord Tony Mokbel and gangland figure Carl Williams among her client. (AAP Image/Supplied by ABC NEWS) NO ARCHIVING

    Lawyer X: getaway driver convicted of gangland murder granted right to appeal

    Faruk Orman’s case has been referred to appeals court over potential miscarriage of justice involving Nicola Gobbo

May 2019

  • Nicola Gobbo

    ‘Impossible’ deadline: Lawyer X inquiry gets further $20m and more time to report

    Commission given until July 2020 to deliver findings, after inquiry period for Nicola Gobbo-related cases goes from five years to 18

April 2019

  • Mick Gatto

    Mick Gatto sues ABC for defamation over Lawyer X report

    Gatto’s lawyer says article a ‘smear piece’ and denies client involved in Melbourne gangland deaths or threats
  • A supplied screengrab taken from and ABC News tv interview featuring Melbourne lawyer Nicola Gobbo, who has been revealed as Lawyer X. A police informant during during Melbourne’s gangland wars. Ms Gobbo was first recruited in 1995 and worked with police until 2009, with drug lord Tony Mokbel and gangland figure Carl Williams among her client. (AAP Image/Supplied by ABC NEWS) NO ARCHIVING

    Lawyer X: former handler denies sexual relationship with Nicola Gobbo

    Former assistant commissioner Jeff Pope says claims of ‘on-and-off’ sexual relationship ‘completely false’
  • Nicola Gobbo

    Lawyer X: policeman had intimate relationship with Nicola Gobbo, commission hears

    Detective senior sergeant Tim Argall told the royal commission Gobb also seemed ‘excited’ by the idea of covert operations
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