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Cover Art

The cover image is Arresting a witch from the book A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson’s administration by T. W. Higginson. The image is in the public domain and is on file with Wikipedia. The trimming, manipulation, and adding of text is by Ernest Bywater. All rights to the cover image are reserved by the copyright owners.

3 March 2020 version
Published by Ernest Bywater

The titles in use are a Chapter, a Sub-chapter, and a section.

Table of Contents

Chapter 01
Summary
Magistrate’s Reasoning for the Sentence
Costs to Date

Chapter 02
The Criminal Laws
NSW Crimes Act June 2015
NSW Crimes Act of 1900 October 2015
Concerns with the New NSW Law
Legal Defences in October 2015
Criminal Code Act 1995 (Australia)
The Civil Case Laws
Criminal Code Act 1995 (Australia)
NSW Crimes Act of 1900
NSW Law Enfrocement (Powere and Responsibilities) Act 2002
Commonwealth Copyright Act 1968

Chapter 03
The Raid
List of Items Seized Made on the Day
Items of Concern in the case
Chronological Events in the Case
Case Documents
First Letter to the Police 27 Oct 2015
Second Letter to the Police 15 Dec 2015
Amended List of Items for Return 11 Jan 2016
Third Letter to the Police 3 Feb 2016
Excerpt of Police Brief to Court of 28 April 2016
Amended List of Items for Return 31 Mar 2016
Email on List of Items for Return 11 May 2016
Application to the Local Court 28 June 2016
Application to the Local Court 28 June 2016
Application to the Local Court 12 December 2016
Excerpt of Police Brief to Court of 24 February 2017
Statutory Declaration dated 5 September 2017
Statutory Declaration dated 5 September 2017
The Attached 2 Page Document
Statutory Declaration dated 5 September 2017
Statutory Declaration dated 29 May 20019
Letter to the Magistrate 13 June 2019
Statutory Declaration dated October 2019
Statutory Declaration dated November 20019
The Appeal
Appeal Contents
Key Points from the Proeprty Case
Background Information
Local News Media
Unanswered Questions
Final Points

The titles in use are a Chapter, a Sub-chapter, and a section.

Images

Activities to 1 February 2020
Expenses to 1 February 2020
Coats
USB Devices

All of the images are also available in high definition at:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ebk8ve052m0c1rs/AACohN7e_x8OuRFrn0EbQ2L6a?dl=0

Originally released in September 2016 as Modern Day Witch Hunt then updated due to events as they happened. This 3 March 2020 edition is heavily revised due to the end of all of the Court cases covering the criminal charges and civil case. This is the absolutely final version.

Foreword

This is written in the third person as it’s a report of true events and information. I’ve tried very hard to keep my emotions out of this report on the events and this reporting style helps with doing that.

Some of the content is repeated as it’s in chapters about the content and also in documents relating to the case. Also, now the cases are over some details that were previously withheld due to legal concerns relating to an ongoing case have now been included in this account.

Court Staff: The Magistrates and most of the Court Staff were all very courteous and professional in their interaction during this matter, and they dealt with the various cases as best and speedily as they could in light of their work load and the actions of the others involved in the case.

The only exception I make to that statement is the regular Registrar of the Court due to how that person granted the search warrant on such tenuous reasons and later refused to allow me to have copies of several important Court documents despite offers by me to pay for the copying.

Police Officers: The majority of the Police officers involved in the cases were professional and polite in their interactions during the course of this matter. However, the Police officer in charge of the case was very different in his behaviour, attitude, and handling of the matter. I don’t know if the multitude of the Police delays were due to planned actions or incompetence or just plain lack of interest in dealing with the matters that caused the four and a half years of delays in having all of the matters resolved. Some of the reasons for the delays do tend toward malicious actions by the Police case officer and some of the senior station staff.

Legal Aid is not free, but is a loan because it’s based on property and not a person’s income. So owning a hovel means it all has to be repaid as against not owning any property means the government pays it all.