Six NSW convictions in a fortnight. Not one was announced inside three years

Corrected 19 October 2026. Our headline said not one of these convictions took less than three years. Measured to the announcement, as everything here is, that holds. But the sentencing judgments, which we have now read, show the building renovator's conviction was recorded at a hearing on 1 April 2026, 1,071 days after the incident, so the headline now says announced. We also said we had not found a source for the sentencing dates. NSW Caselaw publishes all six judgments, and our own Fenner Dunlop story has carried that matter's 29 July decision date since 1 August; this page did not pick it up until now. Each sentence was handed down two to six days before SafeWork NSW announced it, so from incident to sentence the median is 1,226 days and the range 1,171 to 1,627, none under three years. The judgments also explain the Industrial Court cluster: all four were sentenced on the same day. Changed today: the headline and chart title, the opening paragraph (a conviction and a fine), a sentencing column in the table and the Days header, now Days to announcement, a paragraph on the cluster, the sourcing notes, now saying the day counts run to the announcement and that we have read the judgments for their dates, two sources and the request line at the foot. The announcement figures are unchanged.

Updated 25 August 2026. We said the tight Industrial Court cluster below was the obvious thing to test as more convictions were published. Four more have been, and we have tested it. The cluster did not hold: August's four Industrial matters span 258 days against this fortnight's 61, and two of them came in under three years, which nothing here did. The separation between the two courts did hold, and across all ten cases they still do not overlap. Nothing below is changed; this note is the result we said we would come back with.

How we sourced this

Every defendant, fine, court and incident date is taken from the individual SafeWork NSW media release for that conviction. All six releases were read on 31 July 2026 and are listed below. The day counts, the median of 1,231 days, the range of 1,177 to 1,629 and the comparison between the two courts are our arithmetic on the dates in those releases.

The sentencing dates, judges and hearing dates come from the six judgments on NSW Caselaw, read on 19 October 2026 and listed below by citation. For the building renovator the judgment notes that the conviction was recorded at the sentence hearing on 1 April 2026, 1,071 days after the incident and just under three years; the fine came on 10 July, and the table uses that date. The Myra Corporate charge covers 27 February to 14 April 2022; we measure from the start, as the release does. The incident-to-sentence median of 1,226 days and range of 1,171 to 1,627 are our arithmetic on those dates.

The day counts run to the announcement, not the sentence. These releases say a defendant “has been convicted and fined” without stating when the court did so, so the Days column is measured from the incident to the day SafeWork NSW published. When we published, we had not found the sentencing dates; the judgments now give them, and show the regulator published two to six days after each sentence.

We have read the judgments for their dates only, not for their reasoning, and have read no charge sheet or court list. Nothing here is a claim about why any individual matter took the time it did, or about the conduct of any court, regulator, company or person. The building renovator is not named because the release headline does not name them. We do not name the three individual defendants (the Myra Corporate director, the Crystal Touch director and the building renovator), and cite their judgments by citation only. Defendants retain rights of appeal. The sections headed “The pattern inside the numbers” and What this does and does not mean are our interpretation, built on the sourced dates above.