Courts and Trials

Thomas Sewell and Jacob Hersant avoid further jail time after they were convicted of a 2021 attack on hikers at a Victorian state park. Prosecutors appealed their sentence claiming it was "inadequate", but today lost.

During a short mention of the case today, Downing Centre Local Court heard a partial brief of evidence has been served.

NSW man Daniel Billings has faced court charged with murdering childcare worker Molly Ticehurst, 28. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the government will look at "every measure" to stop the "horrifying" rates of violence against women.

The documents reveal Bruce Lehrmann refused an offer to settle with Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson before his failed defamation case began hearings. In a submission to the Federal Court, Mr Lehrmann argues he should be compensated for his legal costs, stating Ten embarked on a qualified privilege defence which was "bound to fail".

A prosecutor lays out the "Trump Tower conspiracy", the former president's lawyers argue he's "cloaked in innocence", and a former titan of tabloid media educates jurors on chequebook journalism at the historic hush money trial in New York. 

When Federal Labor Minister Tanya Plibersek learned her daughter Anna had been abused during a high school relationship, it was the beginning of the family’s brutal fight for justice. Now Anna Coutts-Trotter is on a mission to support other survivors grappling with the aftermath of abuse. 

Dean Cluney and Tyrone Gardner were sentenced after pleading guilty to breaking into a home, then intimidating two female occupants before crash that killed Tania Murphy, her sons and a nephew at Yanco.

The identity of Victorian man Steven Leslie Hainsworth — who is charged with murdering three South Australians between 1998 and 2011 — can be revealed for the first time.

Jason Patterson, who killed his half-sister while experiencing a psychotic episode in late 2021, will be transported to a secure mental health facility, where he will be kept until he is deemed safe to return to society.

Mohammed Al Mofathel pleaded guilty to six charges in the ACT Supreme Court over the drug and money laundering scheme run out of a prestige Canberra restaurant.

A drug-affected driver who seriously injured an Adelaide newspaper editor in a high-speed crash in Adelaide's CBD has been sentenced to more than four years in jail. 

The second teen accused of killing Uber driver Scott Cabrie on the Fraser Coast last year has admitted to his role in the man's death.

Erin Patterson's lawyers tell a regional Victorian court they are prepared to wait until next year for the case to progress to a committal hearing, despite an offer from the magistrate to have the matter fast-tracked to a Supreme Court trial.

NSW Police say these men can help with their investigation into the disturbance outside the south-west Sydney church after Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed while giving a sermon.

Anna Coutts-Trotter was a teenager doing well at school, living at home with supportive parents Tanya Plibersek and Michael Coutts-Trotter. But she was being abused by her then-boyfriend.  

Senator Linda Reynolds said she appreciated Brittany Higgins' apology to herself and Fiona Brown, but said if Ms Higgins does not accept Justice Lee's finding there was no cover-up, she will continue with her defamation trial. 

An alleged "cocaine kingpin" and drug mules have been arrested at Melbourne Airport with 30 kilograms of drugs found in their suitcases.

A joint inquest into the deaths of three people has heard of failings and extreme pressures at the Howard Springs quarantine facility during COVID.

A glitch in legislation means convicted sex offender Stephen Mitchell's prison sentence is likely to be slashed. The women at the centre of the case are lobbying the ACT government to ensure the same thing doesn't happen to others.

Investigators in the United States allege both morgue staff and collectors were part of an underground community willing to pay top dollar for human remains. 

Brittany Higgins has posted a statement following last week's judgment in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case. Justice Michael Lee found Ms Higgins was raped at Parliament House.

Sam Haddad faces court after being arrested over his alleged role in the riot that erupted outside Christ The Good Shepherd Church, following the alleged stabbing of Assyrian Orthodox Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.

The Dolphins NRL club and Alternaleaf have been partners for a month but as of this week the online clinic is in trouble with the TGA. 

A man has set himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump's historic "hush-money" trial is taking place.

'We shouldn't put up with it': head of the Family Court says the frequency of violence against women in Australia is a 'national disgrace'.