By ABC News An Adelaide man has been acquitted of trafficking drugs because police secretly replaced cocaine hidden in a hollowed-out novel with icing sugar before the accused collected the item. Nathan John Ralph was charged after Australian Border Force (ABF) officers…
By Evelyn Manfield Urgent legislation is being introduced into the WA Parliament today after police accessed QR code check-in information from the SafeWA app as part of a murder investigation. Attorney-General John Quigley said police had legally issued two notices for businesses…
By ABC News A Lamborghini sports car with just 1,000 km on the clock will be auctioned off by police as its owner sits in a jail cell serving a four-year sentence for a string of driving offences. The purple 2019…
By Cecile O'Connor A West Australian driver has beaten a charge of driving through a stop sign after successfully arguing that the sign itself was missing. Former doctor Sanjulal Sukumaran was acquitted in Geraldton Magistrate's Court last week after the…
Steven Donziger has been detained at home since August 2019, the result of a Kafkaesque legal battle stemming from his crusade on behalf of Indigenous Amazonians By Oliver Milman Many of us will have felt the grip of claustrophobic isolation…
Carlton Tavern reopens six years after planning ruling that campaigners hope will prevent developers demolishing other sites Standing next to the rubble of the Carlton Tavern, its patrons thought that this was just another brazen example of developers skirting the…
By Paul Sakkal and Michael Fowler Victorians who committed minor criminal offences will no longer face barriers getting a job or renting a home under new laws passed by the Andrews government on Thursday. In passing the Spent Convictions Bill,…
Inquiry into 2012 burglary is revived after French police turn up a DNA match for unrelated crime German police say they have solved a nine-year-old burglary case after DNA found on a half-eaten piece of sausage matched that of a…
By Thomas Connelly And you thought ‘cat lawyer’ was strange The shift to online court hearings in response to the coronavirus pandemic has thrown up a whole range of eye-catching headlines. From a topless judge in Brazil to the global sensation that is ‘I’m…
By Rhiannon Shine Read the High Court Judgement here... Western Australia's hard border with the rest of Australia was justified to prevent a potentially catastrophic event, the High Court has found. The High Court today released the reasons for its…