By Cameron Houston, The Age The state’s corruption watchdog is investigating Victoria Police over allegations that information from privileged conversations between a senior member of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang and his lawyer was potentially used to build a legal…
By BBC News Germany is famous for having no speed limits on stretches of its motorways, but a Czech millionaire appearing to do 417km/h (260 mph) may have been testing the limit of what's tolerable. Radim Passer is now being…
Mining billionaire says world-first prosecution aims to prevent Australians being scammed through clickbait advertising on social media By Cait Kelly The Guardian The Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest has launched criminal proceedings against Facebook alleging the tech giant breached federal anti-money laundering laws…
By James Clayton & Jasmin Dyer BBC News Play video here... Amber Norsworthy lives in Mississippi with her four children. It had just turned 3pm when she got home on 27 December. She received a notification on her phone. "My…
By BBC World News A Canadian father who has not been vaccinated against Covid has temporarily lost the right to see his 12-year-old child. A judge ruled his visits would not be in the child's "best interest". It followed a…
By Errol Parker “I’m so going to get you to defend me if I get done for DUI or something, how funny would that be?” That’s the fourth time Alice Munro has been told that since she posed with her…
By Tammy Mills and Adam Cooper Cleaver Greene, the fictional cocaine-snorting, alcohol-swilling, lovable larrikin lawyer from TV’s Rake is hardly a conventional poster boy for Victoria’s courts. Nevertheless, Richard Roxburgh – who played Greene, the walking scandal of a criminal defence barrister,…
By politcal reporter Eliza Laschon Campaigns have been waged for a decade, almost a billion dollars spent and yet women and children continue to face deadly threats in their homes. A 12-year national plan to reduce domestic violence is nearing its…
By Naomi Neilson Although a recent High Court decision to appeal a family law matter after it found the personal relationship between a trial judge and a barrister “particularly troubling” may inform impartiality in ongoing cases moving forward, one lawyer…
By Aja Styles, WA Today West Australian Attorney-General John Quigley and his legal advisors have been caught in the centre of an unprecedented dispute between the president of the Children’s Court and one of his magistrates. Magistrate Catherine Crawford has…