By consumer affairs reporter Amy Bainbridge The consumer watchdog is suing Facebook’s parent company, Meta, accusing it of failing to take action against scammers on its social media platform. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleges the company engaged in false, misleading…
By Legal Cheek Research places plasterers top for bedroom prowess — legal professionals finish bottom New research has ranked various professions according to their abilities in the bedroom — and its not looking good for lawyers. The survey of 2,000…
Tony Wittman admits holding victim hostage at Melbourne Lost Dogs Home with an assault weapon while dressed in military-style By AAP, Guardian Newspaper A former soldier has blamed post-traumatic stress disorder caused in part by two army tours in Afghanistan…
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,…