By Tony Zhang WA to streamline restraining order system By Tony Zhang|12 October 2020 A new restraining order system is set to be in place for Western Australians with a new model aimed to streamline contested family violence restraining order…
By Rebecca Trigger Bradley Robert Edwards is found guilty of murdering Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer, but not guilty of killing 18-year-old Sarah Spiers, all of whom disappeared from the Perth suburb of Claremont in the mid-1990s in what became…
Advocates condemn ‘aggressive tough-on-crime approach’ to sentencing of Aboriginal children By Lorena Allam The rate of imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in the Northern Territory is 43 times the rate for non-Indigenous children and 17 times…
By Baz Ruddick When removalist John Siaki witnessed a man hitting his wife he says it shocked him so much, he decided he needed to do something about it. "I felt powerless … as if he had hit me," he…
A magistrate has been arrested and charged with deception over alleged traffic offences involving his car. Magistrate Robert Harrap has been charged with two counts of deception and one count of conspiracy to commit the offence of abuse of public…
By Legal Cheek Florida’s Samuel J. Rabin Jr. takes no chances A criminal defence lawyer has rocked up to court in a full hazmat suit. Samuel J. Rabin Jr. recently attended a sentencing hearing at a federal courthouse in Miami,…
By Lucy Cormack A highly secret police strike force has been set up to investigate the conduct of senior police in the NSW drug squad. The investigation, revealed by News Corp on Thursday, has been coined strike force dominion and…
By Jamie Doward Libel case over the Sun’s claim that star abused his ex-wife Amber Heard opens this week The fusty confines of London’s high court get the Hollywood treatment this week when it considers a blockbuster libel action and…
By AAP A commercial rock lobster catcher in Western Australia’s Mid West region has been slapped with the heaviest fishing offence-related penalties in the state’s history — almost $8 million. Geraldton-based Sam Vincent Basile repeatedly committed offences including fishing in…
By CJ McKinney James Andrew Wilson reported himself to the SRA after malicious communications conviction A junior lawyer has been fined £10,000 after a conviction for sending abusive messages to a woman he met through the Bumble dating app. Legal…