Elizabeth Byrne

The head of an inquiry into judicial fairness as part of the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann is now the one under the spotlight.

The board of inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann made damning findings against the DPP, Shane Drumgold, but police didn't emerge unscathed.

The board of inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann over the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins was sparked by allegations made by ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold against police. But its final report has found those allegations were "incorrect" and "without any rational basis".

A number of passengers of the COVID-affected Ruby Princess had signed a contract waiving rights to join class actions. The customers say that contract breached Australian consumer law.

The High Court of Australia ruled the land at Ponde was invalidly prescribed, and the pair were denied procedural fairness and should have been given notice of the declaration.

A 92-year-old man charged with murdering his wife appears in the ACT Magistrates Court via video link as part of a bedside hearing.

The inquiry, which began in mid-April, was sparked by a letter from the ACT's top prosecutor, claiming police pressured him not to charge Mr Lehrmann and alleging political interference.

Kamilaroi woman Louise Taylor becomes Australia's first female Indigenous Supreme Court judge. It is the second time she has made history, after she was appointed as the ACT's first Indigenous magistrate in 2018.

A Canberra man who admitted sexually abusing his young teenage daughter for more than two years is jailed after his daughter told the ACT Supreme Court he was a monster who had ruined her life.

Christopher Roy Weaver, 40, faces court nearly two years after the death of Laura Crncevic of a heroin overdose.

A consultancy company, run by a self-described "complexity and systems thinker", is suing the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) for allegedly breaching an agreement by suspending a nearly $5 million work contract.

Jake Barrett, 29, awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to culpable driving causing death and grievous bodily harm, following the "horrific" crash in September 2021.

A hearing into the National Security Information Act, used to keep national security cases from public view, has wrapped up after the legal team for lawyer Bernard Collaery called for courts to have more control over how such cases are run.

The entire National Security Information Act will be considered in Canberra today at an independent inquiry looking into whether the law should be changed or even scrapped. 

A traditional Chinese massage therapist who raped and sexually assaulted six women at his place of work is sentenced to three years and two months in jail, but will only serve 16 months.

After a crash on the Monaro Highway last year, the 16-year-old driver and another boy left the two girls in the crushed back seat and fled the scene, hailing an Uber to take them home.

The ACT's Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold went on leave in May, during hearings for the board of inquiry into the case against Bruce Lehrmann. He is due to return to his job on July 3.

The High Court dismisses a bid by Russia to prevent the Commonwealth from taking control of a site it leased for a new embassy.

Scullin man Muhammad Ali is found guilty of indecently touching a boy at the daycare centre where he worked, although he has been cleared of charges in relation to another child.

A Canberra court hears how a man was "shattered" when his girlfriend died from an overdose of drugs he had supplied to her.

Kenan Dowden-Carlisle, who previously pleaded guilty to stabbing Jordan Powell in broad daylight in 2021, tells a court he mistakenly believed Mr Powell took his satchel containing his drugs.

A 31-year-old man pleads guilty to choking two teenagers in retaliation for a slapping game gone wrong, in which he believed his stepson was hurt.

An army officer who was on board the Defence helicopter that started the devastating January 2020 Orroral Valley fire near Canberra tells a coronial inquest he had forgotten to turn off the searchlight that sparked the blaze.

Bruce Lehrmann's interview on 7NEWS Spotlight was largely a retelling of the defence arguments in his trial but, for many Australians, it was the first time hearing his version of events, in his own words.

At the outset, Walter Sofronoff thought he would have to consider if charges should have been laid against Bruce Lehrmann. But when he asked anyone involved in the inquiry if they wanted to argue against the prosecution, you could hear a pin drop.