Courts and Trials

A court has heard that the woman accused of murdering her father by injecting him with her own insulin was last seen at his house hours before he was found unconscious. 

Coroner Terry Ryan finds police officers "missed opportunities" to protect Samantha Schulte and remove firearms from her estranged husband before the siege.

A Melbourne couple charged with enslaving a woman at their Melbourne home for 10 months has been ordered to stand trial, after several court delays and changes to their legal representation.

Luke Gilbert is alleged to have approached two police officers with a knife before they shot him dead last October. A coronial inquest is underway that will consider whether police complied with policies and procedures.

A subdivision in a South Australian town with a severe housing shortage is stopped by the Native Vegetation Council because of the diversity of plant species on the property. Three rare animals may also live there.

The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation seeks $500 million a year in compensation from Fortescue Metals Group, for losses caused by the company's Solomon Hub in WA.

A rape case highlighting sexual assault and harassment issues in the mining industry ends with a former fly-in fly-out worker being sentenced to five years in jail.

Lawyers for billionaire Gina Rinehart seek to demolish a claim by a former business partner of her father Lang Hancock to a share of the jewel in her lucrative iron ore empire.

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

Family and friends of the slain teen clapped and sighed with relief in court in Dubbo this morning when Craig Rumsby, 56, was jailed for at least 24 years.

The Pilbara's Yinjibarndi traditional owners are seeking $500 million a year from Andrew Forrest's FMG, due to "economic and cultural loss" caused by mining.

The former US president says "there is no way I can get a fair trial" and he will seek Judge Tanya Chutkan's recusal as well as a change of venue.

With Fortescue and Pilbara native title holders unable to agree on compensation for "economic and cultural loss" caused by mining, the Federal Court will begin hearing evidence in Roebourne today.

The ACT's attorney-general says Shane Drumgold's role as director of public prosecutions is "no longer tenable" and he has accepted his resignation after his handling last year of the investigation into Bruce Lehrmann.

Growing up in an outback town she was exposed to injustice at an early age and set her sights on fighting for the rights of First Nations people. Now a nominee in the Australian Law Awards, the 36-year-old says Australia has the answers to its crippling incarceration issues.

A judge in Texas rules the state's abortion ban must allow allow exceptions for people with pregnancy complications without doctors fearing they will be criminally charged.

Legal experts say the conviction could end Khan's chances of participating in national elections that have to be held before early November.

US prosecutors flagged a threatening social media post from Donald Trump in a late-night court filing, arguing that it suggests he might intimidate witnesses by improperly disclosing confidential evidence received from the government.

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

For almost 25 years the mystery of a teenager's murder left a close-knit community wondering if a killer walked among them. Now, new details of how undercover police caught her murderer have been revealed.

Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was sentenced to two years jail in March over comments he made in 2019 that were deemed insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

This marks the fifth criminal conviction and the third and longest prison term handed to Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, which supporters see as a strategy to silence him.

A Romanian court rules the controversial internet personality and his brother can travel around Bucharest for 60 days.

The head of ABC's investigations unit Jo Puccini says she did not check the source material that led to stories about allegations of a war crime because it was not her job and she trusted the journalist.

A woman accused of killing a prominent South Australian neuropsychologist in a hit-and-run crash on Goodwood Road has given evidence in Adelaide's District Court, rejecting prosecution accusations that she knew she had hit a pedestrian.