Courts and Trials

Mass shooter Benjamin Hoffmann may be unrepresented in an upcoming court case over an alleged prison assault, after his lawyer withdrew due to ongoing funding issues.

Two women have fronted court for the first time after allegedly leaving a three-year-old girl on a day care bus for several hours.

The mother of the three children who were found dead after a house fire in WA's Pilbara region has been charged with murder.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Australia opposes the death penalty, calling on the junta to release unjustly detained prisoners and end violence in the country.

The sale of accused fraudster Melissa Caddick's Sydney property "should proceed posthaste" a judge has said, as a possible court battle brews between her parents and out-of-pocket investors.

A thirteen-year-old Canberra boy who was charged with the shooting murder of Glenn Walewicz has had his charges dropped.

The parents of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee, who has been comatose since suffering "catastrophic" brain damage, have lost a court appeal to stop doctors turning off his life support.

A District Court judge jails a former WA police officer for sexually abusing a young girl more than 40 years ago, telling the man he left her with a lifelong sentence.

A Federal court finds the Morrison government's approval for a tailings dam in Tasmania's wilderness area is invalid, prompting calls for people arrested during protests there to be compensated as "citizen heroes".

Three years after killing four people in a shooting rampage in Darwin, Benjamin Hoffman is edging closer to being sentenced. 

CCTV and mobile phone footage of Lila Walto ramming a corrective services vehicle to free her partner Kane Quinn.

A friend of Gomeroi man Gordon Copeland said he fled from officers because there was "more of a chance of them bashing you or doing something to you" in a remote location.

Mohinder Singh is appealing against the 22-year sentence he was handed over the deaths of four Victoria Police officers in 2020, arguing the penalty is too harsh.

A brazen escape plan by Lila Walto to spring her partner from jail has landed her with a six-year prison term in the ACT Supreme Court. 

Among those executed was former hip-hop artist and ousted MP Phyo Zeya Thaw, who has close ties to Australia and whose death has sent a ripple of shock through the diaspora community here.

Domenic Perre, who was found guilty of killing a detective and seriously injuring a lawyer in the 1994 National Crime Authority (NCA) bombing, is seeking leave to appeal against his conviction.

A man who was drunk and speeding when he caused the "senseless, needless and brutal death" of his daughter-in-law in a boat crash on the Brisbane River will be deported after serving time in jail.

A 13-year-old has charges against him dropped over the alleged murder of a 48-year-old man in Canberra's south last year.

Drew Pavlou, who has been accused of sending a bomb threat to the Chinese Embassy in London, believes his client has been set up.

He was the principal of an elite Brisbane school who allegedly took children for overnight stays at popular motels and lavished money on his alleged victims and their families, but it took 25 years for police to secure a conviction.

A Federal Court action launched against the company responsible for caring for Adelaide woman Ann Marie Smith, who died in alleged neglect, has been delayed.

A man is charged with murder after the discovery of a woman's body in Sydney's north-west on Saturday.

A Chinese court has overruled a rare legal challenge brought by an unmarried Beijing woman who was refused access to egg-freezing services by a hospital.

A South Australian teenager has been found not guilty of dangerous driving in a head-on crash that killed three people in the state's South East almost two years ago.

A Federal Court judge says a class action against the government being brought by Torres Strait Island native title holders should be dealt with in a timely fashion, because the plaintiffs are watching "the march of the sea on a daily basis".