Courts

A Supreme Court judge has dismissed a Darwin construction company's bid to overturn a $550,000 fine it received after one of its employees was killed on a remote worksite in 2020.

A 52-year-old who committed violent sexual crimes against three woman and tried to attack a fourth is jailed for his crimes, nearly three decades later thanks to a DNA breakthrough.

Kimberley man Brian John Leering, 22, will spend at least four years behind bars over the 2022 attack.

Donald Trump's fight to end automatic citizenship for people born on US soil has reached the Supreme Court, with justices grappling with whether to maintain a freeze on his attempt.

A 25-year-old refugee who sexually assaulted two women and a teenage girl was told by a judge "even in Iraq, you shouldn't be harassing women like this".

The family of Canberra man Harri Jokinen, who was killed during a high-speed police pursuit on the Monaro Highway in 2021, hopes an inquest into his death will lead to a change in policy.

A Perth woman who was pregnant when she fatally stabbed the father of her unborn child in their apartment is jailed for more than five years.

Defence lawyers for accused killer Erin Patterson have suggested a person could survive death cap mushroom poisoning, even after eating the same meal as someone who fell seriously ill.

Nilisi Kaniki was sentenced for the manslaughter of Selma Ibrahim in the Supreme Court in Brisbane on Friday.

A 14-year-old boy charged in relation to the death of a nine-year-old at Windellama has faced court for the first time.

Ellouisa Patricia Brighton, 36, was charged with three counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and one count of arson following the deadly house fire in Toowoomba last week.

Former Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto could be forced out of state parliament after being ordered to pay more than $2.3 million in costs after losing a defamation case brought by fellow MP Moira Deeming.

The triple murder trial of Erin Patterson continues from the Latrobe Valley Law Courts in Morwell. She's accused of killing three relatives who ate a meal she prepared which contained poisonous mushrooms. Follow the trial live.

The South Australian premier says an investigation into an 18-year-old man's alleged threats of a "physical attack" at public events and to an Adelaide school was "the most complex" case he has been briefed on.

War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith fails in a bid to overturn his multi-million-dollar defamation loss against Nine newspapers, which found him complicit in war crimes on the balance of probabilities.

The prosecution's star witness, Casandra "Cassie" Ventura, is cross-examined about drugs, sex and infidelity at Sean "Diddy" Combs's sex trafficking and racketeering trial.

A driver who rammed a motorcyclist into a pole during a road rage incident in Adelaide's south, leaving her with life-threatening injuries, has been jailed.

The Bondi Junction stabbing inquest has revealed numerous "concerning" red flags in Joel Cauchi's behaviour.

Former Olympian cyclist Melissa Hoskins died after being struck by a car driven by her husband outside their Adelaide home. This is how the case against Rohan Dennis unfolded. 

A psychiatrist who approved Joel Cauchi's eligibility to hold a gun licence after he was taken off his schizophrenia medication admits in hindsight he would have done things differently.