Courts

The judge presiding over the trial of Rajwinder Singh, accused of the 2018 murder of Toyah Cordingley, is summing up the case before the jury goes out to deliberate.

An 18-year-old who had been a cadet captain in the Country Fire Service admits deliberately lighting a bushfire near Naracoorte, but mental health conditions lower the sentence he might otherwise have been given.

An international drug kingpin once described as "Asia's El Chapo" is sentenced after an "unusual" deal between a former Australian attorney-general and Dutch authorities.

A special proceedings hearing in the Supreme Court in Broome heard that Ian Ralph Brooke was suffering from an acute psychotic disorder when he fatally stabbed a 27-year-old in 2023. 

A California doctor is imprisoned for illegally supplying Friends sitcom star Matthew Perry with ketamine, the powerful sedative that caused the actor's drug overdose death in 2023.

The Elizabeth City Centre shopping centre was placed in lockdown with shoppers evacuated on Friday afternoon after an alleged fight that left two males with "critical" and "life-threatening" injuries.

A man charged with murder is refused bail as another faces extradition over a shooting on the NSW North Coast that left one man dead and two others injured.

With his defamation appeal dismissed and legal costs rising, Bruce Lehrmann is almost out of options. A High Court bid is possible, but what would it take to get there?

A remote rent policy that saw some Northern Territory residents slugged with hikes of up to $300 a fortnight has been struck down on appeal by the High Court.

A regional Victorian footballer and youth worker are facing drug trafficking charges after being caught with a package allegedly containing illegal drugs.

A woman on trial for the alleged murder of 72-year-old Victorian man John Hunter tells the Supreme Court she was present when he was attacked but another person was responsible for his death.

Rajwinder Singh, 41, is accused of the 24-year-old's 2018 murder. A trial in the Supreme Court in Cairns is entering its final stages.

Bruce Lehrmann has lost his appeal against a Federal Court ruling that found on the balance of probabilities he raped his then-colleague Brittany Higgins in 2019.

Long before Greg Lynn was convicted of murder in Victoria's High Country, his estranged wife died suddenly at home in Mount Macedon. Now, some of those closest to Lisa Lynn are pushing for the coroner to re-examine her death.

A former childcare worker has pleaded guilty to assaulting a three-year-old in the New South Wales Central West. The 18-year-old woman was sacked by the centre after the incident.

A 44-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of his partner near Darwin, and has been extradited from Victoria ahead of his first appearance in the Darwin Local Court.

A trainee surgeon accused of secretly filming women in hospital toilets and bathroom is facing hundreds of additional charges.

Bruce Lehrmann has lost his appeal against a Federal Court ruling that found on the balance of probabilities he had raped his then-colleague Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and assault charges.

Victoria's Supreme Court lifts a suppression order that prohibited reporting on convicted murderer Greg Lynn's past interactions with police and the death of his first wife.