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Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak expresses support for strict Islamic laws as he seeks to consolidate support of ethnic Malay Muslims at a party meeting this week.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, corruption, malaysia, asia
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Police arrest a 15-year-old boy over a wild high-speed car chase through communities north of Melbourne last week.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, youth, watsonia-3087, kilmore-3764, melbourne-3000, thomastown-3074
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Abuse victims at Yeshiva Melbourne and Yeshiva Bondi were let down by rabbis and their "confused" adherence to the principle of the Jewish law, the royal commission finds.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, australia, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe driver of a ute which crashed into a cafe at Ravenshoe in far north Queensland, causing a fatal explosion, is charged over the 2015 tragedy.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, disasters-and-accidents, ravenshoe-4872, qld, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA prisoner accidentally released from jail more than two years early is among 91 Queensland inmates freed before their due date, since 2004, the state's auditor-general says.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, state-parliament, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedAttorney-General George Brandis will face another Senate inquiry to determine his role in the West Australian Government's bid to claw back nearly $1 billion from a corporate collapse.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, wa, australia
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| UpdatedThe Anglican Church was aware of the inappropriate behaviour of a serial paedophile priest as far back as the early 2000s but failed to act, the Diocese of Bunbury admits.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, anglicans, royal-commissions, bunbury-6230, perth-6000, albany-6330, wa
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Police will be given extra powers under proposed Queensland laws to demand phone and computer passwords from known sex offenders, in a bid to prevent child abuse.
Topics: laws, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, state-parliament, child-abuse, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedA doctor involved in the evacuation of a sick Iranian asylum seeker from Manus Island recommended he be flown to Brisbane ahead of Port Moresby due to PNG's lower level of emergency care, an inquest into his death hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, brisbane-4000, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedHuman remains found this morning at the rear of a special education centre at Brighton on Brisbane's northside may have been there for more than 10 years, police say.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, brighton-4017
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government backs down on its plan to transfer Indigenous teenagers involved in recent riots at a youth detention centre to the maximum-security Barwon Prison.
Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000, vic
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An online robot lawyer designed to help people represent themselves in court state their case to the sentencing magistrate will be launched by a Melbourne law firm this week.
Topics: robots-and-artificial-intelligence, science-and-technology, law-crime-and-justice, judges-and-legal-profession, courts-and-trials, melbourne-3000, australia, vic
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| UpdatedAn attempt to remove David Morrison as the 2016 Australian of the Year is defeated in Federal Parliament, as the controversy over his handling of the so-called Jedi Council sex scandal intensifies.
Topics: defence-forces, army, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, canberra-2600, australia, act
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Soon, for the first time, the most senior judge in Australia will be a woman. This is what Susan Kiefel will be doing as chief justice.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, laws, act
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A Melbourne man who sexually assaulted a young mother sleeping next to her partner, aggressively biting and kissing her on the neck, lips and face, is sentenced to four years' jail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedOfficers from the homicide and gangs squad raid more than a dozen properties across Sydney as part of a major investigation into a string of targeted gangland shootings.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA man shot by South Australian police after allegedly abducting a pregnant woman and two young children in Adelaide is charged.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe West Australian Police Commissioner condemns a proposal by Labor to allow police to ram cars off the road during pursuits, saying the practice is "highly dangerous" and poses an unacceptable risk.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, crime, wa
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Chief Justice Designate of the High Court Susan Kiefel says she is "honoured by the appointment".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, australia
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Susan Kiefel has been announced as the first female Chief Justice of the High Court, and a strong showing during her nine years on the bench has prepared her well for the role, writes High Court reporter Elizabeth Byrne.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, laws, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Germany's highest court rejects an appeal filed by a man known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", who was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at the Nazi death camp.
Topics: world-war-2, law-crime-and-justice, history, community-and-society, human-interest, germany
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Oskar Groening, dubbed the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", is pictured during his trial in Lueneburg, Germany, July 15, 2015.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, history-education, human-interest, germany
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| UpdatedDavid Cecchin, a member of paedophile Shannon McCoole's child exploitation website, is sentenced to seven years and five months in jail.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa
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Police have been involved in a dramatic shooting in the centre of Adelaide after a man allegedly abducted a woman and her two children, threatening a 3-year-old with a gun. The incident happened last night in the city where the man was seen arguing with the woman and then leaving with her, the toddler and a 9-month-old baby in the car.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA huge amount of work is being done across the Pacific to reduce the incidence of domestic violence - but we rarely hear from those on the front line.
Topics: domestic-violence, law-crime-and-justice, pacific, fiji