Courts and Trials

• Prison sentence for an 'alcohol fuelled' attack

  ABC Mildura-Swan Hill

  By Simon Galletta

  Posted March 03, 2017 17:14:10

  A man has been sentenced to prison over an attack that left another man with a fractured skull and cognitive impairment in Victoria's north west.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, mildura-3500

• Daniel Adolph, 25, escaped with a community corrections order in the Mildura County Court image

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  ABC News

  Posted March 03, 2017 17:14:10

  Topics: courts-and-trials, mildura-3500

• Man who killed nurse 'in prime of her life' sentenced to 20 years in prison

  By Sarah Hawke

  Posted March 03, 2017 15:33:34 | Updated March 03, 2017 15:59:16

  Robert Adams, 64, will serve at least 15 years in jail for the murder of Sydney nurse Mary Wallace more than 30 years ago.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crows-nest-2065

• Man jailed over crash that killed mother, injured kids

  By Nicolas Perpitch

  Posted March 03, 2017 14:50:40 | Updated March 03, 2017 17:52:49

  A man who killed a woman in a head-on crash and injured her two young children while over the legal blood alcohol limit is jailed for four and a half years.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, road, landsdale-6065

• Amber Harrison could have 'scandalous material' against Seven West Media

  By senior business correspondent Peter Ryan

  Posted March 03, 2017 13:51:58

  Amber Harrison's planned counter claim against Seven West Media could contain "scurrilous and scandalous material", the NSW Supreme Court is told.

  Topics: media, industry, business-economics-and-finance, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, nsw

• Nanny assaulted in car park dies in Poland as alleged attacker appears in Brisbane court

  Posted March 03, 2017 13:33:57 | Updated March 03, 2017 17:31:28

  Detective Superintendent Michael O'Dowd confirms that in a "sad set of circumstances" a 24-year-old nanny sexually assaulted in Brisbane last year has died in a traffic incident in Poland days before her alleged attacker has appeared in court.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, poland

• Accused Family Court bomber formally pleads not guilty over murders and bombings

  By court reporter Jamelle Wells

  Posted March 03, 2017 11:05:03 | Updated March 03, 2017 12:55:08

  Leonard John Warwick formally pleads not guilty to a string of murders and bombings in Sydney in the 1980s.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000

• Crime kingpin Rocco Arico sentenced to 14 years' jail, facing deportation

  By Emma Younger

  Posted March 03, 2017 10:50:35 | Updated March 03, 2017 11:36:30

  High level drug dealer and standover man Rocco Arico is sentenced to 14 years' jail for extortion and drug trafficking, and will likely be deported back to Italy when he is released.

  Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, brunswick-3056, vic, melbourne-3000

• 'Get rid of the bong': Man recalls reaction to finding daughter dead

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted March 02, 2017 17:07:03 | Updated March 03, 2017 00:01:18

  A Brisbane man tells the Supreme Court his first thought upon discovering the body of his daughter on his lounge room floor was to get rid of a bong before calling police.

  Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, child-abuse, brisbane-4000

• 'I am guilty': Canberra man owns up to murder

  By Elizabeth Byrne

  Posted March 02, 2017 16:45:27 | Updated March 02, 2017 17:40:20

  A 41-year-old Canberra man changes his plea over the death of another man at the Stuart Flats in Griffith last year.

  Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, griffith-2603, canberra-2600, act, australia

• 'You look just like a murderer': Rayney defamation trial hears of 'unimaginable' stress

  By Joanna Menagh

  Posted March 02, 2017 16:34:04 | Updated March 02, 2017 18:19:48

  Even from across the globe in London Lloyd Rayney has been recognised, his multi-million-dollar defamation trial hears, as the Perth barrister reveals the stress at being named the "prime and only suspect" in his wife's murder.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, perth-6000, wa

• Ex-Army sergeant jailed for murder near Newcastle

  1233 ABC Newcastle

  By Giselle Wakatama

  Posted March 02, 2017 15:22:10 | Updated March 02, 2017 16:35:25

  A decorated ex-Army sergeant has been told to 'rot in hell' after being jailed in Newcastle for a 2014 stabbing murder.

  Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, police, windale-2306, newcastle-2300

• 'Motivated by reward': Hong Kong man jailed over record WA ice haul

  By Courtney Bembridge

  Posted March 02, 2017 15:17:07 | Updated March 02, 2017 16:46:32

  A Hong Kong man caught with more than 300 kilograms of methylamphetamine — the largest seizure of the drug in Western Australia — will have to spend at least 18 years behind bars.

  Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa, canning-vale-6155, south-hedland-6722

• Holsworthy Army Barracks driver not guilty over fatal truck crash

  By court reporter Karl Hoerr, Ursula Malone and Sue Daniel

  Posted March 02, 2017 12:34:19 | Updated March 02, 2017 14:16:37

  Former trainee soldier Alexander Gall is found not guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of a colleague during a training exercise at Sydney's Holsworthy Barracks in 2012.

  Topics: army, defence-forces, courts-and-trials, holsworthy-2173, sydney-2000, nsw

• 'Monkey bike' rider pleads guilty to killing Melbourne mother

  Posted March 02, 2017 11:16:02 | Updated March 02, 2017 13:02:20

  Caleb Jakobsson pleads guilty to hitting and killing a mother-of-two with his mini-motorbike at a Melbourne shopping centre.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, carrum-downs-3201, vic, melbourne-3000

• Westpac not alone in ASIC's dodgy home loan investigation

  By business reporter Michael Janda

  Posted March 02, 2017 10:22:55 | Updated March 02, 2017 13:54:42

  The corporate regulator says it has been investigating up to 11 lenders over their home lending practices, after announcing court action against Westpac.

  Topics: banking, regulation, housing-industry, courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, australia

• Man added to sex offenders register for Facebook messages

  By Edith Bevin

  Posted March 02, 2017 09:44:34 | Updated March 02, 2017 17:35:23

  A Tasmanian man who tried to seduce a 14-year-old girl over Facebook is added to the sex offenders register and sentenced to community service.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, child-abuse, tas

• Tasmania seeks to broaden definition of rape

  By Edith Bevin

  Posted March 02, 2017 09:41:37

  The Tasmanian Government is moving to broaden the definition of rape in legislation to be introduced in April, making the charge more gender-neutral and to recognise a raft of non-consensual sex acts.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, hobart-7000, tas

• Mass killer Anders Breivik loses human rights case against Norway

  Posted March 02, 2017 01:41:41

  Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik loses a human rights case, with an appeals court overturning a lower court verdict that his near-isolation in a three-room cell was inhuman.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, rights, human, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, norway

• No evidence linking patient's discharge from Fremantle hospital to her death: coroner

  By Garrett Mundy

  Posted March 01, 2017 17:34:00

  The West Australian coroner says he is unable to determine if the care of post-surgical patient Christine Stroner at Fremantle Hospital may have contributed to her death after she was discharged.

  Topics: healthcare-facilities, courts-and-trials, death, fremantle-6160, wa, perth-6000

• Rope used to lock 3yo in room while dad slept, manslaughter sentencing hears

  By Andrew Kos

  Posted March 01, 2017 17:17:49 | Updated March 01, 2017 19:31:08

  A Brisbane father who has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his three-year-old girl locked her in a bedroom using rope while he slept in the day, and would slap her like an adult, his sentencing hearing is told.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, brisbane-4000, qld

• Justice being 'denied' in SA due to long waits for psychiatric reports

  Exclusive by court reporter Candice Prosser

  Posted March 01, 2017 16:38:33 | Updated March 01, 2017 16:54:51

  Lengthy delays in obtaining psychiatric reports are delaying the finalisation of serious court cases and keeping disadvantaged defendants on remand, South Australian lawyers and judges warn.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, mental-health, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa

• Vision from a demonstration of 3D printed firearms in 2013. Video

  Video
  ABC News

  16sec

  Posted March 01, 2017 14:43:20

  Sicen Sun, 27, was arrested and charged with various offences relating to the manufacture of firearms using a 3D printer. after detectives searched his Waverley unit in Sydney's east.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, police, computers-and-technology, waverley-2024

• Sheep shearers plead guilty to animal cruelty

  ABC Rural

  By Jess Davis and Rachel Hayter

  Posted March 01, 2017 14:38:41

  Australia's peak shearing body says animal cruelty cases heard in western Victoria this week has forever changed the industry.

  Topics: sheep-production, courts-and-trials, animal-welfare, horsham-3400

• Lloyd Rayney suffered 'stain on reputation', defamation trial hears

  Posted March 01, 2017 14:04:26 | Updated March 01, 2017 19:26:23

  Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney suffered a "dreadful stain on his reputation" after being named as a suspect in his wife's death, the WA Supreme Court is told.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, police, perth-6000, kings-park-6005, como-6152

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