Courts and Trials

The Victorian Racing Tribunal disqualifies Darren Weir from racing for another two years for using an electronic shock device known as a jigger on three horses.

Troy Smith, who was arrested in April after police found methamphetamine in his hotel room in Bali, is sentenced to six-month drug rehabilitation by an Indonesian court.

The Essex security guard meticulously planned how he would kidnap the This Morning presenter from her home — even going as far as to purchase a kidnap kit for the purpose. 

Leith Dawes takes the office of the ACT's Work Health and Safety Commissioner to the Federal Circuit Court, alleging a breach of general workplace protections.

A Tasmanian artist who built a fire bunker on her property in Tasmania has been fined, for failing to have the permit for its installation.

Courtroom 17 is like any other in the busy Angas Street building, in Adelaide's Victoria Square — here people from all walks of life can be the accused or the victim of family violence. The ABC has been granted access to spend one day in the specialist Family Violence Court.

Giving evidence on the fourth day of a coronial inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman in WA's Mid West, Senior Constable Brent Wyndham says everything he did on the night she died "was right".

The Far North Queensland community leader is accused of strangling a woman, and a separate attack that left her requiring emergency surgery, but his lawyer has told a court the case against him is weak.

A Queensland coroner says a catastrophic fire that claimed a young man's life in 2022 was "most likely" caused by an e-scooter being connected to a charger that caused it to overheat and explode.  

A teenage boy who allegedly wielded a machete during a brawl that sent the Westfield Marion shopping centre into lockdown last month has been granted home detention bail.

Sue Powell, a nurse who cared for the teenager and her newborn baby, told the court she was concerned something might happen "at the hands of Robert Geeves" after learning details about his history with police.

Robbie Awad had been married to Marina Hanna for just 10 days when the buggy he was driving on Hamilton Island tipped and killed his bride.

Jie Shao was jailed six years after the death of 35-year-old Jean Huang, who underwent a banned breast augmentation procedure in Sydney.

A Mount Gambier man incarcerated for drug trafficking has been fined $6,500 for flying a drone near people and at night in one of the largest penalties for an unmanned aircraft.

A man who bought a 3D printer to help his autistic son with school work has been granted bail after spending nine months in jail on weapons manufacture charges.

Claudean Jonathon Williams is alleged to have stolen the SUV from a Kalgoorlie shopping centre where it was parked with six children inside.

Christopher Dillon Joannidis has pleaded guilty to five counts of dangerous driving causing death over the crash at Strathmerton in northern Victoria last year.

Police allege a child was in the boot of a car which crashed in Far North Queensland, resulting in attempted murder charges against a 32-year-old woman.

The 45-year-old stepfather also abused the victim's young sisters. He will be sentenced in WA later this year, but the case has raised disturbing questions about children's safety.

This past week was arguably the worst of Joe Biden's 2024 campaign. And it might have been one of Donald Trump's best. 

A teenage boy who allegedly fled the scene of a fatal crash in Melbourne's east has faced a Children's Court charged with dangerous driving causing death. Two teenage girls also face charges.

The 29-year-old faces two counts of rape, alleged to have occurred in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, in October 2021.

A post-war eugenics law passed in Japan to "prevent birth of inferior descendants" was found in violation of the constitution by the country's top court, with victim-survivors being handed a major win after years of seeking justice.

Hong Kong billionaire media mogul, and democracy advocate, Jimmy Lai is still battling for freedom nearly four years after his arrest on a national security charge.

A coronial inquiry has heard police internal affairs found an officer failed four times to follow the WA Police use of force policy when shooting an armed Indigenous woman in the Mid West city of Geraldton in 2019.