Australian coach held for Pa. court on rape charge The Examiner Comments | DANIELSVILLE, Pa. (Map, News) - An Australian cycling coach is being held for trial on charges that he raped a teenage girl in her eastern Pennsylvania home. | District Judge William Zaun sent the case against 51-year-old Rick Lee to Northampton County Court on Wednesday. Lee is being hel...
Climate tax may end up in court, says French Sydney Morning Herald | NEW laws to impose taxes to tackle climate change are likely to end up before the High Court, the new Chief Justice, Robert French, predicted yesterday. | Justice French, who walks to work and has a hybrid electric car, said there was "a very powerful body of evidence about climate change issues" ...
Intervention caused murders - lawyers The Australian | THE intervention into remote Aboriginal communities can be blamed for an increase in the number of murders in the Northern Territory, lawyers say. | Widespread grog bans and welfare guaranteeing were enforced in June 2007 as part of the emergency m...
Law Society in grower's sights The Australian | ROLAND Chatterton believes he is the perfect example of one of the main problems with the scheme that is supposed to protect the clients of South Australia's solicitors. | Three years ago, some of the clients of leading Adelaide firm Magarey Farlam...
Lawyer blames intervention for rash of Territory murders The Australian | THE principal lawyer for the Northern Territory's peak Aboriginal legal aid service says his organisation is dealing with an unprecedented number of murder cases, which he links to failures of the federal intervention. | Glen Dooley said the North ...
Court told of 'torture' attack Sydney Morning Herald | IT WAS a crime that shocked a judge and left a victim and her young son traumatised. | Mark James Dennis, 38, is facing up to 25 years in jail for raping a 26-year-old mother in front of her four-year-old son and then pouring gunpowder in the woman...
Courts' divorce makes for a long split Sydney Morning Herald | Even as a divorce lawyer, I found it good news to hear the Bureau of Statistics reported last week that the divorce rate is decreasing. The bureau said there were 47,963 divorces granted in Australia last year, down from 51,375 in 2006. If people a...
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Bin Laden driver guilty of war crimes The Australian | GUANTANAMO BAY: Osama bin Laden's former driver was found guilty early today at the first US war crimes trial since World War II. | The jury of six military officers at Guantanam...
Radovan Karadzic in clash with UN tribunal judge The Australian | FORMER Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had his first skirmishes with the UN war crimes tribunal yesterday: he was cut short by the judge when he tried to protest over his ar...
New chief justice to be WA's first Canberra Times Robert French is to be the new chief justice of the High Court of Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced. | Mr Rudd said Justice French, a judge of the Federal Court of...
Justice Michael Kirby to quit early if pension granted The Australian | JUSTICE Michael Kirby is being tipped to leave the High Court at the end of this year, well before the famed workaholic is forced from office in March. | The "Great Dissenter" has let it be known inside the court he will be content to retire early ...
Greenpeace storm 'illegal' logging vessel in PNG Australian Broadcasting Corporation | This is a transcript from PM. The program is broadcast around Australia at 5:10pm on Radio National and 6:10pm on ABC Local Radio. | You can also listen to the story in and and formats. | Greenpeace storm 'illegal' logging vessel in PNG | PM - Wedn...
University of Melbourne exam 'secrets' come out in court The Australian | UNIVERSITIES hoping to keep past exam materials secret by invoking the public interest have been warned they will usually lose in court. | Legal academic Jim Jackson said he was surprised to see the University of Melbourne resist the release of exa...
Conviction and jail rates still on the rise in NSW courts Sydney Morning Herald | THE number of people sentenced to jail in NSW continues to rise, as does the conviction rate. | The latest figures show that 87 per cent of people who appear before the local courts plead guilty or are found guilty. | The NSW Bureau of Crime Statis...
Top judge's tribute to Aboriginal history The Australian | ROBERT French broke new ground yesterday with a tribute to the role of indigenous people in Australia's history as he was sworn in as the nation's 12th Chief Justice. | Chief Justice French, the first West Australian to fill the role, said his reco...
New high court chief justice sworn in The Australian | THE new chief justice of the High Court of Australia, Robert French, has been sworn in. | Chief Justice French was sworn in by long-time friend and High Court Justice William Gummow in Canberra today. | "The seat I have taken today is one of great ...
Australia scraps tough asylum seeker law The State By ROHAN SULLIVAN - Associated Press Writer | SYDNEY, Australia -- | Australia will scrap most of the country's tough rules on locking up asylum seekers, but retain the practice for potential refugees who may be a security threat, the government announced Tuesday. | The changes further wind back rules imposed by the previous government that made de...
Asif Ali Zardari 'mentally unstable': report The Australian | ASIF Ali Zardari's past returned to haunt him yesterday as his quest to become the president of nuclear-armed Pakistan was overshadowed by reports showing he had been diagnosed with severe psychiatric illnesses and had shown suicidal tendencies. | London's Financial Times newspaper reported that it had viewed medical reports filed with Britain's ...
