Australian courts

Litigation funding companies and law firms took over 40 percent of the money won by class action litigants between 2009 and 2020, amounting to almost $1 billion

Former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann, found in a civil court to have raped Brittany Higgins, appeared today over allegations he raped another woman.

She will consolidate eSafety office’s actions against Elon Musk’s X Corp over its refusal to take down footage of a stabbing in a Sydney church.

The judge found that trying to continue to ban the spread of a video on X globally would have been overreach by local authorities.

Former military lawyer David McBride has been sentenced to five years and eight months for sharing classified documents with journalists.

Being pregnant, ill, young or Aboriginal are among the additional reasons judges in Victoria may be able to delay sentencing offenders to immediate imprisonment

The High Court of Australia has handed down a landmark ruling that keeps 200 immigration detainees locked up.

The ‘Ladies Lounge’ exhibit was forced to open its doors for men after a court decision in April.

Federal authorities were sued for damage to a sacred Indigenous site in the Northern Territory.

The case centres on a tweet sent by the One Nation leader telling another senator to ‘pack [her] bags and piss off back to Pakistan.’

Australia’s eSafety Commission is locked in a legal tussle with X owner Elon Musk, we explore just how much power this online content regulator has.

Both Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins lied in evidence, Justice Lee has found, but Higgins’ account of events was more believable than Lehrmann’s.

The judge said his findings were to a civil standard of proof—and not a criminal one.

The ACT has made it an offence for jurors to do their own research, and has also allowed for 11:1 findings of guilt.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs say the international ride share company ‘fought tooth and nail’ to avoid having to compensate the taxi industry for its losses.

The issue with visas has existed for more than a decade, but wasn’t rectified when several dangerous detainees were released after a High Court ruling.

AFP officers were accused of ‘enticing’ the boy and encouraging his fixation with Islamic State, but the minister says radicalisation is happening earlier.

“We’ve heard ... also from elders, from community leaders, from others that they believe they can deliver better on-country programs,” Mr. Miles said.

Despite the rush to pass emergency laws in December, no community safety or supervision orders have been applied for.

The Environmental Defenders Office may lose federal funding after a judge found it had coached Indigenous witnesses.