Courts news headlines

A 15-year-old boy accused of firing multiple gunshots at his former school is likely to be charged with endangering the lives of others.

Investigators believe the alleged crime ring raked in $1.2 million. 

A university lecturer who stabbed his wife to death after a heated argument about their son's kindergarten arrangements will spend up to 24 years behind bars.

Two men allegedly threatened the owner of Rhia Jewellers Calamvale with a gun before taking $200,000 in jewellery from the family-owned store on May 22.

A civil case against former principal Malka Leifer and the Adass Israel School has been settled.

Chris Dawson's first interaction with a student he's accused of having an unlawful sexual relationship with was to return a topless photo of her.

The former Liberal staffer will not receive any damages after settling his defamation case over News Corp's coverage of Brittany Higgins' rape allegations.

Ralph Yarl — a Black teenager who was shot in the head and arm last month after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell — walked at a brain injury awareness event Monday in his first major public appearance since the shooting.

An assault charge has been quietly dropped against a man arrested after a violent confrontation between protesters at a speaking venue for NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham.

The man had fallen behind in rent after his catering business hit hard times, causing a rift with the unit owner.

Balin Stewart was aged 16 when his heart was pierced by a 12 centimetre steak knife blade on January 20 last year outside his family's home in the Sunshine Coast suburb of Buddina.

A trial of convicted wife-killer, former teacher and rugby league player Chris Dawson will begin examining his alleged relationship with one of his students.

The man who allegedly held a firearms store at gunpoint has been arrested and charged by Western Australian police.

The trial is scheduled for January to determine whether The Sun carried out unlawful information gathering that allegedly included tapping the actor's landline, bugging his car and breaking into his home.

Osman El-Houli told police a man called "The Professor" hired him for $10,000 to drive almost 3000km and collect bags of cash.

The 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, briefly appeared in the Perth Children's Court on Friday via video link.

The death of a young boy with special needs, who choked on a nectarine stone while at school, would have been prevented had he been better supervised.

A Puffing Billy volunteer who sexually abused two young train enthusiasts has been sentenced to prison time but is unlikely to serve a day.

A man who filmed himself raping a woman has been jailed for at least five years after his ex-wife found the tape.

The mother of Brian Laundrie, the man who killed his fiancée, Gabby Petito, and later himself in 2021, wrote to her son saying she would help him 'dispose of a body' or 'bake a cake with a file in it' to help him in jail.

Stewart Rhodes has been jailed for 18 years - the longest sentence handed down yet for involvement in US Capitol riots - with a judge saying his actions amounted to domestic terrorism.

An officer allegedly asked great grandmother Clare Nowland to "stop" several times during negotiations with her to drop a steak knife before saying "bugger it" as he was deploying his Taser.

Almost 11 months after his lengthy trial, Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith will soon learn whether his defamation case over war crimes reports has been successful.

A couple accused of keeping a woman as a slave in their Melbourne home have faced court.

Former NRL rising star Manase Fainu is challenging a jury's verdict that he stabbed a church youth leader outside a Mormon charity event in Sydney.

Ali Jaafar, 63, was sentenced to five years in prison while his 29-year-old son Yousef Jaafar was sentenced to four years and two months in prison.

Convicted paedophile and disgraced former entertainer Rolf Harris was cremated at a small funeral service and his death was kept a secret for almost a fortnight.

The 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy was allegedly chased down and attacked with a metal pole as he walked home from school with friends in Perth last year.

A man and a woman have been arrested in relation to the disappearance of Tony Rowe, who was last seen at a pub in the Northern Territory in May last year.

The case against a Sydney jeweller accused of staging an armed robbery at his own store for a fraudulent insurance claim is going to "fall apart" when police dig into it, his lawyer says.

Lawyers for a group of workers who cleaned up a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee led to a slew of illnesses, including fatal cancers, have reached a settlement with the contractor who organised the cleanup

The man allegedly stuffed an ibis in his backpack and rode a stolen bike to his unit in Sydney's eastern suburbs before decapitating the bird and hanging it up on Tuesday.

Trump appeared by video conference at a pretrial hearing, as a Judge advised him to cancel all other obligations for the duration of the trial.

Evan Gershkovich, a 31-year-old American citizen, was ordered held until August 30. He had been arrested in March on espionage charges on a reporting trip in Russia.

A High Court judge rejected the Duke of Sussex's assertion that the British government exceeded its authority when it denied him the right to hire police to provide security in the UK.

An engineering firm is awaiting sentence after it failed to supervise a worker who was killed dismantling a Victoriancheese factory.

The boy was also accompanied by two others during the alleged break-in, Police say.

Simon William Fleming was dressed in black combat fatigues, armed with a rifle and a gel blaster, pretending a silver briefcase was a bomb.

Bryan Kohberger's silence led to judge entering not guilty pleas on his behalf ahead of a trial in which he could face the death penalty.

CCTV shows the moment Christie-Lee Kennedy ploughing into her husband David Larkin and his mistress Zowie Noring.

Loved ones of a woman who killed her violent and controlling husband with poisoned biscuits have pleaded with a judge to show her mercy.

The pair were dramatically arrested at a Serbian hotel in January 2018 following a globe-trotting undercover police operation.

Workers building one of Sydney's tollway tunnels do not know whether they were exposed to potentially deadly silicosis because of a lack of monitoring, a union has claimed.

Constable Ryan Barlow swept the legs out from under a 16-year-old during an arrest in Sydney in 2022, knocking him unconscious.

A charge of using a phone while driving against One Nation MP Mark Latham has been withdrawn.

The settlement could be valued at $200 million and covers about 9 million 2011-2022 model year Hyundai and Kia vehicles in the US, the companies said.

The 51-year-old, who was preparing to fight the seven charges at trial, will be sentenced for a further 35 breaches next month.

The mother of a murdered nursing student says she is "incandescent with rage" that her daughter's body was discarded like "rubbish" in South Australia's Flinders Ranges.

A mother of two who stole the identity of the pilot killed in the Sea World helicopter tragedy in a bid to dodge a traffic ticket has had her fine doubled in court.

The Federal Court ordered AMP Life and AMP Financial Planning to pay fines of $18 million and $6 million respectively after they admitted to the "unconscionable conduct".