Australia: Informal wills – an update - Thynne & Macartney
In the case of Re Yu, the Supreme Court of Queensland recognised the validity of an electronic will created on an iPhone. Reported by Mondaq 5 hours ago.
View ArticleHarley Hicks did not kill Bendigo baby, jury told
Bendigo man Harley Hicks did not enter an Eaglehawk Road property and kill 10-month-old Zayden Veal-Whitting, the Supreme Court has heard. Reported by The Age 9 hours ago.
View ArticleAustralia: Slipping standards: the duty of a reasonably prudent employer -...
A recent decision of the WA Supreme Court demonstrates the care needed in determining liability in slip and trip cases. Reported by Mondaq 4 hours ago.
View ArticleABC management finds sorry is the hardest word
It has been a week of discreet pain for the ABC, unfolding on the 11th floor of the Supreme Court of NSW, first in court 11E on Tuesday, then down the corridor in court 11A on Wednesday. Reported by...
View ArticleSorry the hardest word for ABC
*Comment:* It has been a week of discreet pain for the ABC, unfolding at the Supreme Court of NSW. Reported by Sydney Morning Herald 16 hours ago.
View ArticleAccused Morcombe killer won't testify
Brett Peter Cowan decides not to testify in Supreme Court trial. Reported by Brisbane Times 4 hours ago.
View ArticleMorcombe murder accused will not take the stand
Brett Peter Cowan decides not to testify in Supreme Court trial. Reported by Brisbane Times 8 hours ago.
View ArticleHamster Decides: Christopher Kenny wins first defamation skirmish in Supreme...
A News Ltd columnist who was depicted having sex with a dog in the ABC's political satire program The Hamster Decides has won a preliminary skirmish in his ongoing defamation battle with the...
View ArticleHamster Decides: Chris Kenny wins first defamation skirmish in Supreme Court
A News Ltd columnist who was depicted having sex with a dog in the ABC's political satire program The Hamster Decides has won a preliminary skirmish in his ongoing defamation battle with the...
View ArticleDog day for the ABC
The ABC will not want to find itself in court 11E of the NSW Supreme Court anytime again soon. It has taken a battering on successive days in this courtroom. Reported by The Age 1 hour ago.
View ArticleMulvihill found guilty of murder
A NSW Supreme Court jury has found Paul Mulvihill guilty of murdering his former lover on Sydney's northern beaches. Reported by The Age 3 days ago.
View ArticlePaul Mulvihill found guilty of killing Rachelle Yeo
It took less than two hours for a Supreme Court jury to seal Paul Darren Mulvihill's fate. Reported by The Age 3 days ago.
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Bernard Teague to head Hazelwood mine fire inquiry
The former Supreme Court Justice who headed the Black Saturday Royal Commission will lead the independent inquiry into the month-long Hazelwood mine fire. Reported by The Age 2 days ago.
View ArticleJustice Bernard Teague to lead Hazelwood inquiry
The former Supreme Court judge who headed the Black Saturday royal commission will lead an independent inquiry into the Hazelwood mine fire, which has been burning for more than a month....
View ArticleJury retires to consider Daniel verdict
THE fate of Daniel Morcombe's accused murderer is in the hands of a Queensland Supreme Court jury. Reported by The Australian 21 hours ago.
View ArticleDaniel's pedophile killer to be sentenced
Queensland Supreme Court justice Roslyn Atkinson is expected to soon sentence the man convicted of killing schoolboy Daniel Morcombe in 2003. Reported by The Age 13 hours ago.
View ArticleCourt halts execution of gang rapists
INDIA’S Supreme Court has stayed the death sentence of two of four men convicted of the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi. Reported by The Australian 2 days ago.
View ArticleAustralia: WA Supreme Court says BOO to non commercial interpretations of...
The WA Supreme Court has bucked the recent trend of expanding the meaning of consequential loss in exclusion clauses. Reported by Mondaq 5 hours ago.
View ArticleBalmain win battle in survival battle
Balmain are hopeful an injunction granted in the NSW Supreme Court will give them the breathing space they need to nut out a deal with Rozelle Village. Reported by Sydney Morning Herald 2 hours...
View ArticleMegaupload loses bid to see more US evidence
U.S. prosecutors do not have to provide defendants in a high-profile criminal copyright case full copies of documents it references in its extradition request, New Zealand's Supreme Court ruled Friday....
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