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A supporter who spat towards Jarryd Hayne's rape victim will be awarded nominal defamation damages with a judge finding he engaged in "generally disgraceful behaviour" after the former league star was sentenced.

It's the start of historic hearings into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state.

In March 2020, she pressured students under her supervision to help her steal PPE from a hospital.

A man accused of initiating the bashing of 16-year-old Jason Galleghan was a "father figure" to the group of teens he allegedly told to finish Jason off.

The distraught family of a 25-year-old contractor killed in a forklift rollover hopes employers will think twice before taking potentially deadly chances.

Prosecutors allege the pair murdered their child in the small rural town of Yugar, about 30km northwest of Brisbane.

"Get the f---away from the car or I'll kill you," Walker said to Farooq before speeding off in the stolen vehicle.

A judge has found the former president guilty of lying about his wealth for years to build his real estate empire.

The 42-year-old man was found in an apartment block on Drummond Street in Carlton, Victoria, with life-threatening injuries on January 17.

The former president's first criminal trial begins in just 39 days.

Elders at a spiritual health retreat said a man who was suffering intense pain and could not walk was "going through the process of kambo" before he died.

An in-house lawyer for Ten says a significant reason for her approval of Wilkinson's Logies speech was a failure of prosecutors to raise concerns.

"She may not have pulled the trigger, but this never would have happened it if it weren’t for her".

A loving mother was enjoying life with a new partner when she was stabbed to death by her ex-husband on Christmas Day in front of her two children.

The reader explained why she was the only person who remained seated when the man died after consuming psychedelics and a frog-based poison.

Edge tracked the man to a nearby stairwell, where he was found with a bag full of alleged stolen goods.

The former US marine allegedly tied up Kelly Wilkinson before setting her alight at her Gold Coast home in 2021.

It comes after a complaint was made against him by Victoria's top prosecutor.

Nine customers with faulty vehicles were refused a refund or replacement car despite multiple repair attempts failing.

Former ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold has launched a legal challenge against an inquiry into the actions of police and prosecutors involved in the case.

Network Ten is set to pay at least some of journalist Lisa Wilkinson's legal costs for Bruce Lehrmann's defamation suit against her and the broadcaster.

He was the first person to be charged under federal laws created in 2018.

Rohan and two co-offenders were accused of picking up two girls, aged 11 and 12, supplying them with drugs and alcohol, and then sexually assaulting them.

A man has been charged after an incident on the Princes Street Bridge in Melbourne's CBD on Friday night.

The speech led to Wilkinson being widely condemned in the media after the Lehrmann trial was delayed as a result.

Allegations Ben Roberts-Smith dragged a prisoner with a prosthetic leg outside an Afghan compound before machine-gunning him were backed up by numerous witnesses, a court has heard.

A trial will hear the woman allege the former Broncos star sexually assaulted her in a Brisbane bar - a claim he has denied.

A nurse who was accused of raping a patient during a bed bath, while he was recovering from surgery in a private hospital, has been found not guilty on all charges.

Anthony Andolfo, 30, has today been sentenced to seven days in jail over last week's stunt.

Glenn Logan admitted to publishing video of Lehrman's high-profile defamation trial but has argued he was unaware it was prohibited to do so.

Shane Drumgold is taking legal action over damning findings made against him in relation to the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann.

Lawyers for the former US president insist he is immune from prosecution.

An appeals judge said the decision was made solely on the basis that the law in force at the time did not apply to "conduct committed by a female upon a male".

Soldiers who gave evidence to support claims Ben Roberts-Smith was involved in two unlawful killings in Afghanistan should be believed, a court has heard.

A woman who arranged to have a teenage boy engage in sex work has avoided prison.

The girls, aged as young as 11, were captured on video in an alleged fight with adults as much as four times their age.

"It's not a question of 'if' but 'when' you'll be caught," Government Services Minister Bill Shorten has warned.

A passenger allegedly emerged from the car armed with a knife after the car was forcibly stopped. 

Prince Harry will receive a "substantial" payout after settling the remaining parts of his phone-hacking case against the publisher Mirror Group Newspapers.

Police confirmed the 30-year-old woman was taken to St Vincent's hospital in a serious but stable condition.

An investigation by Victoria's child employment watchdog uncovered multiple incidents.

Rudy Guede has been put under "special surveillance".

Rugby star Kurtley Beale has been found not guilty of raping a woman or sexually touching her in a toilet cubicle during a night out at a Sydney pub in 2022.

The funeral home owners took payments from families that were meant for cremations and burials and instead bought vehicles, crypto along with a lavish dinner.

Mr Morecroft said outside court that the result was "unbelievable".

Major crime detectives attended the scene, searched for evidence and spoke to witnesses yesterday.

A searing report found the US president wilfully disclosed classified information but charges are not warranted.

Catherine Herring, who has filed for divorce, said their one-year-old daughter was born about 10 weeks premature, has developmental delays and attends therapy eight times a week.

In more than two hours of arguments, both conservative and liberal justices raised questions of whether Trump can be disqualified.

The father of a hit-and-run victim has forgiven the driver who left his daughter a paraplegic.