Courts

The mushroom murder case brought frenzied public attention to deep and private pain. But do we allow Patterson's notoriety to overshadow the memory of those she killed, or can we resist and honour the victim's legacies instead?

A WA judge finds police acted unlawfully in detaining a man in July 2023, leading to him being allowed to go free despite being found to be in possession of methylamphetamine. 

An 18-year-old was charged in May over alleged threats to use explosives and poisons to target a school and public events in Adelaide.

A legal battle between NSW Police and organisers of an anti-corruption rally known appears to have been avoided, after a plan to march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge was dropped.

Erin Patterson has been given a chance to one day walk free from prison, as a judge ordered her to serve at least 33 years behind bars for serving her relatives a poisonous beef Wellington.

From lawyers "maximising fees" to a family report writer's warning that "your case is a murder-suicide waiting to happen", these parents share allegations of their experience in the Family Court of Australia.

Erin Patterson is sentenced to life in prison with 33 years non-parole, for murdering three in-laws — and attempting to murder a fourth — by lacing their beef Wellingtons with poisonous death cap mushrooms in 2023.

Now that Matt Wright has been found guilty on two counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice, we can shed light on other legal matters surrounding the celebrity crocodile wrangler.

The trial of celebrity crocodile wrangler Matt Wright unearthed a culture of helicopter maintenance and safety breaches by his company, which some say have been ongoing in Australia's north for decades.

Freed after 20 years by medical experts and legal scholars, Kathleen Folbigg's biggest advocate is a friend who has been there through it all. 

When Andrew Burow went missing from his Brisbane unit, it sparked an investigation full of twists and turns.

Matt Wright leaving the NT Supreme Court as media asks questions.

The trial of celebrity crocodile wrangler Matt Wright unearthed a culture of helicopter maintenance and safety breaches by his company, which some say have been ongoing in Australia's north for decades.

A mining contractor has been fined following the death of a driller killed by falling rocks at an underground mine in Western Australia's Goldfields nearly three years ago.

A mother and son have been cleared of kidnap charges after they collected two of the woman's younger teenage sons as they walked to school and took them interstate, away from their father.

The event has been put together by an umbrella group known as Australia Unites Against Government Corruption with links to anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists and sovereign citizens.

A court orders ex-footballer and sports presenter Warren Tredrea to pay $149,000 to cover legal costs that were accumulated by his former employer, Channel Nine, during part of the long-running court battle between the parties.

The family of Dee Annear, a woman murdered by her partner in a remote forest cabin on the NSW Mid North Coast, say the lies of her killer will never be forgotten.

The victim of the first inmate to be granted assisted dying in NSW has criticised the decision, claiming victims should be considered.

Canberra's only prison breached the human rights of a former Aboriginal detainee by illegally strip-searching her while she was held in remand there in 2021, the ACT Supreme Court has found.