Courts
‘Blatant’ violation: Donald Trump fined $US10,000 for violating gag order
Justice Arthur Engoron last week fined Trump $US5000 after finding that he had not taken down a post disparaging the judge’s law clerk.
- by Jack Queen and Luc Cohen
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Judge ticks off Amorosi mother’s lawyer over ‘outrageous’ late move
As the bitter family feud wound up in the Supreme Court, lawyers for the mother of singer Vanessa Amorosi delivered one last curveball.
- by Karl Quinn
Skipper pleads not guilty over fatal Mandurah estuary boat crash
The man allegedly responsible for killing two women when the boat he was navigating crashed in the Mandurah Estuary has pleaded not guilty to two charges of manslaughter.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Perth woman denies attempting to murder husband by poisoning water
Bozena Knapinski, 62, has been accused of trying to murder her husband after he suspected she was slowly poisoning him and set up a covert operation to catch her.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Coronavirus pandemic
Carnival misled passengers over safety of Ruby Princess cruise: court
Retired nurse Susan Karpik sued the cruise ship company over the voyage at the start of the pandemic, on which her husband most likely contracted COVID and almost died.
- by Michaela Whitbourn and Georgina Mitchell
ABC agrees to pay indemnity costs to Heston Russell
The former special forces soldier won his defamation case against the broadcaster over reports suggesting he was involved in killing an Afghan prisoner.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
Perth woman who killed her grandma by swapping pills has appeal thrown out
Alaine Sturniolo was given a life sentence in 2021 after a jury found her guilty of murdering her grandma by swapping her medication with morphine.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
‘Monster in my closet’: Perth man jailed 31 years after knifepoint rape of single mum
The 48-year-old was extradited to Perth from Queensland to face historic rape charges after DNA evidence linked him to the 1992 crime.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt and Ezra Holt
‘He’s had kids punching him’: Lawyer asks for teen on murder charge to be released
Rebecca Collard, 48, died after she was deliberately run over by a 17-year-old boy, police allege.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Judge seeks more immunity in false imprisonment appeal
A judge claims a court was wrong to find that judicial immunity did not shield him from being sued by a man left traumatised after being wrongfully jailed during divorce proceedings.
- by Miklos Bolza
Vanessa Amorosi’s mother accused of ‘inventing’ pact over family home
There were no written property agreements between the California-based singer and her mother because the pair trusted each other, a civil trial has been told.
- by Karl Quinn