Courts
Activist happy as claims struck out of Adani legal saga
A multinational mining company expects proceedings against an activist to go to trial even after he claimed a courtroom “win” in Brisbane.
- by Fraser Barton
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‘Night of unimaginable tragedy’: Heartache continues two years later
Lee Lovell has expressed dismay at the Queensland court system after the sentencing of a teenager involved in a home invasion that left his wife Emma dead.
- by Rex Martinich
Drunk driver killed family matriarch on her birthday
The judge heard the woman had consumed at least two bottles of wine the night before she hit a pedestrian and continued to drive for 160 metres with three flat tyres.
- by Rex Martinich
Top Brisbane music venue in battle against $1.5 billion tower development
One of Brisbane’s top music venues is appealing Brisbane City Council’s approval of a $1.5 billion Newstead project, warning its future residents could inundate them with noise complaints.
- by Cameron Atfield
Life term for ‘depraved and violent’ childcare rapist
One of Australia’s worst paedophiles has been jailed for sex offences he committed over 19 years in childcare centres. Warning: distressing content.
- by Rex Martinich
‘True horror’: Push for childcare rapist to be jailed for life
Ashley Paul Griffith has pleaded guilty to 307 offences, including sexual abuse and making child exploitation material, against nearly 70 victims beginning in 2003.
- by Rex Martinich
Mother of NRL star Payne Haas ordered to stand trial over fatal crash
The mother of Broncos and NSW State of Origin star Payne Haas has been ordered to stand trial over a car crash that killed three people in the Gold Coast hinterland.
- by Rex Martinich
Wife recorded murder fears hours before death
Just hours before a woman was found dead near a tractor, she recorded a video saying she feared her husband would kill her, a court has heard.
- by Rex Martinich
Alleged rape case involving prominent Brisbane chef dropped
Kelvin Zachary Andrews, who was formerly the head chef at SK Steak and Oyster at the Calile Hotel, had been accused of rape last year.
- by Cloe Read
Torture charges dropped in case of Channel Seven contestants
The Queensland couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are facing dozens of charges between them.
- by Cloe Read
Man accused of woman’s fatal brain injury denied bail
A man set to face prosecution following a true-crime podcast and inquest into a woman’s death has been denied bail over his “extremely high risk” of interfering with a witness.
- by Rex Martinich