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- Pope meets sex abuse victims: Vatican
- 21 Jul 2008
- Pope Benedict XVI met victims of clergy child sex abuse this morning as his Australian visit entered its final hour.
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- NZ a 'giant transit lounge' to Australia
- 21 Jul 2008
- New Zealand has been described as a "giant transit lounge" after an analysis showed many of its immigrants ended up moving to Australia.
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- Shell shock: abalone poacher jailed
- 21 Jul 2008
- A 61-year-old man from the NSW south coast has been jailed for four months and fined $900 for poaching abalone
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- Ex-husband charged over Lisa's murder
- 6 Jul 2008
- International fugitive Richard Giardina has been arrested by police at Sydney Airport and charged with the murder of his former wife.
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- Keddies client charged for saying thanks
- 1 Jul 2008
- A SENIOR solicitor with Keddies Lawyers charged three clients from the same family almost $600 to travel less than two kilometres between Redfern and the CBD for a conference.
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- Keddies' chief fined $10,000
- 25 Jun 2008
- The managing partner of the largest specialised personal injury law firm in NSW has been found guilty of professional misconduct and fined $10,000.
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- Heiress dog cut down to her last $2 million
- 17 Jun 2008
- Trouble, a white Maltese that inherited $US12 million ($A12.8 million) from late US hotel billionaire Leona Helmsley, will have to get by on a little less, after a judge gave $US10 million of the bequest to charity and two Helmsley grandchildren.
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- Angry clients accuse barristers over fees
- 14 Jun 2008
- TWO barristers regularly briefed by Keddies Lawyers have been caught up in accusations of overcharging that have been levelled against the personal injuries firm.
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- Top law firm under fire in compo dispute
- 13 Jun 2008
- THE state's largest specialised personal injury law firm is battling allegations of professional misconduct, including gross overcharging and falsifying documents as well as defamation, during an ongoing and bitter dispute with some former staff.
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- The day police just went too far
- 12 Jun 2008
- A man who challenged the right of police to remain in his home - only to be sprayed with capsicum spray, handcuffed and locked in a cell wearing only boxer shorts - has won his case in the High Court.
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- 'Cheese ball sparked deadly road rage'
- 11 Jun 2008
- The woman who allegedly hit and killed Eli Westlake on Saturday morning was under the influence of a cocktail of legal and illegal drugs, as well as two bottles of wine, police say.
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- The game's up: jurors playing Sudoku abort trial
- 11 Jun 2008
- AFTER 105 witnesses and three months of evidence, a drug trial costing $1 million was aborted yesterday when it emerged that jurors had been playing Sudoku since the trial's second week.
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- Teacher faces 'upskirting' charges
- 10 Jun 2008
- A high school teacher accused of filming up the skirts of schoolgirls is facing court, charged with two acts of indecency and the making and possession of child pornography.
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- Underbelly lawyer cleared
- 10 Jun 2008
- Gangland solicitor Zarah Garde-Wilson has been cleared of four charges of giving false evidence to the Australian Crime Commission.
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- Man sues hotel over too many Germans...Mr Fawlty?
- 3 Jun 2008
- A British holidaymaker was awarded compensation by a court because there were too many German tourists at the hotel he booked in Greece, newspapers reported Saturday.
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- Couple ran $1m-a-week drug ring from suburban home
- 3 Jun 2008
- A couple ran a cocaine smuggling ring from their fortress-like home in New Jersey and amassed so many luxury goods that the wife needed photos to keep track of her 100 pairs of Prada shoes, authorities say.
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- 'Taken by surprise'
- 3 Jun 2008
- A top criminal investigator was upset and had been "taken by surprise" after being charged over an alleged multi-million dollar international drug syndicate, his lawyer said today.
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- Jury's verdict is a win at last for Team Corby
- 30 May 2008
- MERCEDES CORBY won her defamation case against Channel Seven last night, a jury finding that a total of 28 defamatory meanings had been conveyed in three Today Tonight programs and a television news story in February last year.
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- Stud couple hogtied, killed and stuffed in barrels, court told
- 19 May 2008
- A couple who ran a horse stud on the NSW south coast were hogtied, gagged and killed before their bodies were placed in 44-gallon drums and set alight, a Wollongong jury has heard.
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- Judges abandon wigs for 'Star Trek' look
- 14 May 2008
- British judges abandoned a 300-year-old tradition of wearing horsehair wigs to a chorus of mockery from fashion critics and traditionalists, who say the new robes have turned them into Star Trek look-a-likes.
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- Battle of wills: 'greedy children' claim
- 12 May 2008
- A woman accused of murdering her de facto husband with a popular euthanasia drug told his daughter she did not want to lose her share of the estate to the "greedy children", a Sydney court has been told.
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- New laws to stop pests in the courts
- 11 May 2008
- NSW State cabinet has approved new laws making it easier for judges to ban vexatious litigants from the legal system.
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- Toddler's body found in mine shaft
- 9 May 2008
- A body believed to be that of missing three-year-old Perth boy Imran Zilic has been found in a mineshaft in South Australia, police say.
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- 'I'm no cyclist hater'
- 9 May 2008
- The driver at the centre of an alleged Sydney road rage incident says he is no "cyclist hater" and he did not deliberately pull up in front of a pack of professional cyclists.
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- Prison priest jailed for sex with inmates
- 6 May 2008
- An American Catholic priest who had sex with two inmates while working as a chaplain at a women's prison was sentenced on Monday to two years in federal prison.
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- Man arrested after police find 300 dead cats
- 6 May 2008
- A California man has been arrested after police say they found about 300 dead cats stuffed into freezers in his house.
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- Wayne Carey charged with police assault
- 6 May 2008
- Fallen footballer Wayne Carey will face charges of assaulting police and resisting arrest over an incident at his Port Melbourne apartment in January,2008
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- Lawyers fail to boost Haneef inquiry
- 30 Apr 2008
- Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef have failed in a bid for a judicial inquiry into the detention of the Indian doctor on terrorism charges to seek the powers of a royal commission.
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- AFL star accused of bid to cheat uni of $10m
- 28 Apr 2008
- A former Australian rules football star has pleaded not guilty to 31 charges over an alleged elaborate conspiracy to defraud Victoria University of more than $10 million.
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- NSW Crown Prosecutor missing on bush trip over long weekend
- 28 Apr 2008
- A Crown prosecutor, Alex Clout, has gone missing during a four-wheel-drive trip to Barrington Tops north of Newcastle.
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- US state considers bill banning ornamental testicles
- 28 Apr 2008
- They're proudly displayed by any self-respecting bull, but dangling big metal ones on the back end of a truck could be banned in the US state of Florida.
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- Top lawyer being probed for misconduct
- 28 Apr 2008
- A PROMINENT ALP-linked solicitor who chairs Victoria Legal Aid is under investigation over allegations of professional misconduct and failing to inform a client of his work for the leader of a notorious religious sect.
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- Father 'locks up daughter for 24 years'
- 28 Apr 2008
- Austrian police have arrested a 73-year-old man accused of locking his daughter in his cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children with her.
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- Gambler who lost $30m sues casino
- 12 Feb 2008
- JAMES PACKER was aware of a plan to lure a chronic gambler back to Melbourne's Crown Casino and personally authorised several large cash payments to him, according to legal documents lodged in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
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- Handshake sends lawyer to jail
- 11 Feb 2008
- A USA lawyer has been charged with assault for shaking a federal prosecutor's hand so hard, authorities said, that it injured her shoulder.
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- 'Disgusted' his girlfriend once a man
- 7 Feb 2008
- A man has told a Sydney court he was "disgusted and disturbed" after being told by police while in custody that his girlfriend had once been a man.
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- Go on, waste your time in court
- 7 Feb 2008
- I have just come back from jury service. What a stupid, trivial case we witnessed
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- Courts in online revolution
- 3 Feb 2008
- COURT cases will be conducted live on the internet in NSW from next week.
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- Commission clears Haneef lawyer
- 1 Feb 2008
- Stephen Keim, barrister to former terrorism suspect Dr Mohammed Haneef, has been cleared of professional misconduct by Queensland's Legal Services Commissioner for releasing a transcript of Dr Haneef's interview with the Australian Federal Police.
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- Father may accept $1m from daughter's killer
- 1 Feb 2008
- LONDON: An Australian has reportedly travelled to Japan, where he is considering taking a possible "condolence" payment from the businessman convicted of raping and killing his daughter.
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- UK victim wins right to sue Lotto rapist in English law lords case
- 31 Jan 2008
- A retired teacher in England today won a landmark law lords ruling giving her the right to claim compensation from a serial rapist who won £7m on the national lottery.
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- Robbers tie up lawyer, ransack office
- 26 Jan 2008
- HE IS a lawyer, a race-car owner and runs home loan and online divorce businesses.
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- Judge considers jail for 'rock-throwing' lies
- 24 Jan 2008
- THREE youths who lied to police after another was seriously injured by a rock are unlikely to escape without punishment, despite having one of the charges against them dropped.
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- Divorce season
- 13 Jan 2008
- APPOINTMENTS with divorce lawyers are soaring, triggered by the stresses and strains of the Christmas break. Some firms report a doubling in consultations during January compared with other months.
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- Unwitting incest a 'tragedy'
- 12 Jan 2008
- Twins who were separated at birth and raised by different families met later and married but were forced to break up when they discovered their true identities, a British legislator said on Friday.
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- Record payout for refugee who sewed lips
- 12 Jan 2008
- THE Iranian who came to symbolise the debate over asylum seekers during the Howard government era has been awarded compensation of more than $800,000, double previous payouts.
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- Newlyweds caught street racing
- 30 Dec 2007
- A couple of newlyweds had their car seized on the way home from church following a street racing incident in western Sydney, police say.
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- Gold price set to test $US1000 in 2008
- 27 Dec 2007
- THE price of gold is set to remain high in 2008, putting it on track to break $US1,000 an ounce for the first time, as the yellow metal continues to offer investors a safe haven from volatile financial markets and supply remains tight.
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- Rudd 'won't interfere' with Pakistan tour
- 27 Dec 2007
- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he's not inclined to intervene to stop the Australian cricket team's planned tour of Pakistan
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- Murder retrial ordered after jury question goes unnoticed by judge
- 27 Dec 2007
- THE failure of a judge to notice a question from a jury in a murder trial will lead to an expensive retrial for three men accused over a shooting in a Cabramatta billiards hall in January 2004.
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- Einfeld sent for trial
- 13 Dec 2007
- Former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld will stand trial next year on 13 charges, including perjury and perverting the course of justice, over a series of speeding cases he allegedly tried to dodge through deceit.
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- Attack on rape case judge condemned
- 12 Dec 2007
- Personal attacks on a Queensland judge who decided not to impose prison sentences on nine males who pleaded guilty to the pack rape of a 10-year-old girl are intolerable, the Queensland Law Society says.
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- GP loses underage sex appeal
- 12 Dec 2007
- A doctor convicted of having sex with an underage girl he thought to be 17 years old has had his appeal dismissed by the High Court.
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- Prosecutor in child rape case stood aside
- 12 Dec 2007
- THE PROSECUTOR at the centre of the case in which six attackers escaped jail time for the gang rape of a 10-year-old on Cape York has been stood aside, pending an investigation.
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- Einfeld case makes meal of feeding and speeding
- 12 Dec 2007
- Sky News presenter John Mangos has told a Sydney court he chatted to Marcus Einfeld at a northern beaches restaurant on the day the former judge's car was caught speeding.
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- Einfeld witness says memory imperfect
- 11 Dec 2007
- A woman who was with former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld in his car the day it was booked speeding says her memory of events is "imperfect".
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- Einfeld 'lied under oath'
- 10 Dec 2007
- Former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld lied under oath about a traffic infringement as he was in danger of losing his driver's licence, his District Court committal hearing has heard.
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- New development in gang torture case
- 9 Dec 2007
- A new development has come to light in the case of an abducted man found with his ears cut off in bushland on the Gold Coast hinterland, police say
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- Aussie refuses plea in snowball attack
- 9 Dec 2007
- An Australian man facing assault charges for throwing a snowball at a co-worker refused a plea bargain and instead insisted on a trial to clear his name, his mother said.
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- Insane snowball trial a waste of time: lawyer
- 7 Dec 2007
- An Australian student has gone on trial in Colorado in the United States, charged with assault for hitting a woman with a snowball.
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- Police consider dropping Chaser charge
- 5 Dec 2007
- Police may drop APEC security breach charges against the satirical team from ABC TV's The Chaser's War on Everything.
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- Sperm donor ordered to pay lesbian couple
- 5 Dec 2007
- A British firefighter who donated his sperm so a lesbian couple could have two babies is being forced to pay thousands of pounds in child support.
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- $9m crash payout stopped
- 4 Dec 2007
- A driver who became a quadriplegic after an accident in central Queensland has had her damages award of almost $9 million overturned in the NSW Court of Appeal.
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- Bondi pub fighter gets periodic detention
- 30 Nov 2007
- A 23-year-old labourer was sentenced to 16 months periodic detention for his role in a fight with an Irish backpacker that left the tourist with permanent brain damage.
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- Crash victim wins $9m
- 30 Nov 2007
- A NSW steel worker has been awarded more than $9.4 million damages for a workplace accident that left him a quadriplegic.
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- Man marries dog
- 14 Nov 2007
- A man in southern India has married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony in a bid to atone for stoning two dogs to death, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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- Judge honoured for sticking up for goldfish
- 14 Nov 2007
- A Brisbane District Court judge has been awarded a "Compassionate judge award" for publicly denouncing a man who flushed two goldfish down the toilet during a burglary at a woman's home.
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- We'll keep track of those fined: Scipione
- 24 Oct 2007
- NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione has denied that criminals who receive new on-the-spot fines will remain "cleanskins", saying a register will be kept of people who receive the infringement notices.
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- Bodies in drums: not guilty plea
- 24 Oct 2007
- A jury of six men and six women will decide the guilt of a man charged with murdering a couple on the NSW South Coast.
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- Council agrees to huge payout
- 23 Oct 2007
- Sydney's Randwick City Council has agreed to pay $8 million in compensation to a man left paralysed by a Christmas day cliff dive if found liable.
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- Sex victims saved from court torment
- 7 Oct 2007
- BARRISTERS will be refused permission to cross-examine children and sexual assault victims under an Australian-first law to be brought in by the NSW Government.
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- Higher penalties for pedophiles, rock throwers
- 25 Sep 2007
- Pedophiles who try to groom children for sex face 10 years in jail and rock throwers who cause grievous bodily harm will be jailed for at least seven years under new penalties for serious offences introduced in NSW Parliament today.
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- Prime suspect accused of bugging ex's phone
- 25 Sep 2007
- Perth lawyers should shut up and let police get on with catching the killer of Supreme Court registrar Corryn Rayney, Western Australia's Attorney General Jim McGinty says.
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- 'Stop suing over babies'
- 25 Sep 2007
- The ACT risks becoming a litigation tourist destination if the law is not changed to prevent people from suing over the birth of healthy babies, the Australian Medical Association says.
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- Husband quizzed over bootscooting registrar murder
- 20 Sep 2007
- The lawyer husband of slain West Australian Supreme Court registrar Corryn Rayney was to be taken to major crime headquarters in Perth today to help police with inquiries into her murder.
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- Speed offenders snap
- 16 Sep 2007
- NEARLY 5000 motorists want to join a class action lawsuit to overturn speeding fines handed out through a set of new speed cameras in Sydney's south.
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- Execs plead not guilty to HIH $30m scam
- 14 Sep 2007
- Two former business executives have pleaded not guilty to fraud charges over an alleged $30 million accounting scam linked to the collapse of insurance giant HIH.
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- Your Honour's wife's honour's restored after finger-biting fracas
- 14 Sep 2007
- Convicted at the age of 62 over biting a policeman's finger and a violent struggle after three attempts at a random breath test, a District Court judge's wife had her previous good reputation reinstated today after a judge dismissed two charges and quashed her $900 fine.
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- APEC's surprise guest - Mr bin Laden of Canada
- 7 Sep 2007
- IF ONLY the police had stopped to read the fine print on the "APEC 2007 Official Vehicle" sticker......"This vehicle belongs to a member of The Chaser's War on Everything.
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- Sydney voted best city
- 5 Sep 2007
- Sydney might seem more like a security fortress than an ideal holiday destination as APEC rolls into town, but travellers have voted it the best city in the world.
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- Peeping Tom sues police to get porn back
- 5 Sep 2007
- A man recently released from jail in California after being convicted of secretly videotaping a woman and a teenage girl has sued a Marin County police department for the return of a massive porn collection taken during the investigation.
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- Sleeping judge: drug appeals fail
- 5 Sep 2007
- Two men convicted by a judge who was accused of sleeping during their drug trial have failed to get their convictions overturned.
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- Mother's deadly choice to run from flames
- 28 Aug 2007
- The mother of four must have agonised as the wall of flames swept through the heavily forested mountain toward her holiday home in southern Greece - should she flee the approaching fire or not?
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- Tycoon's last wish: $4 million gift to famous Art Gallery
- 28 Aug 2007
- One of Sydney's wealthiest families has pledged a $4 million donation to the Art Gallery of NSW - the largest single cash donation in its history.
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- Baby killed by pet husky
- 28 Aug 2007
- A two-week-old baby has been fatally mauled in her cot by the family's husky overnight, Western Australian police say.
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- Mangos to be called in Einfeld case
- 15 Aug 2007
- Media personality John Mangos will be called to give evidence against former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld in his high profile traffic fine case.
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- US judge presses $64m suit over pants
- 15 Aug 2007
- A US judge appealed his $US54 million ($A64.24 million) lawsuit on Tuesday against the dry-cleaning shop that misplaced his trousers, shrugging off legal setbacks and international ridicule.
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- Highway robbery: cabbies stung twice over
- 7 Aug 2007
- FOR a Sydney cabbie, being cheated of a fare and given a bit of lip is not out of the ordinary. But if they wish to watch their own security camera footage to get a good look at offenders after they've bolted, they face an added sting.
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- Police arrest blind man driving car
- 7 Aug 2007
- Police in the Baltic state of Estonia stopped a man who was driving erratically at the weekend, only to find he was blind.
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- Three lawyers caught out in prison purge
- 5 Aug 2007
- THREE lawyers are among 467 visitors banned from NSW jails after a crackdown uncovered attempts to smuggle in weapons ranging from tomahawks and carving knives to machetes as well as mobile phones and other contraband.
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- Family of policeman killed slams 'gutless' DPP
- 3 Aug 2007
- The family of a policeman killed in the line of duty says it is "bitterly disappointed" that the Director of Public Prosecutions has accepted manslaughter pleas from two of his killers.
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- Family of policeman killed slams 'gutless' DPP
- 3 Aug 2007
- The family of a policeman killed in the line of duty says it is "bitterly disappointed" that the Director of Public Prosecutions has accepted manslaughter pleas from two of his killers.
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- Man 'killed parents over cat remarks'
- 3 Aug 2007
- A man who specialised in family conflict killed his parents with an axe when they laughed at him over the death of his cat, a court has heard.
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- eBay sale is a sale, court rules
- 3 Aug 2007
- There will be no more weasling out of eBay sales after a judge today ruled against a man who has been refusing to hand over a $250,000 vintage plane he sold on the online auction site.
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- Barrister admits Haneef leak
- 18 Jul 2007
- The barrister representing Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef has admitted leaking restricted police documents to the media.
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- Judges ready to deliver verdict on calling it a bad horsehair day
- 16 Jul 2007
- NSW Supreme Court judges have agreed to vote in the next few weeks on whether their use of the horsehair wigs should be scrapped in civil matters. District Court judges are expected to follow with their own vote.
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- Grounded girl's revenge plot
- 11 Jul 2007
- A 15 year-old schoolgirl hatched a plot to kill her parents because they grounded her and forced her to go horse-riding "when she didn't want to", a court has heard.
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- 'Pervert's mates' win $480,000 from newspaper
- 7 Jul 2007
- IN A startling twist to the story of the disgraced public prosecutor Patrick Power, 16 of his influential colleagues and friends have won $480,000 from The Daily Telegraph in settlement of a defamation action.
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- Armless mother puts boot into McDonald's
- 4 Jul 2007
- A woman born with a condition that resulted in underdeveloped hands and arms claims employees at a McDonald's in the Illinois town of Rockford refused to serve her when she wanted to use her foot to collect the bags of food at a takeout window.
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- Judge out of pocket after losing $64m pants suit
- 26 Jun 2007
- A judge in the US capital lost his $US54 million ($64 million) lawsuit today against a dry cleaner over a pair of misplaced trousers in a case that became a symbol of the lawsuit-happy US legal system.
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- Judge sues for $64.4 million
- 14 Jun 2007
- judge who sued his dry cleaning shop for $US54 million ($64.4 million) over a lost pair of trousers said as the trial wrapped up on Wednesday that he would use any winnings he might get to encourage others to follow suit
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- High Court rules on damning restaurant review
- 14 Jun 2007
- The High Court today ruled a newspaper review defamed a Sydney restaurant by saying it sold bad food and provided poor service.
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- Good Samaritan dies in dog attack
- 14 Jun 2007
- A "lovely lady" who kept 14 dogs as pets has died after being found with bite wounds over much of her body at her property in Sydney's north-west.
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- Quadriplegic negligence case thrown out
- 25 May 2007
- A man who became a quadriplegic after falling from a tree when he was suicidal, has failed in his bid to sue a hospital for releasing him too early.
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- QC drug use to be investigated
- 22 May 2007
- THE allegations of drug taking by Victorian barristers following the death of leading QC Peter Hayes will be investigated by the profession's peak state body.
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- Axe murderers appeal against convictions
- 16 May 2007
- TWO men jailed for 42 years for the axe murders of a father and son in Tasmania's north have appealed against their convictions and sentences.
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- Folbigg wins court battle
- 16 May 2007
- A woman serving 30 years' jail for the killing of four children has won the right to ask that her appeal be reopened after a juror at her trial allegedly illegally researched her background on the internet.
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- Woman questioned over lawyer's collapse
- 16 May 2007
- ADELAIDE police say a 28-year-old woman administered a drug of dependence to a Melbourne QC Peter Hayes, who is in a critical condition after being found unconscious in a hotel room on Friday.
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- Dentist's chair sent flying as car hits clinic
- 12 Apr 2007
- A woman crashed her car into a Melbourne dental surgery, driving through the waiting room and into the dentist's chair, sending it flying.
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- Croc victim gets arm back
- 12 Apr 2007
- Surgeons reattached a Taiwanese veterinarian's forearm today after a 200-kilogram Nile crocodile chomped it off and colleagues recovered the limb from the reptile's mouth.
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- Accused war criminal thrown out
- 12 Apr 2007
- Alleged Serbian war criminal Dragan Vasiljkovic has lost his bid to stay in Australia.
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- Ansett sons fail in bid on father's estate
- 5 Apr 2007
- The two sons of Ansett Airlines founder Sir Reginald Myles Ansett have failed in a bid to claim a larger slice of the aviation pioneer's estate.
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- Ex -Federal Court Judge Einfeld faces jail over $77 ticket
- 30 Mar 2007
- THE former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld faces the prospect of a long jail term after being charged yesterday with 13 offences relating to giving false evidence to avoid speeding fines
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- Son will be tried over alledged parent stabbings in 1993
- 21 Mar 2007
- A Sydney man accused of stabbing his parents to death 14 years ago should stand trial for their murders, a court has ruled.
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- Police killing: High Court orders retrial...
- 21 Mar 2007
- A man acquitted on appeal over the 2002 shooting murder of Sydney policeman Glenn McEnallay should be tried again, the High Court has ordered.
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- The Law Explored: the House of Lords
- 19 Mar 2007
- As the highest court in the land, the House of Lords has, for over six centuries, been a prodigious law factory. Major principles of the criminal law, constitutional law, and the law of contract, negligence, and property, have been formulated in its decisions. Today it declares the law in over 80 cases a year
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- Leave me be, 98-year-old woman tells young admirer
- 2 Mar 2007
- MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A 98-year-old Mexican woman has filed a legal complaint against a suitor 50 years her junior who she said tried to kiss her and threatened to kill her if she didn't let him move in with her.
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- Granny finds grenade in groceries
- 2 Mar 2007
- NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - A 74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds.
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- Judge's ruling warns Brethren
- 21 Feb 2007
- A JUDGE has given three members of an Exclusive Brethren family suspended jail sentences for denying a father an access visit to two of his children.
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- Drivers lose speed camera test case
- 21 Feb 2007
- In a test case pitting motorists against the reliability of speed cameras, NSW's highest court has come down on the side of technology.
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- Student hit by branch awarded $718,000
- 14 Feb 2007
- A foreign student who suffered head injuries when struck by a falling branch from a fig tree in Hyde Park has been awarded $718,000 in the NSW Supreme Court.
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- CRICKET-A crushing defeat for imperial vanity
- 8 Feb 2007
- Befpre Australia take on England in the one-day finals, let's take this opportunity to bury a myth that has grown over the summer.
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- Top judge takes Government to task
- 30 Jan 2007
- THE Chief Justice, Jim Spigelman, last night embarked on a staunch defence of judicial independence, attacking disrespect for judges and the Government's petulance at not always getting what it wants.
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- Why members of the jury appreciate a nice cup of tea
- 26 Jan 2007
- The jury system has been described as the jewel in the crown of the criminal justice system. But how well are citizens treated when they turn up to do their civic duty? Read on this interesting UK article on this topical subject.
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- The verdict: 12 good men and true can understand a fraud trial
- 26 Jan 2007
- Jurors in a UK trial that collapsed at a cost of £60 million after 21 months have strongly backed the ability of ordinary people to cope with complex frauds.
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- A hedgehog? There's nowt so queer as...
- 13 Jan 2007
- Is the law dry and dusty? Not so you'd notice from this annual quiz from the land of our forefathers.....
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- Falconio killer loses appeal
- 10 Jan 2007
- Bradley John Murdoch has failed in an appeal against his conviction and life sentence for the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio in the Northern Territory outback.
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- One strike and you're out
- 8 Jan 2007
- P-platers would automatically lose their licences if they broke the law even once during their first year of driving under a new proposal to be put to the NSW Government.
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- A chilli-hot year for whiny garbage
- 24 Dec 2006
- The most memorable, outrageous and unforgetable COURT APPEARANCES of 2006
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- Trouble with Harry: two convicted for traffic fines con
- 8 Dec 2006
- A MYSTERY fixer of traffic fines known only as Harry has emerged as a key player in one of two scams that have led to 238 people being charged for falsely swearing statutory declarations to avoid penalties or losing their licence.
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- Tell all lawyer 'can't handle the truth'
- 7 Dec 2006
- A former member of Schapelle Corby's legal team who is threatening to tell "the truth" about her drug smuggling conviction can't be trusted, Corby's sister Mercedes says.
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- Car hire boss accused of parking fine scam
- 28 Nov 2006
- CHARLIE TOUMA walked to and from the Downing Centre Local Court even though he owns a fleet of luxury sports cars for hire.
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- Schoolies bashing: teen critical
- 23 Nov 2006
- A teenager is in a critical condition with serious head injuries after he was bashed on the Gold Coast during schoolies celebrations.
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- Two old foes unite to bring peace to Nepal
- 23 Nov 2006
- TWO fierce former foes sat side by side - the wily octogenarian political veteran and the charismatic Maoist - as history unfolded in Nepal with the signing of a comprehensive peace agreement to end the country's 11-year civil war.
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- League star awarded $97,000 over tackle
- 23 Nov 2006
- Former rugby league player Jarrod McCracken has been awarded more than $97,000 after suing an NRL club and two players he claimed cut short his career with a spear tackle.
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- Paternity fraud case fails in High Court
- 9 Nov 2006
- A man who sued his former wife after paying child support for two children fathered by his wife's lover has lost his appeal to the High Court.
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- Sex abuse charge officer freed
- 1 Nov 2006
- A police officer accused of sexually abusing four girls over a 27-year period has been granted bail in the NSW Supreme Court.
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- Link between rape and alcohol may change UK laws
- 24 Oct 2006
- "YES" to sex may be translated to "no" in court, in suggested changes to rape laws that are causing confusion in Britain.
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- I killed them, cries lone crash survivor
- 24 Oct 2006
- WHENEVER Tyler Green woke up from sedation in hospital, he repeated the same words over and over, a friend says.
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- Horror crash may spark new rules
- 23 Oct 2006
- A car accident that killed four teenagers in northern NSW shows the need for new driving laws in Queensland, the state government says.
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- Bid to stop 'black widow' taking estate
- 23 Oct 2006
- The family of a man murdered by a de facto dubbed The Black Widow has launched a bid to stop her controlling his estate.
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- Child at wheel in fatal crash, court told
- 18 Oct 2006
- A MAN let a four-year-old child steer his car while it travelled at up to 150kmh before ploughing into a group of teenagers, killing six of them, a court has heard.
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- Runaway bride sues for cash
- 11 Oct 2006
- A would-be bride who earned instant fame when she ran away from her fiance just before their wedding is suing him for half a million dollars for her share of the rights to their story.
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- Double jeopardy killer jailed for life
- 7 Oct 2006
- A man previously cleared 15 years ago in England of murdering a young mother was jailed for life yesterday under changes to the double jeopardy law.
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- A Fair Go For Injured People
- 7 Oct 2006
- A traffic accident that wasn’t her fault has changed Sydney mother of three, Susan’s life forever. Like thousands of other people in NSW, Susan cannot access proper compensation for her pain and suffering due to drastic changes introduced by the State Government to personal injury laws in 1999-2005
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- Strange case against fugitive lawyer Julian Moti
- 7 Oct 2006
- VANUATU court documents show the case against fugitive lawyer Julian Moti, being sought by the Australian Government, contains serious weaknesses.
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- Defence fight as legal bill reaches $57m
- 5 Oct 2006
- THE Defence Department is spending millions of dollars on litigation, sometimes costing more than the compensation being sought, official figures reveal.
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- Urgent inquiry into jury system
- 1 Oct 2006
- MORE than half the people called up to become jurors in NSW talk their way out of it, sparking an urgent inquiry aimed at revolutionising the jury system.
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- Earth close to hottest climate in million years
- 26 Sep 2006
- The Earth's rapid warming has pushed temperatures to their hottest level in nearly 12,000 years and within a hair's breadth of a million years, a study by the US space agency showed on Sunday.
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- Native title claim is 'no pot of gold': Aird
- 24 Sep 2006
- The man behind a native title claim over the Gold Coast says it's no land grab and won't bring a "pot of gold" to Aborigines.
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- Found: shark that walks on its fins
- 19 Sep 2006
- Scientists combing through undersea wonders off Indonesia's Papua province said today they had discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like a praying mantis.
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- Cannibals may be feeding the lies
- 19 Sep 2006
- PAUL RAFFAELE led Channel Seven's Naomi Robson, Nine's Ben Fordham and more than 2 million 60 Minutes viewers into Indonesia's Papua province to find a six-year old boy named Wa-Wa. The May 60 Minutes program, which was the most-watched episode of the year and was repeated last night, depicted Wa-Wa as a future victim of his Korowai's tribe's taste for human flesh.
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- Herald's use of email replies was wrong, says judge
- 13 Sep 2006
- A SUPREME court judge has criticised two Herald journalists for using emailed replies to questions rather than asking for an interview with the former Carr Government minister Eddie Obeid.
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- Court Appearances is now Number 1!
- 6 Sep 2006
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- Bullies ordered to pay $67,800
- 6 Sep 2006
- A Sydney court has ordered four bullies to pay as much as $67,800 in damages to a fellow student they had threatened and assaulted.
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- Victim seeks damages from bullies
- 5 Sep 2006
- A SYDNEY schoolboy who was bullied, threatened and attacked by fellow students is suing his tormenters for more than $100,000 in damages.
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- Irwin death footage 'terrible'
- 5 Sep 2006
- The underwater video footage of Steve Irwin's death after he was speared in the chest by a stingray was "shocking" his manager reportedly said today.
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- Much-maligned judges get it right on terror
- 3 Sep 2006
- NSW Supreme Court Justice Anthony Whealy, who last month sentenced Lakemba architect Faheem Lodhi to 20 years' jail for planning a terrorist attack in Sydney must be applauded.
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- Family justice descends into farce
- 2 Sep 2006
- A BLOW-OUT in Family Court delays is increasing the cost and trauma of breaking up, and it now takes more than two years to resolve difficult disputes
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- Removalist crushed by reversing trucks
- 31 Aug 2006
- A Sydney removalist has been crushed to death between two reversing trucks.
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- Speed camera upset: RTA holds firm
- 25 Aug 2006
- The Roads and Traffic Authority has warned motorists not to "jump to any conclusions" after a judge ruled that a speed camera photo was not valid evidence.
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- Missing woman seen tied up in detective's car
- 24 Aug 2006
- JANINE VAUGHAN, a Bathurst woman who disappeared almost five years ago, was seen tied up in the car of Brad Hosemans, a former NSW police officer, shortly after she went missing, the Police Integrity Commission has been told.
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- What does the word 'Telstra' mean to you?
- 22 Aug 2006
- Federal politicians will consider selling up to $10 billion of Telstra shares in a sharemarket
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- Big Dazza's dying breed needs saving
- 22 Aug 2006
- IF THERE is one man on the International Cricket Council's umpiring panel brave enough to put his head in the furnace and remain unflinching in the fire, it is Darrell Hair.
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- Support for Hair as Pakistan row rages
- 22 Aug 2006
- THE world's leading umpire, Simon Taufel, has defended the stance taken by match officials Darrell Hair and Billy Doctrove that led to the fourth Test between England and Pakistan ending in a farcical forfeiture - the first such result in the 129-year history of Test cricket.
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- Road rage' shrink shot at van
- 22 Aug 2006
- A US psychiatrist charged with firing gunshots at a van carrying children told the officer who stopped him it was an act of road rage, authorities said.
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- FAMOUS UNSOLVED US MURDER MYSTERY: JonBenet murder: 'I did it' claim
- 17 Aug 2006
- A 41-year-old American man has admitted to the killing a decade ago in the USA city of Atlanta, six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, Thai police said today.
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- New Qld Law Society boss backs solicitors for judiciary
- 17 Aug 2006
- THE SELECTION of a new president to the Queensland Law Society has brought the issue of judicial appointments again to the fore. Contrary to comments made by some of his peers, covered in these pages, Joe Pinder says solicitors will always make suitable candidates for the bench.
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- US woman finds love in Perth schoolboy
- 16 Aug 2006
- A 30-year-old Californian woman has left her toddler behind in the United States to move into a Perth love nest with a 16-year-old schoolboy she met on the internet.
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- Hunt for knifeman who stabs strangers
- 15 Aug 2006
- A man who has stabbed three people in random attacks in south-west Sydney could strike again, police have warned.
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- Captain Kirk's back on deck
- 14 Aug 2006
- The Starship Enterprise is in trouble and, as usual, Captain James T. Kirk has a plan to save it.
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- AIRLINE TERRORISM ALERT
- 12 Aug 2006
- AIRLINE TERRORISM ALERT; Terror Attacks Were `Very Near'; British Arrest 24 in Alleged Plot to Bomb as Many as 10 U.S. Jets
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- Einfeld's lawyers have another alibi
- 11 Aug 2006
- THE former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld is a man under serious pressure, from the Solomon Islands to Adelaide.
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- Cabbie pushed from car
- 9 Aug 2006
- A taxi driver has died after an assailant pushed him from his moving cab during a dramatic chain of events that began with a police chase in Melbourne's east.
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- Burrell's ransom demand
- 9 Aug 2006
- Transcript (uncorrected) of the ransom note sent to the family of Kerry Whelan, who was kidnapped on May 6, 1997.
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- Cabbie charged with raping passenger
- 7 Aug 2006
- An Adelaide taxi driver has been charged with raping a 21-year-old passenger.
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- Norfolk killing: accused offers no plea
- 7 Aug 2006
- New Zealander Glenn McNeill did not enter a plea to the charge of murdering Janelle Patton in 2002 as his committal hearing got under way on Norfolk Island today.
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- Bashed guard cleared of murder
- 4 Aug 2006
- Security guard Karen Brown has been found not guilty of murdering a man who attacked and tried to rob her.
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- Heroin dealer, 79, jailed
- 4 Aug 2006
- A 79-year-old Perth widower looks set to spend the rest of his life behind bars after being jailed for nine years for trafficking heroin and methylamphetamine.
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- Woman sues over lesbian affair
- 1 Aug 2006
- A MUSIC teacher and Baptist preacher who has admitted having a lesbian relationship with a teenage student 20 years ago is being sued by the woman for assault and negligence.
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- Lords back biological parents’ rights
- 28 Jul 2006
- The House of Lords has ruled it is in children’s best interest to remain in the primary care of their biological parent unless there is “compelling reason” against such a move.
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- Private criminal prosecution an "anomalous survival", say Lords
- 28 Jul 2006
- It would be an abuse of process to allow the victim of an assault to privately prosecute his assailant in circumstances where the assailant had been formally cautioned by the police and given assurance that he would not be publicly prosecuted, the House of Lords ruled this morning.
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- Teen found dead in Long Bay
- 28 Jul 2006
- A 19-year-old prisoner has been found dead on the floor of his cell at Sydney's Long Bay jail.
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- Pokie room stabbing 'unprovoked'
- 27 Jul 2006
- A vicious, seemingly unprovoked knife attack in a historic Blue Mountains pub yesterday has left one man fighting for his life in hospital and his attacker on the run, according to police.
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- Is there a zombie in the Vatican?
- 26 Jul 2006
- The Vatican has emerged as an "unwitting relay source of spam traffic" in the latest "dirty dozen" report released by Sophos, which names and shames the countries generating the highest amounts of junk email.
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- Ship death witness scolded by coroner
- 26 Jul 2006
- AN UNCONSCIOUS Dianne Brimble was showered and dressed by two men before they called medical help because one of them, Mark Wilhelm, was "embarrassed" that she was naked.
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- Dying to be dead
- 24 Jul 2006
- It's no surprise to any fan of Channel Ten's hit series The O.C. that founding character Marissa Cooper will shuffle off her mortal coil this week.
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- Deportation looms for gifted law student
- 24 Jul 2006
- A LAW student whose work was hailed as "invaluable" by a High Court judge will emerge from Villawood detention centre today to make her last attempt to remain in Australia, or she will be deported tomorrow.
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- Appeal for witness over Sydney murder case
- 21 Jul 2006
- When Brendan Fowler arrived to visit his friend Fiona McNeill in her Crown Street apartment one night in November 2001, there was no answer, even though she was expecting him.
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- Throat slashed in Eastern Suburbs
- 21 Jul 2006
- A man has had his throat slashed with a knife while walking down a laneway in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
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- Click fraud on the up and up
- 17 Jul 2006
- Have you eve wondered how save your Adwords advertising on Google really is, when it is open for your oppostion just to go to your ad, click on it repeatedly thereby making you pay thru the nose? Swindlers have stepped up their effort to fleece millions of dollars from online advertisers who use lucrative marketing networks run by Google and Yahoo, according to a quarterly report to be released.
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- Eggs-in-undies smuggler fined
- 17 Jul 2006
- A man who smuggled native bird eggs in his underpants has escaped a jail sentence of up to 10 years but lost his nest egg savings by being fined $25,000.
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- Honey, I blew up the house: ex-husband's revenge
- 12 Jul 2006
- A New York married woman received one last piece of abuse from her ex-husband. It was a very long, rambling email with an ominous warning.
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- Dog attack leaves victim with leg wounds
- 12 Jul 2006
- A woman was bitten by a dog in Sydney's west yesterday, a day after a toddler was mauled in a nearby suburb.
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- Solicitor shot dead in his office
- 11 Jul 2006
- Homicide detectives are seeking witnesses to the murder of a Melbourne solicitor near his office last night.
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- Toddler badly hurt in dog attack
- 10 Jul 2006
- Japanese akita dogs should be banned in NSW after an attack which seriously injured a toddler, the State Opposition says.
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- Lost dog Rocky kicked to death
- 10 Jul 2006
- A man killed a family's lost labrador by kicking it in the head on a Central Coast street, police say.
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- Dingo baby jury notes for sale
- 7 Jul 2006
- A juror in the Azaria Chamberlain murder trial says she will try to sell her notes privately after they were removed from the British arm of eBay.
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- Top Sydney SC accused of child porn
- 7 Jul 2006
- A top Sydney Crown Prosecutor has stepped down after being charged with possession of child pornography.
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- Juror selling Chamberlain trial notes
- 7 Jul 2006
- A juror in the Azaria Chamberlain murder trial is selling her personal notes from the infamous 1982 proceedings in a bid to finally quell public hatred towards Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton.
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- Rabbit mutilator jailed
- 3 Jul 2006
- A Sydney financier has been jailed for 16 months for "the worst case" of aggravated cruelty against animals.
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- Former PM's son in court over 'assault'
- 3 Jul 2