Supreme Court News
One.Tel creditors tilt again at CGU
Tuesday August 11, 2009
CREDITORS of the collapsed telephone company One.Tel have launched a fresh assault on the insurance company CGU in a battle that began in the NSW Supreme Court eight years ago and has been three times to the Court of Appeal and twice to the High Court.Trouble in court for Obama nominee
Wednesday July 1, 2009
JUST as Judge Sonia Sotomayor prepares to face the US Senate Judiciary Committee for a confirmation hearing, the Supreme Court, which she hopes to join, has reversed one of her most high-profile decisions.Ordeal set to end for Merauke Five
Thursday June 11, 2009
THE five Australians who have been stuck in the remote Indonesian town of Merauke for nine months have been cleared and are free to return home after the country's Supreme Court yesterday upheld an earlier court decision to release them.Merauke Five free to leave
Thursday June 11, 2009
THE five Australians stuck in the remote Indonesian town of Merauke for the past nine months have been cleared of any wrongdoing by Indonesia's Supreme Court, paving the way for their freedom and return home.Standen will face trial over drug conspiracy
Thursday June 11, 2009
A FORMER policeman, Mark Standen, could face life imprisonment after being committed to stand trial for allegedly conspiring to import and supply drugs.Vice Regal
Friday January 16, 2009
Yesterday, in Chambers, The Honourable Justice Margaret Joan Beazley AO, swore the Official and Judicial Oath as Administrator of the Government of the State of New South Wales, before The Honourable James Spigelman AC, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, with Mr Brian L. Davies LVO, Official Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Governor in attendance.Student Squatters Lose Legal Fight
Tuesday January 6, 2009
SQUATTERS occupying a Melbourne University terrace house in Carlton have been ordered by a Supreme Court judge to leave immediately.Bid To Stop Web Postings
Saturday January 3, 2009
A HUNTER taxi driver found to have vilified homosexual people on the internet in 2006 is expected to be back in court over more of his comments.Hardie Director 'not Frank', Court Told
Thursday December 18, 2008
THE former James Hardie chairman Meredith Hellicar was accused of giving "not truthful" evidence to the NSW Supreme Court yesterday after she disavowed two documents from her email files.Leader Not Violent Man, Court Hears
Tuesday November 25, 2008
CONVICTED jihadi terrorist leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika had major depression and a history of abusing painkillers, the Supreme Court was told at his plea hearing yesterday.Accused Tells Court Of Fears For Life
Wednesday November 19, 2008
AN East Maitland Supreme Court murder trial was abruptly adjourned yesterday when the accused, Todd Andrew Pearce, yelled and swore at the Crown prosecutor.Prison For Mokbel's 'broken' Sister-in-law Who Lied To Court
Wednesday October 22, 2008
RENATE Lisa Mokbel, described in court as a broken woman, will spend the next 11 months behind bars after lying to the Supreme Court about the extent of her family's assets.Accused To Face Court Over Death
Thursday August 21, 2008
A CO-ACCUSED in the alleged stabbing murder at Muswellbrook of Victorian man David Harrison has been committed for trial in the NSW Supreme Court.Solicitor Skips Courts For Supreme Spot
Tuesday August 5, 2008
FORMER dux of Newcastle Girls High School Julie Ward has effectively topped her class again, this time breaking new ground in her appointment to the NSW Supreme Court.Gullible But Not A Killer, Court Hears
Thursday June 19, 2008
HE may have been gullible, violent and uncouth but murder accused Andrew Wayne Flentjar was no killer, the NSW Supreme Court in Wollongong heard yesterday.Snibson The Face Of Evil, Court Told
Wednesday June 18, 2008
DOUBLE murderer Kim Leanne Snibson was the face of evil and a master manipulator, the NSW Supreme Court in Wollongong heard yesterday.Brother Would Not Help Corby Case, Court Told
Tuesday May 27, 2008
MERCEDES CORBY and her legal team had not called her brother, Michael Corby jnr, to answer allegations that he sold marijuana "for a considerable period" to Jodie Power, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.Moran Taskforce 'sharks', Court Hears
Tuesday April 29, 2008
THE police taskforce investigating the Lewis Moran murder contained "sharks" who went on a feeding frenzy when they saw blood in the water, a prisoner said in a secretly recorded jail conversation played in the Supreme Court.
The inmate - who has since nominated himself as the driver when Moran was killed - told then fellow inmate Evangelos Goussis on September 29, 2004, that the police were investigating a big case.Dangling At The Gap: Judge Says No To Court's Cliff Adventure
Wednesday April 16, 2008
THE prospect of some of Sydney's leading barristers and a Supreme Court judge being lowered over a cliff in a cage at The Gap has been canned - at least for the moment.Chairman Profited From Charity: Court
Thursday March 20, 2008
A KIDZWISH Foundation chairman was selling the Illawarra children's charity toys at a profit through his own company, the NSW Supreme Court heard yesterday.