A settlement between Hillsong Church and a female parishioner in a lawsuit over her indecent assault at the hands of a church employee has been scrapped at the last minute. The civil case relates to the indecent assault of Anna Crenshaw by church staffer Jason Mays when she was 18Continue Reading
Disgraced former rugby league superstar Jarryd Hayne sits in a prison cell contemplating the fresh challenges and possible heartbreak he faces in 2024. When the 35-year-old approached a house on the outskirts of Newcastle on the evening of September 30, 2018, he had no idea the 46-minute encounter would leadContinue Reading
NSW Police is trying to stop Clare Nowland’s daughter from watching “confronting” police bodycam footage of the moment her mother was tasered as part of a civil case the family has brought against the state. The 95-year-old grandmother died in hospital in May, a week after she was tasered byContinue Reading
The lawyer for the eldest children of Gina Rinehart has further detailed a rift between Australia’s richest woman and her mining magnate father in the years before his death. Christopher Withers SC, representing John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart in the civil case against their billionaire mother, continued his opening statementsContinue Reading
The lawyer for the eldest children of mining magnate Gina Rinehart has told a court her attitude towards Rose Porteous was a key reason she was dumped as a director of her father’s company. Christopher Withers SC is representing John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart in the Western Australian Supreme Court,Continue Reading
Gina Rinehart’s lawyer says a decades-old royalties agreement for the Hope Downs iron ore mines has been misinterpreted, as the ongoing battle for a stake in the mining giant’s multi-billion dollar empire continues. Week three of the WA Supreme Court civil trial continues the fight to fend off lucrative royaltyContinue Reading
The lawyer representing West Australian prospectors DFD Rhodes has begun opening statements in the massive civil case against Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd (HPPL). It’s the second week of a months-long trial against HPPL, as a number of entities try to claim a share of lucrative mining royalties fromContinue Reading
Court documents in the civil case over the royalties of Hancock Prospecting’s iron ore mines show disputed assets were worth about $840m when valuations were made decades ago. Wright Prospecting lawyer Julie Taylor SC has been presenting her opening address to the Western Australian Supreme Court since the legal battleContinue Reading
Western Australia’s Police Commissioner Col Blanch has confirmed his investigators have been in touch with a woman who was alleged abused over decades by AFL legend Barry Cable. The woman, who can’t be identified, was last month awarded more than $800,000 in a civil suit she launched against Mr Cable,Continue Reading
Failing to implement the recommendations of the Brereton report to the extent possible would lead to Australia being “judged by history”, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has said. Speaking in the wake of a historic finding against Australia’s most decorated veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, Mr Marles – also Defence Minister –Continue Reading