The Law

For the first time the High Court is considering whether or not DNA evidence alone is enough proof to convict...

US President Barack Obama has sent shockwaves through Capitol Hill by nominating his chief legal advocate to the top judicial...

Members of the International Commission of Jurists and NSW Young Lawyers are launching an initiative they hope will kickstart a...

NSW police have formed Strike Force RUSKIN to investigate abuse allegations against former Hey Dad star Robert Hughes. Hughes is...

Former Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu allegedly confessed to accepting bribes on the first day of his trial in Shanghai,...

The trial of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu and 3 of his collegues began today in Shanghai. The men are...

Mamdouh Habib, former Guantanamo detainee, has won his defamation case against Sydney’s Daily Telegraph over an article published in 2005....

South Australian Premier Mike Rann has announced that if reelected, his government will amend the 1921 Evidence Act and provide...

Laws to target cyber racism may be expanded thanks to a review to be conducted by the Australian Human Rights...

It took seventeen hours of heated debate but Queensland has become the last Australian state to decriminalise altruistic surrogacy. In...