The wife of a wealthy WA mining executive has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for receiving more than $62,000 in social security payments she was not entitled to…

A WOMAN who claimed her partner was her brother has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Federal Government of more than $115,000 in single-parent welfare payments. Nhu Nguyen, 40, was charged with three counts of fraud, committed between 1999 and 2011. …..

Wran died in April last year (2014) aged 87 after suffering dementia. He left a fortune estimated to be worth up to $40 million, largely made up of an impressive property portfolio. This estate is at the heart of a dispute within his extended family. ..

Hundreds of couples are claiming false marital and relationship status to rort millions of dollars from Centrelink…

NSW court rejects claim to disqualify a female judge for being “feminist” and “left leaning”..

Paternity testing has long been perceived as upsetting, even traumatising or embittering– but as the technology becomes increasingly available in Australia, there may be real benefits to getting tested…

In one of the first legal cases in Australia involving the social phenomenon of ‘sexting’, a Sydney pool cleaner was handed down a custodial sentence of almost 2 years jail for sexually harassing two women by way of explicit text messages. ..

In 2012 Justice Garry Foster was asked to declare a marriage between a dementia-affected grandfather and his lover and former cleaner void. In such a rare case, he had to consider whether the grandfather was mentally capable of understanding the effect and nature of marriage…

A fifteen-year-old boy who has male external sexual organs but female internal sexual organs will be offered prosthetic testicles and undergo irreversible sex-changing treatment, but will still be able to have a baby, a Family Court judge has ruled…

A man has lost his legal bid for a share of his ex-wife’s $6 million lotto win after an appeal court found the ticket was bought when the pair were leading separate lives…