Single judge has 700 cases on the go at one time. Judge Joe Harman can’t clear backlog despite sitting up to 10 hours a day. Parramatta Federal Circuit Court likened to a hospital emergency ward…

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

According to David Collier, a recently-retired judge from the Parramatta Family Court, false allegations of domestic violence have now become a “major weapon” in the war between parents who wish to secure sole custody of their children…

A man who married a 12-year-old girl in an Islamic ceremony in New South Wales is jailed for at least seven and a half years, and up to a maximum of ten years…

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

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 judge recently took the “drastic step” of ordering that a girl, eight, who had lived with her mother since her parents separated when she was 13 months, instead live with her father…

Parents locked in child custody disputes and couples going through acrimonious divorces will wait up to three years to have their cases finalised as “drastic underfunding” of the Federal Circuit Court and a mass exodus of retiring judges exacerbate already long waits…

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…