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Clare is a journalist with a focus on court and crime. She has worked in newsrooms in Australia, the UK and Middle East. Her investigation into Australia’s largest online child abuse ring, Inside Arkstone, won her a 2022 News Award. She joined news.com.au in early 2023.

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Courts & Law

DAILY TELEGRAPH 28TH MARCH 2023Pictured leaving the Health Care Complaints Commission Professional Standards Committee Inquiry in Sydney is Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo with his fiancee Traci Griffiths.Picture: Richard Dobson

Dr Teo’s bold plan to save his future

Embattled neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has been black-listed from operating in Australian without approval, but this is his way around it.

NRL

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos: MARCH 22 2023 - Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne is seen leaving JMT Court in Sydney with his wife Amelia Bonnici, as the Trial continues at the JMT/ Downing Centre. Hayne is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at her Newcastle home on grand final night in 2018. Picture: NCA Newswire / Gaye Gerard

Hayne rape victim’s night from hell

The woman raped by Jarryd Hayne has retold her trauma many times. This is what the third jury accepted happened on her night from hell.

NRL

Victim’s four-word Insta message to Hayne

These are the texts and social media chats that helped get Jarryd Hayne convicted of sexual assault and staring down the barrel of jail time.

BREAKINGNRL

Hayne’s wife breaks down over verdict

A jury has delivered its verdict in the rape trial of ex-NRL star Jarryd Hayne after more than a week of deliberating.

UPDATEDCourts & Law

DAILY TELEGRAPH 27TH MARCH 2023Pictured leaving the Health Care Complaints Commission Professional Standards Committee Inquiry in Sydney is Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo with his fiancee Traci Griffiths.Picture: Richard Dobson

Teo’s evidence ‘opportunistically untruthful’

Charlie Teo has been accused of being “opportunistically and deliberately untruthful” in his evidence to a medical inquiry into two catastrophic surgeries.

UPDATEDCourts & Law

20th February 2023. The Daily Telegraph. News.Sydney, NSW, Australia.Pics by Julian Andrews.An Emotional Dr Charlie Teo arrives at the Health Care Complaints Commission Professional Standards Committee Inquiry in Sydney with his fiancee Traci Griffiths.Teo was greeted by a large crowd of well-wishers made up mostly of people whose lives he had saved and their relatives.

Teo defends slapping patient’s face

Charlie Teo has admitted to slapping a female patient in the face her in a medical way, arguing it wasn’t a “Will Smith-type slap”.

Courts & Law

Lehrmann’s Lisa Wilkinson note revealed

The contents of Bruce Lehrmann’s ‘blue book’ has been revealed in court documents, showing his notes on Lisa Wilkinson and Brittany Higgins’ parents.

Courts & Law

‘Coming for you’: Chilling email to Lehrmann

An anonymous email landed in Bruce Lehrmann’s inbox weeks before Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation first broke, court documents reveal.

NRL

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 23, 2023: Jarryd Hayne returns from lunch to the Downing Centre local court JMT on Thursday. The former NRL star is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at her Newcastle home on grand final night in 2018. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nikki Short

Hayne’s accuser’s single text ‘says it all’

A single text from Hayne’s accuser following his alleged sexual assault “says it all”, the crown prosecutor told court as the trial nears an end.

UPDATEDNSW / ACT Courts & Law

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA , NewsWire Photos. MARCH 16TH 2023 Bruce Lehrmann walks out of the supreme court in Sydney . Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Flavio Brancaleone

Lawyers question Lehrmann silence on delay

Bruce Lehrmann gave “no evidence” about why he didn’t sue two media outlets and their two journalists within the legal time limit, a court has heard.

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