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Lawyer charged with smuggling drug-filled balloons into Sydney prison
The solicitor allegedly concealed cocaine, methamphetamine, buprenorphine and tobacco inside six balloons.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
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Paul Kent guilty of street brawl as court rejects mental health claim
NRL journalist Paul Kent has pleaded guilty to a drunken street brawl after 11 hours at a pub, failing to convince a court he should be dealt with under mental health laws.
- by Perry Duffin
Point Piper millionaire loses latest fee battle against her own lawyers
Wealthy Point Piper identity Diane Maloney has been ordered to pay $350,000 to her lawyers after already forking out $15 million in legal fees.
- by Andrew Hornery
Controversial surgeon William Mooney hit with fresh legal action as he leaves court
Mooney had just appeared at the NSW Court of Appeal where the NSW Medical Council was trying to stop him practicing again.
- by Kate McClymont
‘Familial generosity’: Fadi Ibrahim learns fate after gangster brother repays $600k
The Sydney identity has been sentenced for dealing with suspected proceeds of crime after his brother, Michael, tried to smuggle black market tobacco.
- by Perry Duffin
North shore council ordered to pay woman $283,000 over slip on mulch slope
Kathie Beatrice Salman successfully sued a Sydney council after she rolled her ankle while moving from a bark surface to spongy rubber in a children’s playground.
- by Michael Koziol
Jarryd Hayne will not face fourth sexual assault trial: NSW DPP
The former Parramatta Eels player was charged in 2018 over the alleged sexual assault of a 26-year-old woman in her Newcastle home.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
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‘Masterminds of manipulation’: The collapse of a property empire
One of the nation’s biggest privately owned building companies, Dyldam, lies in financial ruin with feuding between former owners resulting in lawsuits, bankruptcy actions and legal charges.
- by Kate McClymont
Road rage victim intentionally held against moving vehicle, police allege
Sydney man Bradley Wilkinson has been charged after Rhyce Harding died in an alleged road rage incident in Sydney’s west.
- by Jessica McSweeney, Clare Sibthorpe and Ben Cubby
‘A lovely little girl’: Nine-year-old Charlise Mutten’s fateful Christmas holiday
Charlise Mutten’s grandparents put her on a plane to visit her mother Kallista Mutten and her mother’s fiance Justin Stein for Christmas. She never came home.
- by Sarah McPhee and The Visual Stories Team
Justin Stein’s first police interview
Justin Stein was interviewed twice by police on January 14, 2022 in the hours after Kallista Mutten had reported her nine-year-old daughter Charlise missing. Source: NSW Supreme Court
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