Ellie Dudley

Ellie DudleyLegal Affairs Correspondent

Ellie Dudley is the legal affairs correspondent at The Australian covering courts, crime, and changes to the legal industry. She was previously a reporter on the NSW desk and, before that, one of the newspaper’s cadets.

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06-07-2024 - Ankit Thangasamy outside Downing Centre court on Friday. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Cop slams rape-case ‘ideology’

A senior police officer acquitted of rape has blasted prosecutors for ‘wasting the court’s time’, saying Sally Dowling’s office ‘sacrifices the truth’ to run baseless rape prosecutions.

Ellie Dudley and Liam Mendes

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Pictures tendered to court in the Linda Reynolds-Brittany Higgins defamation case.

The 15 photos Linda Reynolds is using against Brittany Higgins

Linda Reynolds’ lawyer says these images – tendered as evidence to the Brittany Higgins defamation trial – help prove her allegations Higgins fabricated her claims of a rape cover-up.

Ellie Dudley

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 29, 2024: NSW Premier Chris Minns during a press conference to announce additional reforms for renters. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short

Minns willing to meet rape complainant after case axed

The NSW Premier says he is willing to ‘immediately’ meet with any rape complainant whose case has been axed at the last minute due to NSW DPP Sally Dowling’s wide-ranging audit.

Ellie Dudley

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NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling SC takes questions during a NSW Budget Estimates hearing at the Parliament of NSW in Sydney, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

No justice, no trust: victim’s grief

Lauren James’s dropped rape case is one of up to 400 caught in a wide-ranging internal audit ordered by NSW DPP Sally Dowling, after judges criticised her office for running rape trials that did not have enough evidence to secure a conviction.

Ellie Dudley

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EMBARGO .LADY JUSTICE PODCAST - NETWORK NEWS PREMIUM CONTENT: NO THE AUSTRALIAN/NO NEWS.COM/NO SKY NEWS 24/2/22 WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST NOT USE BEFORE CLEARING WITH PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN. Zali Burrows, lawyer to some shady characters over the last decade, pictured in Sydney today. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Meet Bruce Lehrmann’s new lawyer

Zali Burrows’ new speaking gig; A new deputy coroner following the Bondi stabbings; and the Melbourne mum who lied about being Aboriginal to get bail | Read Ipso Facto

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 15: Bruce Lehrmann emerges from court on April 15, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. Justice Michael Lee has ruled in favour of Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case. The case arose from allegations aired on 'The Project' news program, in which Brittany Higgins claimed she was raped by a colleague in Parliament House. Lehrmann, who denied any sexual contact with Ms Higgins, alleged defamation by the broadcast, despite not being explicitly named. The court found that Lehrmann had raped Brittany Higgins on the balance of probabilities. (Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images)

Lehrmann’s last minute legal bid revealed

The former Liberal staffer has made an eleventh-hour decision to appoint a high-profile criminal lawyer ahead of his Federal Court appeal, having previously indicated he was going to self-represent.

Ellie Dudley

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Scales of justice and Gavel on wooden table and Lawyer or Judge working with agreement in Courtroom, Justice and Law concept.

Lawyers push Labor to fix $1bn legal aid gap

Peak legal bodies have signed a joint letter urging Labor to fix a $1bn shortfall in federal government funding for public legal services.

Ellie Dudley

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A barrister wears a wig at the Supreme Court in Brisbane, Tuesday, October 29, 2019. (AAP Image/Glenn Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Widows ‘collateral damage’ in nest egg tax stoush

One widow of a Federal Court judge says she is ‘extremely worried’ about how Labor’s new tax could disrupt her retirement plans, and is simply waiting for the ‘guillotine to drop’ on her head.

Ellie Dudley

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The Education Minister has introduced a new Bill to crack down on universities and colleges overstepping on foreign students. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

Law Council raises concerns over caps on foreign intake

Changes to legislation that would allow the Albanese government to cap international student enrolments are ‘over-extensive in their reach’, Australia’s peak legal body has warned.

Joanna Panagopoulos and Ellie Dudley

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Banks, supermarket services restored after cyber crisis

Commonwealth Bank and Coles are business as usual the morning after a global internet outage crippled the world’s airports, telcos and shopping centres.

Jared Lynch, Ellie Dudley and Ben Packham

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