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A judge has overruled a decision by the Senior magistrate to order the Crown to pay the legal expenses of a man accused of speeding. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe made the order after prosecutors failed to provide a witness statement from the officer...

A man was jailed for six months yesterday after he declined to pay fines totalling $7,250. Magistrate Maxanne Anderson jailed Malcolm Symonds after he told Magistrates’ Court that he could not afford to pay and instead opted to be jailed. She said: “...

A man was remanded in custody yesterday after he was alleged to have been caught with a semi-automatic pistol and ammunition over the Cup Match holiday. Jaron Roberts, 30, was charged in Magistrates’ Court with possession of a firearm, namely a Kel-T...

A former lawyer was yesterday accused of stealing more than $400,000 worth of credit balances. Tyrone Quinn, 35, was charged with the theft of $96,000 in credit balances belonging to Jeanna Riley between August 3 last year and February 11. He was als...

A man shoved a police officer during a skirmish at a ferry terminal during the Cup Match holiday weekend, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday. The court heard that police visited Darrell’s Wharf, Warwick, around 1.15am last Friday when they saw an arg...

A 36-year-old man has been cleared of an alleged sex assault – but was given an 18-month conditional discharge for shoving the woman. The man was convicted in Magistrates’ Court of common assault and found not guilty of a sex assault on the same vict...

A legal challenge that claimed strict curfew laws were unconstitutional and denied people a “reasonable excuse” will be rescinded after the man at the centre of the challenge admitted to a breach of the Government curfew. Marc Daniels, the lawyer for...

A man who rear-ended a truck while more than two and a half times the legal alcohol limit was banned from the roads for 18 months last week. Pierre Nicholas, 33, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to driving while over the legal blood-alcohol limit...

A former nurse’s aide convicted of senior abuse after she hurled a bottle at a senior suffering from dementia has lost an appeal against conviction. While Rose Belboda accepted that she had thrown an air freshener bottle at a 72-year-old patient at K...

Mandatory supervised quarantine regulations could be relaxed as early as next week after the Chief Justice yesterday dismissed a legal challenge to the controversial policy. Speaking in the House of Assembly yesterday evening, the Premier said that w...