Court Justice: Sydney

An inside look at the machinations of Australia’s busiest local court sees Sydney’s top Magistrates dealing with a violent street brawl that has a sur...

Sydney’s top Magistrates dole out punishment for a spate of alcohol-fuelled crimes. Two British backpackers have violently attacked a café owner, an a...

People from all walks of life end up in Australia’s busiest local court. A drug addict, two disrespectful twenty-somethings and a priest who has been...

Sending a defendant to jail is never an easy decision for Magistrates in Australia’s busiest local court. Three defendants are now before them on seri...

Sydney’s busiest local courts are home to heartbroken parents supporting errant children as they face the full weight of the law. A young man has atta...

Drug offences account for almost twenty percent of all cases before Australia’s busiest local courts. Drug related crime has landed a housewife and a...

Over half the defendants who appear in Australia’s busiest local court will re-offend within ten years. Today four serial offenders tread a familiar p...

Drink driving is an endemic problem around the world and in NSW alone 20,000 people are charged with the offence. Magistrates in Sydney’s busiest cour...

In Australia’s busiest local court a surprising number of defendants choose to do without a lawyer and instead represent themselves. A young driver, a...

Sydney’s hardworking Magistrates reveal the difficult deliberations handing down a sentence to a young man caught for a second time with cocaine. Mean...