County Court

Bikie-linked lawyer gets 3 years in jail for financial deception

A lawyer and pre-insolvency adviser with links to Melbourne’s criminal underworld has been sentenced to three years...

24 September 2025

By Emma Partis

Employer not liable after armed robbery sparks psychiatric injury claim

A 22-second armed robbery blitz on a Victoria-based district sports club allegedly caused an employee psychiatric...

24 April 2025

By Kace O'Neill

Victorian County Court Chief Judge elevated to state’s Court of Appeal

Peter Kidd SC, the Chief Judge of the County Court and a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has been appointed as...

14 March 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Victorian lawyer jailed for ‘abhorrent’ $420k theft from clients

A former named principal of a Victorian law firm has been imprisoned for stealing $400,000 from the estates of two...

20 June 2023

By Naomi Neilson

2 new Supreme Court judges, 2 new County Court judges named in Victoria

Victorian Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes has appointed an associate judge and silk to the state’s Supreme Court and...

19 June 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

4 new judges, 10 new magistrates, 10 new VCAT members appointed

The Victorian Government has named a new judge for the Court of Appeal, three new County Court judges, 10 appointees to...

31 October 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy