Cherie Booth QC has endorsed a call to close some prisons and hand the management of the rest of the prison system in England and Wales over to local communities.
Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya said Wednesday he will not return to his home country until at least Saturday, after a three-day international deadline to reinstate him.
Bavaria NV, the second-largest Dutch brewer, should be able to keep the trademark to its brand name in an eight-year-old legal battle started by German beermakers, the European Union’s highest court said.
Despite a fractured collarbone, a teenage girl who is the only known survivor of the Yemeni jet crash clung to wreckage for more than 13 hours before rescuers found her in the Indian Ocean, a French official and a relative said Wednesday.
Headlines proclaiming the reversal of a federal appeals court ruling by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are off the mark, according to a journalist who has covered the high court.
Germany’s highest court temporarily delayed ratification of the planned European Union governing treaty, adding a new hitch on the obstacle-strewn road to strengthening the EU’s role on the world stage.
Seven online merchants operating more than 40 Web sites have agreed to pay a $765,000 settlement following an investigation by the New York State Attorney General´s office, the AG´s office said.
The US Supreme Court issued a second set of orders Monday, granting certiorari in one additional case.
A Supreme Court case concerning a quirky documentary critical of Hillary Rodham Clinton may result in a major overhaul of rules governing campaign spending by corporations, the court signaled Monday.
The renegade Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff faces a possible sentence of up to 150 years in prison after being formally charged yesterday with a list of crimes including laundering millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains through London.
Hours after the sitting president was deposed by a military-led coup, a new president of Honduras was sworn in Sunday.
A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved a motion to allow General Motors (GM) to borrow $33.3 billion in debtor in possession financing from the US and Canadian governments to finance a new company.
In his memoir, former CIA Director George J. Tenet described the agency´s first course of action in a crisis. "Despite what Hollywood might have you believe," Tenet wrote, "you don´t call in the tough guys; you call in the lawyers."
The performer, who died at 50, left behind a chorus of creditors and a half interest in a hugely successful song catalog.
EBay Inc.’s dispute with the founders of its Skype Internet-phone division threatens to delay a Skype initial public offering and lower the amount raised.
Top U.S. officials urged China Wednesday to abandon its proposal to require Internet filters installed on personal computers starting next month, warning the step could violate world trade rules.
A blogger and Internet radio talk-show host in New Jersey was arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening to kill three federal appeals court judges in Chicago, Illinois.
An Egyptian court on Thursday confirmed the death sentences of a business tycoon and a former police officer convicted of killing rising Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim.
Chrysler LLC’s law firm Jones Day said it incurred fees and expenses of $12.7 million in May in its work for the bankrupt automaker, while other lawyers and advisers seek $8.5 million more, according to court filings.
A woman who is reported to have hidden from authorities rather than testify against her husband at a sexual assault trial last year has been charged with failing to appear in court.
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