Courts in England and Wales are owed £1.3bn in unpaid fines, confiscation and compensation orders.
Lawmakers in Washington are fixed on the legal and financial fallout of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on BP and firms like Transocean, the operator of the Deepwater Horizon rig that sank in April.
Thailand extended a state of emergency imposed in about a third of the country during recent bloody political protests on Tuesday, saying anti-government elements continued to pose a threat.
Germany´s high court has ruled that doctors are allowed to pre-select healthy embryos for their patients. But the decision has re-ignited a moral debate about ethics and a woman´s right to choose.
The judiciary is failing to reflect the UK´s gay and lesbian community, experts say, as research suggests it is seriously under-represented on the bench.
David Cameron today announced an independent judicial inquiry into allegations of British complicity in the torture of detainees held by other countries in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
In the U.S., you can name your kid almost anything, but that´s not the case everywhere in the world. Let´s take a look at some countries with pretty strict or otherwise fascinating baby-naming laws.
Options traders are showing more confidence in the Brazilian real than any other major currency as Latin America’s biggest economy grows at the fastest pace in 15 years.
A new Spanish law allowing abortion without restrictions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy went into effect Monday but the Constitutional Court could yet intervene to suspend or change it.
Poland´s cooperative BPS bank says it´s the first in Europe to install a biometric ATM -- allowing customers to withdraw cash simply with the touch of a fingertip.
The Government is considering making it unlawful for adults to give alcohol to young people without their parents´ consent.
Vale said on Sunday it reached a tentative contract agreement with workers at its Sudbury, Ontario, nickel and copper mining operation, signaling the end of a bitter, year-long strike.
From client advice to attorney fees to ineffective assistance of counsel, the U.S. Supreme Court decided an unusually large number of cases last term involving how lawyers do their jobs.
Drugmakers are provoking fewer antitrust concerns in their attempts to keep generic competitors off the market, a European Union probe into the industry showed.
A California appellate court has backed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger´s decision to pay 240,000 state workers the federal minimum wage — $7.25 an hour — because lawmakers have not passed a new budget.
A New York judge ordered a warring couple to build a wall down the middle of their home in an effort to stop their petty squabbling.
Liberal parliamentary speaker and acting president Bronislaw Komorowski was the winner of Poland´s presidential run-off election, with 95 percent of ballots cast counted.
After what initially seemed like a promising month in May, the legal sector saw its employment numbers drop by 3,900 in June, according to the latest economic report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Brazil is committed to help Africa build a future of stability and development, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said.
A Syrian military court today sentenced a 79-year-old lawyer and human rights activist, who campaigned for decades for an end to emergency law, to three years in prison on charges of "weakening national morale", defence lawyers said.
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