Ever had that sinking feeling that the person your friend is marrying is perfectly awful?
France´s competition authority has fined 11 French banks 384.9m euros ($504m; £323m) for colluding to fix the price they charge for handling cheques.
Justice for vulnerable clients can be frustrated when lawyers are not up to the job.
Watch out, juris doctor. The master of laws is coming up.
A Palestinian court in Jerusalem ruled Thursday that selling land to Israel was a capital offense.
The armed Basque separatist group ETA on Sunday offered to meet with international mediators to discuss ways to end decades of violence, according to a statement issued two weeks after the group declared a unilateral cease-fire.
She is a former Marxist guerrilla whose organisation once stole $2.5 million from the safe of the governor of São Paulo.
Passengers on a Qantas flight from Singapore to Perth that twice plunged hundreds of metres - injuring more than 100 people - will sue manufacturer Airbus over a computer malfunction that caused the mishap.
"What does a federal deputy do? Truly, I don´t know. But vote for me and I will find out for you."
A civil lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages from the nation´s largest tobacco companies will be heard in a Manatee County courtroom this week and could be a bellwether case for other smokers who claim cigarettes caused their cancers and that manufacturers should be held liable.
With strict European legislation due to come into force next April, will some age-old herbal remedies on sale in health food stores today become, quite literally, a thing of the past?
Research shows that these meetings between victims and offenders cut crime.
At one of the most stressful periods of their lives, separating couples are driven to the poorhouse by a family law system that fails to deliver workable solutions while their children are often hurt by a system that doesn´t take their opinions into account, a report by the Law Commission of Ontario says.
Many advocates of Web freedom were convinced that Craigslist hadn´t really surrendered. They were certain that the website only appeared to have thrown in the towel last week in its long-running legal battle over the ads that appeared on its pages under the heading "adult services."
Thai mobile-phone companies slumped in Bangkok trading after a court issued an injunction to stop an auction of licenses to provide high-speed mobile-phone services.
An attorney who hurled "hostile, obscene and derogatory" missives at his wife and professionals involved in their divorce, has been suspended for two years by the Appellate Division, 1st Department, which rejected a three-year censure requested by court´s disciplinary staff.
A judge in Hattiesburg, Mississippi today threw out the guilty pleas of two men who had spent three decades in prison for rape and murder after DNA tests showed they were innocent. The decision comes too late, however, for a third man who died in prison eight years ago.
Investments guarantee Chinese access to soy, oil and other badly needed resources.
Cambodia´s UN-backed war crimes tribunal has indicted four former Khmer Rouge leaders.
Russia and Norway signed a deal Wednesday that defines their maritime border, settling a long-running dispute that has affected commercial fishing and energy interests.
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