The increase in the proportion of women and ethnic minorities on the new Queen´s counsel list is something the MoJ should celebrate.
Kenneth I. Starr, the money manager whose clients included actors Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes, was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to defrauding nine celebrities out of $33.3 million.
Julian Assange formally appealed a U.K. ruling that the Australia-born WikiLeaks founder should be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual molestation, his lawyer Mark Stephens said today.
The American Civil Liberties Union - ACLU, the National Women´s Law Center - NWLC and 32 other organizations on Tuesday filed an amicus curiae brief in the US Supreme Court, supporting a class action discrimination lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart.
The Catholic Church in Germany has recommended a sum of 5,000 euros to compensate sexual abuse victims. The church will also contribute extra money to a so-called "prevention fund" and pay for therapy for the victims.
Federal prosecutors have pursued a "massive" investigation of off-label marketing of drugs at GlaxoSmithKline Plc
A major shake-up of the family court procedures in England and Wales comes into effect on 6 April 2011.
Tunisia freed Wednesday the last of its political prisoners under an amnesty granted after the fall president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January, a prisoner rights activist said.
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court said Wednesday they will open a formal investigation into possible crimes against humanity in Libya.
Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti has been shot dead by gunmen who ambushed his car in broad daylight in the capital, Islamabad.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.´s Australian unit failed to advise of the risks of collateralized debt obligations and ignored policies that required municipalities to invest conservatively, a lawyer for towns and councils seeking to recoup investment losses said.
Blockbuster Inc.´s proposed sale benefits a group of lenders at the expense of all other creditors, said objectors including Walt Disney Co., Universal Studios, Yahoo! Inc., the U.S. Trustee´s office, landlords and a committee of unsecured creditors.
In a lively decision that relied as much on dictionaries, grammar and usage as it did on legal analysis, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that corporations have no personal privacy rights for purposes of the Freedom of Information Act.
Egypt´s military has set a vote on constitutional change provisionally for March 19 as a prelude to a parliamentary election in June followed by a presidential poll to usher in full democracy, army sources said on Tuesday.
The European Union´s high court ruled Tuesday that insurers and pension plans cannot offer different contracts for men and women because that amounts to sex discrimination.
Benedict XVI has promulgated a new "Law concerning citizenship, residency and access" to Vatican City.
A federal judge has ruled that a class action lawsuit against Massachusetts alleging the abuse and neglect of thousands of children in state care can proceed.
Galician authorities say they will not interfere in latest Muslim headscarf controversy.
Fashion designer John Galliano has faced his accusers at a local Paris police station, a couple who said he made anti-Semitic slurs - illegal in France - after a video emerged of the creator praising Adolf Hitler.
A new police law coming into force Tuesday will give officers the right to take down web sites without a court order, media reported — although industry representatives said police can already do that under existing legislation.
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