French Justice Minister Rachida Dati pressed a bill to toughen the country's criminal code in an appearance before the National Assembly Tuesday. The bill, which fulfills a campaign...
A suicide bomber struck a lawyers' protest over the ousting of suspended Pakistan Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in Islamabad Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding at least 40. Chaudhry was...
Sources close to Libya's Supreme Judiciary Council told the Associated Press Tuesday that the death sentences of six foreign medics accused of knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients with the HIV virus have been...
Some members of the European Parliament criticized Swiss Senator Dick Marty Tuesday for failing to cite sources in his June report to the Parliamentary Assembly of the...
Russia's Constitutional Court Monday upheld a 2004 law requiring certified political parties to have at least 50,000 members. The decision upheld a May Supreme Court ruling that...
Judge Haley Fromholz of the Los Angeles Superior Court Monday approved a $660 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and plaintiffs in 508 outstanding clergy sex abuse lawsuits [JURIST...
Lawyers and human rights advocates called for more rigid procedures governing the investigation of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines at a Monday conference organized by the Supreme Court of the Philippines . Edelina dela Paz, chairwoman...
A bipartisan group of 44 former US state attorneys general have asked the US House and Senate Judiciary Committees to investigate whether the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (D) , was politically motivated,...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that spouses and unmarried partners of women who face inhumane treatment under rigid Chinese population control measures do not automatically qualify for asylum in...
A former Rwandan mayor Friday pleaded guilty to a single count of extermination , a crime against humanity, as part of a plea deal International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda that eliminated eight other charges including genocide,...
