Wire services are reporting that former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has died, according to an announcement from a military hospital in Santiago. Pinochet, 91, suffered a major heart attack ...
Case n° 1/9 First/2005, Al-Dujail Lawsuit, Iraqi High Tribunal, November 5, 2006, as translated into English and made available December 3, 2006. Read the full text of the judgment translated into English in six parts via Grotian Moment, the Saddam...
The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Virginia state courts had a constitutional obligation to defer to the rulings of Vermont courts in a child custody dispute involving two lesbian partners who had entered...
A scheduled Saturday meeting of the Lebanese cabinet on the establishment of an international tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri has thrown Lebanon into crisis again even...
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney Friday filed a request with the state's Supreme Judicial Court to put a measure effectively banning same-sex marriage on the 2008 Massachusetts ballot if legislators fail to vote on...
The government of Rwanda cut diplomatic ties with France Friday in protest at a French judge's recommendation that Rwandan President Paul Kagame face trial in connection with the 1994 downing of a plane carrying then-President...
Legal services in the UK are set to be revolutionized after the British government Friday published a much-anticipated bill that would remove the right of the legal profession to regulate itself and would allow other...
Thailand Army Commander-in-Chief General Sonthi Boonyaratglin , the leader of the military coup that deposed civilian prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September, told CNN in an interview broadcast Friday that the...
Italian Minister of Culture Francesco Rutelli has demanded that the Getty Museum in Los Angeles return all the allegedly-looted Italian antiquities it is said to possess, and not just the 26 pieces of a total of 46...
The South African Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that same-sex partners in a permanent relationship have the same inheritance rights as married heterosexual couples , and that a surviving partner could therefore take by intestacy...
