Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers said Thursday that there may be applications of Sharia law in the British legal system during a speech ...
US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad submitted a draft resolution in the UN Security Council Thursday calling for sanctions against Zimbabwe's newly reinstalled president Robert Mugabe and eleven...
Former Cambodian Foreign Minister Ieng Sary is set to appeal his provisional detention in a June 30 open hearing to be broadcast on radio and TV stations, according to documents [scheduling order, PDF;...
US firearm ownership advocacy groups filed lawsuits in Chicago and San Francisco late this week seeking to overturn laws which ban handguns within the cities. The lawsuits were filed within a day of the US Supreme Court...
Banu Altunbasof, the Sudan head of international aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) , was ejected from the country's Darfur region Thursday, after authorities said that she blocked state investigations into alleged MSF transgressions. The...
A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of California Wednesday granted a motion to enforce a previous settlement agreement between two social networking websites, Facebook and ConnectU ....
The Italian judge presiding over the corruption trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his former lawyer David Mills said Friday accord to Reuters that hearings in the case will continue...
Serbian officials transferred former Bosnian Serb police commander Stojan Zupljanin to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Saturday after the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court...
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled 6-1 Friday that juvenile defendants in the state have a constitutional right to a jury trial. The Court found that recent changes to the Kansas Juvenile Justice Code [PDF...
Several Bolivian opposition groups have said that the nation's new constitution is illegitimate, alleging that supporters of Bolivian President Evo Morales used legal loopholes to rush its approval. An International Crisis Group [official...
