The federal judiciary has approved a pilot program that will allow the public to download free audio recordings of court proceedings over the internet. US District Judge Thomas F. Hogan , executive committee chairman of the policy-making Judicial Conference...

Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers in business suits clashed with police Saturday, throwing rocks after riot police fired teargas to disrupt a gathering to protest the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry . The clash took...

African Union chairman Alpha Oumar Konare Saturday urged Zimbabwe to "respect human rights and democratic principles" in the wake of this week's arrest and alleged abuse of opposition leader and presidential hopeful Morgan...

US senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) , both of whom watched last weekend's Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing at Guantanamo Bay for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , insisted in a...

A US military court-martial found 101st Airborne Staff Sgt. Raymond Girouard guilty of three counts of negligent homicide Friday, but not guilty of premeditated murder for the deaths of three Iraqi detainees [JURIST news...

The European Commission (EC) plans to develop a common fingerprint database that includes data collected from criminals convicted of serious crimes within member states, a spokesperson announced Friday. EC spokesperson Ana-Paula Laiss denied claims made in the...

Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar filed a lawsuit Friday against the Nigerian electoral commission after it issued a ruling Thursday prohibiting him from running in the upcoming April presidential. The commission cited...

British coroner Andrew Walker ruled Friday that a US A-10 tank-buster "friendly fire" attack on a UK troop convoy that killed UK soldier Matty Hull "amounted to an assault. It was unlawful because there was...

Judges appointed to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) reached an agreement Friday on the most pressing points of contention over the Khmer Rouge genocide trial rules ...

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame testified before the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Friday that the White House and US Department of State "carelessly and recklessly" blew her cover in an effort...