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Scottish police charged Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP), on Thursday in connection with the alleged embezzlement of funds from the SNP. Murrell is also the husband of former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon. A report on the matter will now be sent to the to the Crown Office and Procurator [...]

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak filed a judicial review application to the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Wednesday seeking an addendum order from former King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, according to reports from local media. The order would allow Najib to serve his six-year sentence under house arrest. Najib claimed in his [...]

Former trade advisor to former US President Donald Trump Peter Navarro is set to begin his prison sentence Tuesday after Chief Justice John Roberts denied his motion to delay upon appeal Monday. In response to the denial, Navarro stated: Justice Roberts took care to note that his reason for denial was “distinct from pending appeal [...]

A federal district judge found the city of Flint, Michigan in contempt for its failure to finish the replacement of lead-contaminated pipes in the city’s water supply system according to a timeline laid out in a 2023 court order. The order, released Tuesday, granted a motion from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) which sought to [...]

Alexei Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said on Saturday that the Russian opposition leader was “murdered” and demanded that Navalny’s body be “handed over to his family immediately.” His death was formally announced by Russia’s state prison service on Friday, which said that he had lost consciousness and could not be resuscitated. Navalny was a prominent [...]

JURIST Editorial Director Ingrid Burke Friedman and JURIST Assistant Editor Samara Baboolal contributed to this report. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ordered Israel to implement a set of provisional measures aimed at preventing the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as Israel appears to be preparing a ground invasion of Rafah. [...]

A DC federal judge indefinitely postponed the trial date in former US President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan vacated the trial date, originally set for March 4, since both parties are still awaiting a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Trump’s claim of [...]

A federal court in Washington DC sentenced former trade advisor to former US President Donald Trump, Peter Navarro, on Thursday on two counts of contempt of Congress related to the January 6 insurrection to four months prison. Navarro was previously found guilty of the two counts following a September 2023 jury trial in the Federal [...]

The Indian Supreme Court (SC) reduced Friday a sentence in a criminal contempt of court case by the Delhi High Court (DHC) against a lawyer, Virendra Singh, over his remarks against the judges of the DHC. The lawyer was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of 2,000 rupees. The SC, in [...]

The federal judge overseeing former US President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington DC refused on Thursday to hold the lead prosecutor in contempt. Trump had sought to hold Special Counsel Jack Smith in contempt for continuing to file documents with the trial court after Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a stay on any [...]