Former Assistant US Attorney Richard Convertino and US State Department Regional Secretary Officer Harry Raymond Smith III were indicted before a Detroit federal grand jury Wednesday on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and making false declarations...

Serbian officials Wednesday asked Carla del Ponte , chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to bear in mind the country's "complex political situation" as she arrived in Belgrade for talks two...

United Nations officials and armed peacekeepers took former Liberian President Charles Taylor into custody Wednesday in Monrovia after he was transported to Liberia following his capture by Nigerian officials in an attempt...

Wire services are reporting that a federal judge in Florida has sentenced former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff to five years and 10 months in prison on two conspiracy and fraud charges stemming from falsification of documents...

Johannesburg High Court Judge Willem van der Merwe on Wednesday refused to dismiss rape charges against former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma . The defense filed a motion for dismissal citing a lack of evidence...

The Law Lords , the judicial panel of the UK House of Lords that is Britain's highest court, Wednesday dismissed appeals brought by anti-war protesters who argued that under the Criminal Law Act 1967...

A female Saudi lawyer, Reem al-Habib, received preliminary approval on Wednesday to join the team of lawyers defending Saddam Hussein . Habib, who graduated from Harvard Law School and works in western Saudi Arabia as a corporate...

The Fukuoka district court in Japan on Wednesday dismissed a case brought by 45 Chinese men accusing the Japanese government and two Japanese mining companies of forcing them to work in Japanese coal mines during World...

Leading Wednesday's environmental law news, Norman Mineta, secretary of the US Department of Transportation has announced the final rule changes to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) system, which governs the minimum fuel economy averages for...

Lawyers for two long-time British residents seized by the US and detained at Guantanamo Bay claim to have documents that indicate British officials prompted their arrests while withholding information that would have aided the two men....