The Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled Tuesday that Section 95 of the Criminal Code , which established a three-year minimum sentence for the possession of an unlicensed firearm and a five-year minimum sentence [text,...
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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in three cases. In Rosemond v. United States the court heard arguments on whether the offense of aiding and abetting the use...
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Tuesday indicted Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader ATM Azharul Islam on six charges of crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War. Azharul, who is now...
The Council of Europe on Tuesday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to extend preliminary reforms of the judicial system of the Russian Federation in order to strengthen the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. The...
A federal judge on Monday recommended that e-mails and other data collected by a large due-diligence firm for Wall Street banks should be turned over to the Department of Justice (DOJ) , a move that may determine which...
The Thailand Senate rejected a bill on Monday that may have provided amnesty for crimes committed by self-exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra . The senate rejected the bill 141-0 after the Thai...
Egypt's Middle East News Agency (MENA) announced on Monday that Judge Hisham Genina and two journalists will be prosecuted for allegedly insulting other judges. Genina gave an interview to Moammed el-Sanhouri, a reporter for Al-Masry Al-Youm daily...
Syed Mohammad Qaisar, Bangladesh's former state minister for agriculture, was charged on Sunday with 18 war crimes for acts allegedly committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Charges were formally filed with the International Crimes Tribunal...
The political action group Privacy for all Students said Sunday that they have received sufficient petition signatures to bring about an initiative on the November 2014 ballot to repeal California's new law intended to protect transgender...
One of the defense lawyers for imprisoned former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was detained by police Monday, according to Arseniy Yatsenyuk an MP for Tymoshenko's All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" [party website; in...
