The Liberian Supreme Court ruled Friday that former interim Liberian President Gyude Bryant can stand trial on embezzlement charges. Bryant was charged in February with embezzling $1.3 million during his tenure from October 2003 until...

US Bankruptcy Judge Louise DeCarl Adler ordered 42 clergy sex abuse cases against the Catholic Diocese of San Diego to go to trial Friday, accepting arguments by plaintiffs lawyers that the move could push pressure on the...

Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej formally signed the country's new constitution into law Friday. The constitution, put forward by the military-backed interim government, was approved in a national referendum last week....

A US judge Friday refused to reject a French extradition request for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to face charges of money laundering through French banks. Noriega and his wife were sentenced in absentia to...

The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced a Bosnian Serb former reserve policeman to 12 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian civil war. Nenad...

An investigating judge who was to be transferred from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to serve as the head of Cambodia's Appeals Court will still remain on the ECCC, filling...

US military lawyers appearing at the first sitting of the new US Court of Military Commission Review Friday urged the court to overturn a ruling dropping charges against Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [JURIST news...

James Ford Seale , alleged to have been a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) , was sentenced to three life sentences Friday for his role in the kidnapping and death of two 19-year old...

A UK judge Thursday ordered British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to hold off deportations of failed asylum seekers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) pending a determination by an Asylum and Immigration...

US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has confirmed that telecommunications companies have provided vital cooperation to the warrantless domestic wiretapping program , the New York Times reported Friday. In an interview with the...