Ten men have gone to trial so far in Sudan on charges of rape and robbery in the troubled Darfur region , according to the head of Sudan's special court , which began proceedings last Saturday. The Sudanese court was formed by the national Sudanese government after the UN Security Council asked the International Criminal [...]

Court of First Instance President Bo Vesterdorf is planning to move the Microsoft EU antitrust case from the current panel headed by Judge Hubert Legal to a panel headed by himself. The proposed change comes after Judge Legal published an article in the French journal Concurrences in which he referred to some of the judges' [...]

Former President Bill Clinton said in a Financial Times interview published Monday that the US government should "close down or clean up" Guantanamo Bay prison . On the weekend leading GOP Senator John McCain also pressed for change if not closure, urging the United States to try the hundreds of detainees being held at the [...]

Medecins San Frontieres said Monday that the Sudanese government has dropped charges against two aid workers accused of publishing false information in a report detailing widespread rape in the volatile Darfur region. The group received word Sunday that the charges were dropped when a notice was issued by the Sudanese Justice Ministry stating that no [...]

A federal court in Burlington, Vermont is expected to hear opening statements Monday in the first death-penalty case in the state since 1957. Vermont does not have a death penalty but Donald Fell was charged under a federal capital murder law after abducting one of his victims, Terry King, in Vermont before later killing her [...]

With many predicting a retirement announcement from current Chief Justice William Rehnquist when the US Supreme Court's current term ends June 27, advisors to President Bush are said to be concentrating on three possible replacements: Judge John Roberts of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals , Judge J. Micheal Luttig of the US Fourth [...]

Former Bosnia Serb General Ratko Mladic , who has been indicted for war crimes, has agreed to turn himself over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , in exchange for $5 million for his family and associates, according to the London Sunday Times. Mladic has been in hiding for 10 years, since [...]

Ali Hassan al-Majid, otherwise known in Western media as "Chemical Ali" , was questioned Thursday by an Iraqi tribunal preparing for the trials of the leaders of Saddam Hussein's regime. The Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) released the tape publicly on Sunday. It was the third tape related to tribunal questioning released by the IST this [...]

Charges will not be brought against a US Army captain for allegedly ordering his subordinates to kill Iraqi insurgents in retaliation for an attack on a US base, the Army announced Friday. Captain Michael Cunningham was facing possible charges of solicitation of murder and involuntary manslaughter, but following the acquittal of one of Cunningham's subordinates [...]

An announcement allowing limited use of cameras in the UK Court of Appeal is expected shortly, according to an article in the Sunday Times. The decision to televise appellate proceedings comes after a six week pilot program and a government consultation paper on court broadcasting. The appeal of a former city council leader from a [...]