Momentum appears to be growing for the potential reinstatement of dozens of Pakistan appellate judges who were removed from office last year by the country’s president as part of an…
A controversial case concerning an al-Qaida terrorism suspect who has been held in U.S. custody since he was 15 years old is being argued in Canada’s highest court today, where…
An Australian woman who wrote last year about the experience of fighting off a stranger who attacked her on the street says doing so has been enlightening.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision yesterday limiting the reach of international treaties pitted Texas state courts against President Bush and the International Court of Justice.
In his first act as Pakistan’s new prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani today freed the country’s deposed supreme court chief justice and some 60 other jurists from the house arrest…
Once unheard-of, third-party funding is now a standard option for clients bringing suit with the help of London’s top 10 law firms. And, with an expected increase in litigation on…
Updated: Seeking to profit from the current climate of financial uncertainty, unscrupulous traders have allegedly spread false rumors that banks in the United Kingdom are in trouble and then profited…
A former legal assistant with a major Canadian law firm reportedly stole $1.4 million from firm trust accounts over a three-and-a-half-year period by forging attorney signatures and creating falsified checks…
Despite her post-courtroom claims of being pleased with the not quite $50 million divorce settlement she was awarded, Heather Mills doused lawyer Fiona Shackleton, who represents her estranged husband, Paul…
Excepts from a ruling in the divorce case of former Beatle Paul McCartney help show why his estranged wife, Heather Mills, got a little under $50 million. She had reportedly…
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