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Legal team launches website to defend Harvard law student accused of sexual assault

Edit The Boston Globe 04 Dec 2015
Winston’s legal team argues that the film’s portrayal is unfair ... ....

Change of guard: Justice Tirath Singh Thakur is now the 43rd Chief Justice of India

Edit Deccan Chronicle 04 Dec 2015
Senior most Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was on Thursday sworn-in as the 43rd Chief Justice of India by the President Pranab Mukherjee at a brief function held at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan ... Advani, law officers, senior lawyers and family members of Justice Thakur. Justice Thakur became a Judge of High Court of J&K ......

Justice cracks down on soccer league

Edit Topix 04 Dec 2015
Hours after two high-ranking FIFA officials were arrested in Zurich by Swiss officials, the U.S. Justice Department has charged 16 more. Of the 16 men indicted on for racketeering conspiracy and corruption charges were five current and former members of the international soccer league's ruling executive committee ... ....

Taliban Gets Life in Prison for Attacking US, Afghan Forces - Justice Dept

Edit Sputnik 04 Dec 2015
The US Department of Justice announced that former Russian army tank commander Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin was sentenced to life in prison and 30 more years for leading a Taliban group to attack US and Afghan soldiers ... ....

Mirfield Free Grammar school facing 'outside prayers' legal row

Edit BBC News 04 Dec 2015
A school may face legal action from a group of sixth form students who claim they have been forced to pray outside ... A solicitor representing the pupils and families said the next step depended on the school's further response.'Grass verge'. Yunus Lunat said. "It's a management issue ... Mr Lunat said he believed there was a case he could take to court "otherwise I wouldn't be here, we wouldn't be doing this" ... ....

Refugee crisis: Sweden considering new law allowing 'emergency' closure of Øresund Bridge to Denmark

Edit The Independent 04 Dec 2015
The Swedish government is drawing up a law that would allow it to stop traffic across the famous Øresund Bridge connecting it to Denmark as the refugee crisis continues. A proposal, which has not yet been finalised, would be part of new legislation bringing in compulsory identity checks on all public transport entering Sweden as part of efforts to reduce the number of asylum seekers arriving ... ....

Jury mulls case of Arizona couple accused of imprisoning girls

Edit Toronto Sun 04 Dec 2015
- A jury in Arizona was deliberating on Thursday the fate of a mother and stepfather accused of holding three girls in prison-like conditions, regularly beating them, depriving them of sleep, and subjecting them to strange rituals ... Sophia Richter's attorney, Leo Plowman, urged the jury to consider lesser charges for her, saying "very little" of the girls' testimony mentioned their mother....

Fargo Grocery Store Employees Sentenced for Defrauding Food Stamp Program (United States Attorney's Office for ...

Edit Public Technologies 04 Dec 2015
(Source. United States Attorney's Office for the District of North Dakota). FARGO - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Dec ... S. District Judge Ralph R ... These benefits may not be used to obtain cash ... Assistant U. S. Attorney Jennifer Puhl prosecuted the case ... This content was issued by United States Attorney's Office for the District of North Dakota on the 2015-12-03 and was initially posted on www.justice.gov/usao/nd ... (noodl....

Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder after appeals court overturns trial verdict

Edit Topix 04 Dec 2015
A South African appeals court has convicted Paralympian Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning an earlier conviction of manslaughter for shooting his girlfriend to death in 2013 . He insisted he thought she was an intruder behind a door in his home ... ....

South African appeals court to rule on Pistorius

Edit Topix 04 Dec 2015
An official says a top South African appeals court is final... The prison cell in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec ... JOHANNESBURG - A South African appeals court was expected to rule Thursday on whether to overturn a manslaughter conviction against Oscar Pistorius and find the double-amputee Olympian guilty of the more serious charge of murder for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp ... ....

South African appeals court convicts Pistorius of murder

Edit Topix 04 Dec 2015
A South African appeals court on Thursday convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning a lower court's conviction of the double-amputee Olympian ... Justice Lorimer Eric Leach of the Supreme Court of Appeal delivered the ruling by the five-judge tribunal in Bloemfontein and directed the trial court, the North Gauteng High Court, to impose sentence....

Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson jumps into court debate over Gollum's character

Edit Topix 04 Dec 2015
Director Peter Jackson has intervened in a court debate over whether Lord Of The Rings character Gollum is good or bad. A Turkish court overseeing the case of a doctor accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled that a committee of experts must provide an assessment of Gollum's character ... ....

Gollum meme lands man in court facing jail

Edit Topix 04 Dec 2015
A Turkish judge must decide if Gollum, the character from "The Lord of the Rings" films, is a good guy or a villain. Bilgin Ciftci, a Turkish doctor, stands accused of sharing a meme that compared Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Gollum, The Telegraph reported ... ....
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