5 h. ago Lockerbie bombing trial delayed after US judge upholds lawyer requests

Abu Agila Masud was due to go on trial in Washington in May.

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5 h. ago Lockerbie bombing trial delayed by US judge, as new court date left unconfirmed

A trial linked to the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie has been delayed

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6 h. ago Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte appears by video link in Hague accused of crimes against humanity – live

Duterte faces charges over his years-long campaign against drug users and dealers that rights groups say killed tens of thousandsThe people who bought ex-president Duterte to justicePhilippine ex-president Rodrigo Duterte is appearing by video link before judges at the international criminal court.Duterte would follow the proceedings through a video link, a court spokesperson said.To some Duterte’s arrest this week came as a sudden shock. But for years many brave Filipinos, from priests, politicians, pathologists, to relatives of the victims and journalists, have worked tirelessly, in and out of the spotlight, to expose the horrors of the deadly campaign and collect enough evidence to hold Duterte to account. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Court shock as man who paid twins' child maintenance for 16 years is told he was never their legal father

A man who paid child maintenance for twins for 16 years has won a court battle to stop the payments - after a judge found his name was put on their birth certificate by mistake.

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26 h. ago Judge orders Trump administration to reinstate most fired probationary staff

Ruling by California judge applies to thousands of employees dismissed from six federal agenciesA federal judge in California granted a preliminary injunction to reinstate thousands of fired probationary workers at federal agencies as part of a lawsuit filed by the American Federation of Government Employees.The ruling by the judge William H Alsup in the US district court for the northern district of California applies to fired probationary employees at the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior and the Department of the Treasury. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Trump’s plans dealt another blow in court as federal judge orders fired probationary employees be rehired

Probationary employees in six government departments were fired in February.

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32 h. ago Sara Sharif's father should be locked up for whole life, Court of Appeal judges told

Sara Sharif’s father Urfan Sharif should be locked up for the rest of his life, judges have been told.

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38 h. ago Judge orders DOGE to turn over top secret records and demands Musk justify mass federal layoffs

On Wednesday, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan turned the tables on DOGE three weeks after Musk's 'what did you do last week' email to staffers sparked mass protests.

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49 h. ago High court judge approval for assisted dying cases scrapped by MPs

Kim Leadbeater, the MP behind the terminal ill adults bill, has proposed that a panel of experts decide on assisted deaths instead of courts

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49 h. ago Rapist weeps in court as judge jails him for 'horrible' attack on a sleeping woman in a Travelodge hotel

James Cox attacked his victim after he had binged on alcohol and cocaine

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49 h. ago Fury at 'weakening' of assisted dying safeguards as MPs vote to remove High Court judge's oversight of requests to die

Members of a committee scrutinising the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill were accused of broken promises after voting to remove a key clause.

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51 h. ago MPs’ committee votes to scrap High Court judge approval in assisted dying Bill

Proposals have been made to instead establish expert panels of senior legal figures, psychiatrists and social workers to decide on applications.

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52 h. ago Harvey Weinstein appears in court as judge weighs key rulings for his looming #MeToo retrial

Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo retrial next month will largely be an abridged version of the original, with one big addition: a charge based on an allegation from a woman who wasn’t a part of the first case

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54 h. ago Irish billionaire business partner of U2's Bono is convicted of attacking a woman in his £30m Paris apartment

The 70-year-old tycoon, who owns a whisky distillery in Ireland with U2 frontman Bono, was not in court in the French capital on Wednesday as judgement was handed down against him

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57 h. ago Woman who was declared dead appears during court probate row saying 'I'm very much alive'

A long-running probate wrangle was upended after the 'dead' woman – Nigerian-born June Ashimola – gave evidence in the High Court in London and told a judge that she was alive

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69 h. ago Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution halted by federal judge

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving forward with the execution of Jesse Hoffman Jr

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3 d. ago Stacey Dooley says she wouldn't go to the police if she was raped: 'It's so bleak'

She is fronting the BBC documentary Rape On Trial, which covers the delays to court cases

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3 d. ago Stacey Dooley admits she wouldn't go to the police if she was raped: 'It's so bleak and such a disappointing realisation'

The TV presenter, 38, is fronting the new BBC documentary Rape On Trial, which covers the delays to court cases and waiting times for victims of alleged rape and sexual assault.

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3 d. ago Fraudster plotted to seize woman's London home by falsely claiming she had died, High Court judge rules

A High Court judge concluded fraud and forged documents had been used to try to seize control of the property

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3 d. ago Stacey Dooley: I had bleak realisation I don’t think I would report if raped

She is fronting the BBC documentary Rape On Trial, which covers the delays to court cases.

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