Court upholds earlier ruling that a post directed at Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi was unlawful.
A South Korean court on Monday sentenced former president Yoon Suk-yeol to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, after finding him guilty of violating the election law by making false statements during his 2022 presidential campaign. The sentence, if upheld through appeals, could force Yoon’s People Power Party to return 39.7 billion won (US$27.1 million) in election expenses reimbursed by the National Election Commission following his presidential election victory. The Seoul...
One Nation leader loses bid to overturn ruling that she racially discriminated against Senator Mehreen Faruqi.
The 'Farmgate' scandal nearly cost President Cyril Ramaphosa the leadership of his African National Congress in 2022.
A South Korean court on Friday ordered SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to pay his former wife Roh Soh-yeong 944 billion won (US$644 million) in a divorce-related property division case, lower than a previous 1.38 trillion won award that had drawn scrutiny of his stake in the group’s holding company. If finalised, the ruling from the Seoul High Court would be South Korea’s most expensive divorce ever. Chey is worth about US$5.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with his...
Palakkad Additional District and Sessions Court - IV holds that the case falls under the ‘rarest of rare’ category
A 20-year-old woman from central China who served as a bridesmaid had one of her vertebrae fractured and became seriously disabled after a prank activity at a wedding. A court in Ruyang county, in Henan province, released its verdict on the case to the public in early July, aiming to raise awareness of the controversial wedding revelry, news portal gmw.cn reported. As part of nuptial ceremonies, wedding hazing, called hun nao in Chinese, dates back thousands of years, originally being intended...
In a series of decisive judgments, a special court in Kalaburagi handed a 25-year jail term to a prime accused for rape, while sentencing two other youths to three years of imprisonment each for abducting and sexually harassing the same 12-year-old survivor.
Considering the convicted doctor’s age, the court reduces his sentence in the 17-year-old case to ₹5,000 in default of imprisonment for two months
A former law student has been jailed for nearly three years for taking part in a riot during the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong, after a judge overturned her acquittal and found her guilty based on “overwhelming” circumstantial evidence. Alice Tong Ka-yan, 27, was sentenced at the District Court on Wednesday to two years and 10 months’ imprisonment for rioting. Her lawyers had said in mitigation that she had acted under peer influence and the prevailing social atmosphere. Judge...
The court acknowledged the need for a broader national debate on cannabis policy in Kenya.
Top court bars former President Jair Bolsonaro's son from visiting his father under house arrest over social media post.
The judge said the suit was brought for 'improper purposes' and referred a Trump attorney for possible disciplinary action.
A legal ruling in China holding three individuals liable for the death of a friend following overnight drinking and gaming has ignited widespread online discussion. Three men in Urumqi, in northwestern China, were ordered by the court to compensate their friend’s family a total of over 100,000 yuan (US$15,000), after he died partying with them all night. The man, surnamed Gao, played mahjong with his two friends and the mahjong parlour’s owner, from almost 9pm to 3am the next day, in October...
Trump’s name was removed from the centre's facade and signage last month, after a judge ordered its removal.
A French court ruling has reopened Marine Le Pen’s path to the 2027 presidential election.
Within hours of a court of appeal confirming a guilty verdict, Marine Le Pen had already launched her presidential campaign.
All charges against a radiologist accused of trying to kill his family in 2023 by driving his car off a cliff along the Northern California coast have been dismissed by a judge following his completion of a mental health programme. Prosecutors charged Dharmesh Patel, 45, with attempted murder after he drove his Tesla off a 276-metre (50ft) cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway known as “Devil’s Slide,” injuring his wife and two young children. All four survived the January 2, 2023, crash in what...
A French appeal court on Tuesday upheld Marine Le Pen’s conviction for misusing EU funds but shortened her ban on running for public office, in theory preserving a path for the far-right leader to run in the 2027 presidential election. However, the court also sentenced Le Pen to a three-year jail term: two suspended and one with an electronic ankle tag. This would make a presidential campaign politically and logistically difficult, and casts doubt on whether she will in fact continue to seek...
Paris appeals court rules Le Pen guilty of misusing public funds but reduces the ban on her holding public office.
As The Gambia's Supreme Court prepares to rule on the FGM ban, mothers fear the law could be weakened.
"When a wife refers to her husband that 'she can keep thousand husbands like him' it is indirect/oblique reference to worthlessness of the husband, meaning he has no value as a human being or a husband; therefore, it can be turned as a sudden and grave provocation"
A Hong Kong court has awarded more than HK$251,000 to the family of a domestic helper who was dismissed by her employer in 2019 after being diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer and later died. The years-long legal battle involving the late helper, Baby Jane Allas, came to an end on Friday when the District Court ordered her former employer, Jamil Bushra, to pay damages. Bushra had fired Allas in February 2019 while she was on medical leave. Bushra, who was absent throughout the proceedings,...
The court dismissed a law student’s petition challenging the exemption, ruling that it does not violate Article 14 of the Constitution
A court order requiring Japan’s government to compensate the family of a Peruvian man who sustained a broken arm at an immigration facility has intensified scrutiny of the country’s detention system, with rights experts saying the case shows reforms are urgently needed. On June 25, the Osaka High Court ordered the government to pay 880,000 yen (US$5,400) in damages to the family of Vladimir Burgos Fujii, a Peruvian man of Japanese descent, who was injured while being restrained at the facility...
Court orders substantial monetary compensation to be paid to the victim to aid her rehabilitation
Justices N. Anand Venkatesh and K.K. Ramakrishnan say imposing only life sentence would send a devastating message to the community that the soul of a child is cheap and that a monster could trade the lifelong peace of the victims for the comfort a prison cell