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Another view: A step forward in Serbia
Ratko Mladic, the brutal Bosnian Serb army commander who is accused of overseeing the siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of 8000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, was seized in an early-morning raid on Thursday, just before the arrival in
Updated: 05/30/2011 01:07P
Scales of justice
Supreme Court Justice Ben Taylor ordered the accused to make restitution. Robertson had $10000 of the amount owing in court Monday. She pledged to pay the balance owing by the end of November. The court was told Robertson had become addicted to
Updated: 05/30/2011 01:07P
Murder charge filed vs 3 men
Charged before the Davao City Regional Trial Court branch 14 were Jose Besera, Ruden Labe, and another unidentified suspect. The three suspects have remained at large. Prosecutor Serafica Justiniani-Weis has found probable cause to hold the three
Updated: 05/30/2011 01:07P
Silvio Berlusconi's Government faces collapse as he suffers crushing local
Berlusconi, 74, is currently involved in four trials with charges ranging from having sex with an underage prostitute to corruption and perverting the course of justice. Consequently the mayoral elections were seen as a test of his popularity and exit
Updated: 05/30/2011 01:06P
Ex-CA justice dies; 72
Chief Justice Renato Corona who attended the wake Sunday with wife Cristina described Maambong as a “great and brilliant man and a big loss to the legal circle.” “He was a great man. A constitutionalist, an election expert and a great jurist,
Updated: 05/30/2011 01:06P
Can't defend Hafiz Saeed in US lawsuit: Pak govt
Lahore: The Pakistan government on Monday informed a court that it could not defend Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in a US lawsuit filed by relatives of two Jewish victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Deputy Attorney General Naseem
Updated: 05/30/2011 01:06P
Can't defend Hafiz in US lawsuit: Pak govt to court
Deputy Attorney General Naseem Kashmiri, in a written reply submitted on behalf of Foreign Ministry to Justice Umar Ata Bandial of the Lahore High Court, said: "The government is defending the ISI before the US court being an institute of the
Updated: 05/30/2011 01:06P
Silvio Berlusconi¿s Government faces collapse as he suffers crushing local
Berlusconi, 74, is currently involved in four trials with charges ranging from having sex with an underage prostitute to corruption and perverting the course of justice. Consequently the mayoral elections were seen as a test of his popularity and exit
Updated: 05/30/2011 01:05P
Sarah Palin kicks off East Coast bus tour riding a Harley
And on her hand, the words "justice rolls" were written in smeared ink. It was an apparent reference to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, which is quoted on Palin's website: "We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters
Updated: 05/30/2011 01:04P
Power is right to shake up legal aid
Justice Minister Simon Power's legal aid reforms were a considered and moderate response to a massive increase in costs and a review that raised serious concerns about quality and widespread rorts. Legal aid spending was set to mushroom from $111
Updated: 05/30/2011 01:03P