Latest Trial Court News
NZ Company Ordered to pay $4.5 million in Ponzi Scheme
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has obtained an order of default judgment against Jeffery Alan Lowrance and his NZ-based company 'First Capital Savings and Loan' for $US 4.5 million; $US 3.3 as civil monetary penalty
Updated: 11/11/2011 11:19P
Law firm says all eyes on Missouri's punitive damages cap
Of course, the Court has many options,” she says, including: - It could decide to avoid the constitutional punitive damages issue altogether and find that Franklin did not violate the MMPA. - It could affirm the trial court's rulings and reduced award
Updated: 11/11/2011 11:17P
Uganda: Court Rejects Bad Black's Sureties
She wants the High Court to quash the ruling of the Chief Magistrate Irene Akankwasa and be released pending trial. In her affidavits, Bad Black stated that her breasts are swollen and that she cannot access proper medication from prison.
Updated: 11/11/2011 11:14P
Hariri Saga
The STL is the only international court that has a mandate to try suspects in absentia, and if it does it would be the first such occurrence since the post-WWII Nazi trials at Nuremberg, Roux said. A prosecutor earlier told a five-judge bench a trial
Updated: 11/11/2011 11:14P
Aussie boy, family wept as sentence requested
As she read out the sentence request, Srigati also told the court Indonesia's tough anti-drugs stance must be respected, but that the boy's age was also taken into account as a leniency factor. The teenager, who was on holidays with his family when he
Updated: 11/11/2011 11:12P
India SC 'shocked' by Pakistanis in jail
New Delhi—India's Supreme Court expressed shock on Friday that more than 250 Pakistanis were being held in Indian jails without ever having faced trial, with at least one behind bars since 1965. The court, hearing a public interest case filed by a
Updated: 11/11/2011 11:02P
Indian cellular scam Ex-minister among 17 put on trial
The trial opened at a special court in New Delhi with statements from a prosecution witness.Former telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja, two ministry officials and several telecom company managers are accused of criminal conspiracy and causing the huge
Updated: 11/11/2011 11:02P
SHC permits Afaq to fight his own cases
Prosecutor told the court that Afaq Ahmad had not been arrested in the under trial current case. At this, the court asked from where the new case did appear. Justice Maqbool Baqar commented that the issues should not be taken easy, with the direction
Updated: 11/11/2011 11:02P
Court stops Zamboanga bus terminal rebidding
The Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 17 yesterday issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against the re-bidding for the construction of the Integrated Bus Terminal (IBT) in barangay Divisoria, this city. Acting on the Special Civil Action case
Updated: 11/11/2011 11:01P
'Transfer case to deliver justice'
The victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots on Friday approached a Delhi court seeking that the trial of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar be conducted before the same judge who had earlier been hearing the case and was transferred to another court after being
Updated: 11/11/2011 11:00P