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Tehelka expose: SC refused to quash proceeding against Bangaru Laxman
A bench headed by Justice AK Ganguly refused to interfere in the proceedings of the lower court, which is conducting the trial in the case, and dismissed the plea of the 72-year-old politician. The court, however, made it clear that it was not making
Updated: 11/22/2011 01:47A
Alleged Belarusian Terrorists On Trial: Any Hope for Justice?
Apparently, the Belarusian system of justice, like its Soviet predecessor, operates by the principle of Stalin's hangman Vyshinsky taking confessions by the accused as its best evidence. In most of the developed countries, the reliability of such
Updated: 11/22/2011 01:47A
Justice without forgetting
Accountability achieved by setting aside basic human rights and legal process is not justice; it is a lynching. And our society is not any better for it. Such lynching will be for sure repeated again in the future, using the same justification of
Updated: 11/22/2011 01:47A
Indisputable facts
Surveying the legal carnage that he had wrought by remote control upon his arrival from Bali, President Noynoy Aquino remarked that justice had been served. Then he disappeared again, probably to resume “monitoring the situation”—the activity that
Updated: 11/22/2011 01:45A
Court OK's hospital arrest; Arroyos challenge charges
He challenged the legality of the joint panel formed by the Justice Department and the Comelec, saying it violated the Constitution's equal-protection clause by singling out certain people and incidents during the 2004 and 2007 elections.
Updated: 11/22/2011 01:45A
Judge taking cautious approach in tea tape case
Justice Helen Winkelmann says if she rules the conversation was public, then it'll give comfort to media organisations that they won't be committing a crime if they further disseminate the material. "My concern is that if I'm going to make public
Updated: 11/22/2011 01:45A
Senators call for speedy trial of Maguindanao massacre cases
This way, Pimentel said, the justice that the victims of the massacre have been denied in the past two years could start to be realized, beginning with the conviction of the alleged masterminds of the mass killings. Lawyer Harry Roque, counsel for the
Updated: 11/22/2011 01:44A
Gates testifies in Microsoft case
Gates was the first witness to testify Monday as Microsoft lawyers presented their case in the trial that's been ongoing in federal court in Salt Lake City for about a month. He is set to resume testimony Tuesday morning. Utah-based Novell Inc. sued
Updated: 11/22/2011 01:44A
Supreme Court declines to block Haugen execution
Dissenting justices Paul De Muniz, Robert Durham and Martha Lee Walters argued that their first ruling required the trial court to hear from a lawyer making the case that Haugen is incompetent. The court's majority — justices Thomas Balmer,
Updated: 11/22/2011 01:41A
Case against accused 'built on quicksand'
Mr Widmer denied any knowledge of Ms Menhennitt's whereabouts after she disappeared at Manly on March 12, 2004, Mr McNamara told the court. He said Cameron Scott, 43, the other man on trial for the murder, could have single-handedly dumped Ms
Updated: 11/22/2011 01:40A
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