'Battle royale' over e. Jerusalem before High Court

Protesters against the bedroom tax gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice in LondonThe High Court has been asked to declare that the Government's so-called "bedroom tax" unlawfully discriminates against disabled people in social housing.New ...

The United States Supreme Court, in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, recently restricted the scope of the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (ATS), a 224-year-old law often used to invoke jurisdiction in suing corporations over human rights ...

An Ontario court ruled last week in favour of the Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company of Canada and Jones Brown Insurance Brokers & Consultants over a liability policy with an organization that spent more than $100,000 defending itself from a ...

Last week, the Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent, ruling unanimously in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., that foreign citizens subjected to human rights abuses in foreign countries cannot sue foreign corporations and individuals in ...

The Royal Court of Justice on the Strand in London, Thursday, threw out an appeal by former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, to have his 13 years jail term for money laundering slashed, citizen journalism website Sahara Reporters is reporting.

In what is going to be a prolonged middle-game in the spot-fixing saga, the ball has landed in the court of Rajasthan Royals. In its emergent working committee meeting, the BCCI empowered the franchisee to initiate action against S Sreesanth, Ankit ...

Some traditional courts in South Africa are not complying with the values enshrined in the Constitution, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said. "What we need to do is to make sure the traditional courts are restructured in such a way as to make them ...

The lord chief justice, the president of the Supreme Court, the master of the rolls, the attorney general and the director of public prosecutions will be leading some 7,000 legal professionals in the largest organised gathering of lawyers in the UK.

The U.S. Supreme Court bolstered Monsanto Co. (MON) The justices unanimously upheld an $84,456 award Monsanto won in a lawsuit against Vernon Hugh Bowman, an Indiana farmer. Rather than buying herbicide-resistant soybean seeds from a ...