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Ex-BBC presenters guilty of sex offences

June 9, 2017 World Justice News 0

Two former BBC radio presenters have been found guilty of indecently assaulting under-age boys in the 1990s. Husband and wife Tony and Julie Wadsworth were found guilty by a majority verdict of encouraging boys to […]

Comey: Trump administration’s comments were “lies plain and simple”

June 8, 2017 World Justice News 0

Ex-FBI chief James Comey told Congress that the Trump administration’s comments about him and the FBI were “lies plain and simple”. Mr Comey told a Senate committee they were wrong to denigrate the agency and […]

Charlie Gard: Parents’ appeal for US treatment bid fails

June 8, 2017 World Justice News 0

The UK Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the parents of sick baby Charlie Gard, over plans to take him to the US for treatment. Chris Gard and Connie Yates want the 10-month old, […]

At the Bill Cosby trial, ‘Canada’s Mom’ slays ‘America’s Dad’

June 8, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

Everyone expected Andrea Constand to be the star witness Wednesday at Commonwealth v. William H. Cosby, Jr. And certainly Constand, who took the stand in a bright white jacket, the same hue associated with sexual […]

Rights group asks Germany to arrest CIA deputy director Gina Haspel

June 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

The nonprofit European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights submitted a legal brief to German federal prosecutors Tuesday, alleging that Gina Haspel allowed the waterboarding of prisoners at a secret U.S. detention center in Thailand. […]

Japanese fugitive on the run for 45 years is arrested

June 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

For one suspected murderer in Japan, it has been a case of being able to run but not being able to hide. Left-wing revolutionary Masaaki Osaka has been arrested and charged for murdering a police […]

Outrage after rapist jailed with victim

June 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

Canadian officials have expressed outrage over the case of a homeless woman who was jailed after being raped and kept in prison with her attacker. The indigenous woman, who is not being named, was brutally […]

Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law jailed

June 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law has been jailed for six months for conspiring to hack a computer system relating to the celebrity chef’s business interests. Christopher Hutcheson, 68, and his sons Adam, 46, and Christopher, 37, admitted […]

Bill Cosby’s accusers are already under attack at his trial

June 6, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

You know it’s a high-stakes, high-profile sexual assault case when spotlight-seeking L.A.-based lawyer Gloria Allred shows up first thing, a documentary film crew in tow. And there she was on cue on Monday, day one […]

President Trump lashes out at Justice Department for court strategy on travel ban

June 5, 2017 World Justice News 0

President Donald Trump lashed out at his own Justice Department Monday for seeking the Supreme Court’s backing for a “watered down, politically correct version” of the travel ban he signed in March instead of a […]

Human Rights

Facial recognition to be ‘rolled out’ across UK after human rights challenge fails

April 22, 2026 0

Facial recognition systems will be introduced across the country, the government has said as it welcomed the failure of a legal challenge to the technology. The case against the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial […]

Canada

Canadian ‘online poison seller’ Kenneth Law to have ‘murder charges dropped in plea deal’

April 19, 2026 0

A Canadian chef accused of supplying deadly substances to people around the world who have taken their own lives will have murder charges dropped as part of a plea deal, his lawyer has said. Kenneth […]

Australia

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier charged over alleged war crimes

April 7, 2026 0

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier has been charged over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith – who left the defence force in 2013 – was arrested at Sydney airport on Tuesday and will […]

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Year: 2017

Ex-BBC presenters guilty of sex offences

Comey: Trump administration’s comments were “lies plain and simple”

Charlie Gard: Parents’ appeal for US treatment bid fails

At the Bill Cosby trial, ‘Canada’s Mom’ slays ‘America’s Dad’

Rights group asks Germany to arrest CIA deputy director Gina Haspel

Japanese fugitive on the run for 45 years is arrested

Outrage after rapist jailed with victim

Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law jailed

Bill Cosby’s accusers are already under attack at his trial

President Trump lashes out at Justice Department for court strategy on travel ban