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Man Arrested Over Online Threat To Brexit Challenger Gina Miller

December 7, 2016 World Justice News 0

Police have arrested a man over threats made to Gina Miller, the businesswoman behind the legal challenge to Brexit. The 55-year old suspect was arrested in Swindon on suspicion of racially aggravated malicious communications. He was […]

Digital Economy Bill Proposes 10 Years In Jail For UK Internet Pirates

December 6, 2016 World Justice News 0

The Digital Economy Bill is currently at the report stage. It hasn’t yet become law and could still be amended. However, as things stand those who upload any amount of infringing content to the Internet […]

Ross Harris Sentenced To Life Without Parole Plus 32 years Served Consecutively

December 5, 2016 World Justice News 0

Justin Ross Harris was today sentenced to life without parole plus 32 years served consecutively for murdering his young son by leaving him in a hot car. Superior Court Judge Mary Staley Clark carried out the […]

Supreme Court Hearing Government’s Brexit Appeal

December 5, 2016 World Justice News 0

The Government is at the Supreme Court in the latest stage of the legal battle over Brexit. The highest court in the land is being asked to overturn a High Court ruling that the Prime […]

Michigan Attorney General Files Lawsuit To Stop Presidential Election Results Recount

December 2, 2016 World Justice News 0

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has announced that he filed a lawsuit on behalf of the people of Michigan to stop a request by Green Party candidate Jill Stein to recount the state’s presidential election […]

Inquiry Recommends Federal Court Justice Robin Camp Should Be Removed From The Bench

November 30, 2016 World Justice News 0

Justice Robin Camp, the judge who asked a woman during an Alberta rape trial why she couldn’t just keep her knees together, should be removed from the bench, according to a unanimous recommendation from the […]

National Lottery Accounts Hacked Fear

November 30, 2016 World Justice News 0

About 26,500 National Lottery accounts are feared to have been hacked, according to its operator Camelot. The firm said it did not believe its own systems had been compromised, but rather that the players’ login […]

Paedophile Football Coach Barry Bennell Charged With Child Sex Offences

November 29, 2016 World Justice News 0

Former football coach Barry Bennell has been charged with eight offences of sexual assault against a boy aged under 14, prosecutors have said. The Crown Prosecution Service said it had received a file of evidence […]

Exiled Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych Appears As Witness In Court Over Protester Deaths

November 29, 2016 World Justice News 0

Ukraine’s exiled president, Viktor Yanukovych, has denied ordering police to shoot protesters as he appeared in court as a witness via videolink from Russia. Protests began in November 2013 after Mr Yanukovych decided to scrap […]

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro Has Died

November 26, 2016 World Justice News 0

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90 after a long battle with illness. The revolutionary leader’s death at 10.29pm on Friday was announced on state television by his brother and current […]

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 […]

Human Rights

‘The gravest crime against humanity’: What does the UN vote on slavery mean?

March 28, 2026 0

The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity”. Welcoming the vote, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the wealth of many Western […]

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