By RICHARD SPILLETT A woman who wants to divorce her husband of 40 years because she says their marriage is unhappy has lost a Supreme Court fight. Five Supreme Court justices have ruled that Tini Owens must […]
By KEILIGH BAKER Victims of crime who lived at the same address as their attacker will be entitled to compensation after a landmark Court of Appeal ruling. Senior judges said that the so-called ‘same-roof’ rule, which denied […]
A store worker has been convicted of murdering a father-of-seven with an axe before taking his body in a shopping trolley to a cemetery. Imran Muhammad, 31, had searched terms such as “how to kill […]
By Adam Carter A decision in Dellen Millard’s first-degree murder trial in the death of his father, Wayne Millard, in Toronto has been delayed until this fall. Ontario Superior Court Justice Maureen Forestell said Thursday morning she […]
The president of Peru’s Supreme Court has resigned amid a widening corruption scandal that has rocked the country’s judicial system. Duberli Rodriguez’s resignation follows the release last week of audiotapes suggesting sentences could be bought […]
Horrific accounts of gang rape, throats being slit and mass shootings in South Sudan are described in the latest United Nations report on the country. It blames the violence in Unity state on government and […]
The mother and grandmother of an emaciated man who was allowed to “rot to death” have been convicted of his manslaughter. Jordan Burling, 18, went into cardiac arrest in Leeds in 2016 and died weighing […]
By Rob Antle producer for CBC’s investigative unit in Newfoundland and Labrador. A recent Ontario Superior Court decision could put even more stress on a justice system already struggling with timelines imposed by the Supreme Court of […]
The widow of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has been allowed to leave the country, boarding a flight for Germany, reports say. Liu Xia, who had been under house arrest since her husband won […]
By Scott J. Croteau The lawsuit filed by two Massachusetts State Police troopers who say their supervisors forced them to alter and destroy reports involving the arrest of a Worcester County judge’s daughter were dismissed by […]
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