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PhD student guilty of drugging and raping 10 women in London and China – police fear more than 50 other victims

March 5, 2025 World Justice News 0

Police are appealing for more than 50 more victims to come forward after one of the country’s most prolific sex offenders was found guilty of drugging and raping 10 women. Chinese PhD student Zhenhao Zou, […]

Gary Haggarty: ‘Disbelief’ at masked men inside Belfast courtroom

October 26, 2023 World Justice News 0

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has expressed disbelief that masked men appeared in the public gallery of a Belfast court during a murder trial. Masked men appeared during a trial over the killing of Eamon […]

Ashers ‘gay cake’ case: European court rules case inadmissible

January 6, 2022 World Justice News 0

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a challenge in a long-running dispute known as the “gay cake” case, ruling Gareth Lee’s case inadmissible. The judges said applicant Mr Lee “failed to exhaust domestic […]

Joe McCann: Trial of two soldiers collapses

May 4, 2021 World Justice News 0

Two former paratroopers accused of the murder of an Official IRA man in 1972 have been formally acquitted after their trial collapsed. Joe McCann, 24, was shot in disputed circumstances in Joy Street in the […]

Twenty-one people were killed in two blasts on 21 November 1974

Birmingham pub bombings: Man arrested in Belfast

November 18, 2020 World Justice News 0

A man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of 21 people in the 1974 pub bombings in Birmingham. The blasts at the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on the night […]

Ashers ‘gay cake’ row referred to highest European Court

August 15, 2019 World Justice News 0

A case involving a Christian bakery, which refused to make a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage, has been referred to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Gareth Lee tried but failed to […]

Porn actor fined for threesome on London Underground

February 1, 2019 World Justice News 0

A porn actor who filmed himself and his ex-partner having a threesome in front of passengers on the London Underground has been fined £1,000. George Mason, 35, and Nicholas Mullan, 24, had sex with an […]

‘Gay cake’ row: Bakers win UK Supreme Court appeal

October 10, 2018 World Justice News 0

The Christian owners of a Northern Ireland bakery have won their appeal in the so-called “gay cake” discrimination case. The UK’s highest court ruled that Ashers bakery’s refusal to make a cake with a slogan […]

“It’s potentially quite dangerous” – Human Rights Campaigner on Ashers Bakery Ruling

October 25, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Ashers Bakery in Belfast, NI, refused to bake the cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan on it in 2014. Northern Ireland’s Equality Commission brought a civil action alleging the bakery breached its statutory duty not […]

Trial will decide if Facebook are liable for publication of revenge porn

October 9, 2016 World Justice News 0

A forthcoming trial will decide if Facebook are liable for publication of revenge porn. The trial centres on the claim that Facebook is liable for the publication of a naked picture of a 14-year-old girl […]

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Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

Human Rights

Rape trial puts Norway’s royal family in unwelcome glare of public

February 1, 2026 0

When Marius Borg Høiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His […]

Human Rights

France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

February 1, 2026 0

France is to enshrine in law the end of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause […]