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Attorney at Copyright troll Prenda Law Pleads Guilty to Operating a Piracy ‘Honeypot’

March 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

For years Prenda Law extracted millions of dollars in cash settlements from alleged BitTorrent pirates, leaving misery in its wake. Now, John Steele, one of its lead attorneys, has signed a guilty plea admitting the […]

Millionaire Guilty Of Murdering Escort

December 21, 2016 World Justice News 0

A millionaire has been found guilty of murdering his £10,000-a-month personal escort after hearing she planned to leave him. Peter Morgan, 54, of Llanellen, Monmouthshire, strangled Georgina Symonds, 25, in January. He admitted killing her […]

Life Sentence For Stefano Brizzi Who Dissolved Policeman In Acid Bath

December 12, 2016 World Justice News 0

A man who strangled a Metropolitan Police officer before trying to dissolve his body in an acid-filled bath has been jailed for life. Stefano Brizzi, from south London, admitted dismembering PC Gordon Semple, 59, while high […]

Dutch MP Geert Wilders Convicted In Hate Speech Trial

December 9, 2016 World Justice News 0

Dutch anti-Islam political leader Geert Wilders has been convicted of insulting a group and inciting discrimination. But no penalty was imposed by the court near Amsterdam on Wilders, whose party is leading in polls ahead […]

Ross Harris Found Guilty Of His Son’s Hot Card Death

November 14, 2016 World Justice News 0

Justin Ross Harris has been found guilty in the US state of Georgia of murdering his young son by leaving him in a hot car. Harris, 35, had denied intentionally leaving his son, Cooper, to […]

Chinese Court Sentences Former Police Chief To Death

November 11, 2016 World Justice News 0

China has sentenced to death the former police chief of the northern region of Inner Mongolia. Zhao Liping, 65, was convicted of murder, bribery, and possession of firearms and explosives, the official Xinhua news agency […]

Rurik Jutting Guilty Of Murder In Hong Kong

November 8, 2016 World Justice News 0

British banker Rurik Jutting has been found guilty of murdering two Indonesian women in Hong Kong, in a case that has gripped the city. A jury took around four hours to find an expressionless Jutting, […]

Woman Gets 20 Years For Killing Former Classmate With Cyanide

October 27, 2016 World Justice News 0

Indonesia — A Jakarta court sentenced an Indonesian woman accused of killing a former classmate with cyanide-laced coffee to 20 years in prison on Thursday, in a dramatic climax to a trial that was broadcast […]

Former Police Chief Guilty of Child Sex Abuse

October 21, 2016 World Justice News 0

A former north Wales police chief has been found guilty of historical child sex offences. Gordon Anglesea, 79, from Old Colwyn, was convicted of one charge of indecent assault against one boy, and three charges […]

Chandler Kania Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter

October 17, 2016 World Justice News 0

A jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a former UNC student accused of driving drunk and causing a deadly wrong-way crash on Interstate 85 last year. Twenty-one-year-old Chandler Kania has been found guilty […]

Human Rights

Japan’s same-sex marriage ban is constitutional, says Tokyo court

November 28, 2025 0

A Japanese court has ruled the country’s ban on same-sex marriage as constitutional – bucking a trend set by courts around the country that had raised hopes for marriage equality in Japan. The ruling was […]

Australia

Teenagers launch legal challenge over Australia’s ban on social media for children

November 26, 2025 0

Two teenagers have launched a legal challenge over Australia’s ban on social media for children younger than 16. The challenge comes two weeks before the law, a world first, is set to take effect. It is […]

Human Rights

Major changes to the UK’s asylum system announced

November 18, 2025 0

The home secretary has announced major changes to the UK’s asylum system. Modelled on the policies of Denmark, Shabana Mahmood hopes her proposals will make the country less attractive to illegal migrants and make it […]