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Ghislaine Maxwell: Lawyers call for retrial over juror comments

January 6, 2022 World Justice News 0

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell say she deserves a new trial after a juror told media that he used his own experience of being sexually abused to persuade other jurors who doubted witnesses. Prosecutors also asked […]

Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts and Ghislaine Maxwell

Prince Andrew accuser’s 2009 deal with Jeffrey Epstein made public

January 3, 2022 World Justice News 0

Virginia Giuffre agreed not to sue anyone connected to Jeffrey Epstein who could be described as a “potential defendant”, a 2009 damages settlement against the sex offender shows. The document, disclosed by a New York […]

Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of grooming and trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein

December 29, 2021 World Justice News 0

Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty at her trial in New York. The jury found the 60-year-old guilty on five of six counts – including the most serious charge, that of sex trafficking of a […]

Ghislaine Maxwell declines to testify and rests her case calling prosecution’s arguments “unproven”

December 17, 2021 World Justice News 0

Ghislaine Maxwell has rested her sex-trafficking case after calling the prosecution’s arguments against her “unproven” and declining to testify. Her decision comes after her lawyers called nine witnesses over two days. Ms Maxwell, 59, denies […]

Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Prosecutors rest case after 10 days

December 11, 2021 World Justice News 0

Prosecutors in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial have rested their case following two weeks of testimony. Annie Farmer, the last of four alleged victims to testify, recounted on Friday the “dark memory” of abuse by […]

Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial to begin in New York City

November 29, 2021 World Justice News 0

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to go on trial in New York City on sex trafficking and other charges. She is expected to challenge claims she groomed underage girls for convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein […]

Ghislaine Maxwell to challenge accusers’ memories

November 8, 2021 World Justice News 0

Ghislaine Maxwell will challenge claims that she groomed underage girls for the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. According to a letter by her lawyer, the British socialite’s defence will say her accusers might […]

Prince Andrew asks US court to dismiss case

October 30, 2021 World Justice News 0

Prince Andrew has filed a motion requesting that a New York court dismiss a lawsuit brought against him by Virginia Giuffre. The Duke of York’s lawyers said the “baseless lawsuit” should be dismissed because Ms […]

Prince Andrew: Deadline set for depositions in sex assault civil case

October 26, 2021 World Justice News 0

The Duke of York must answer questions in a civil sex assault case in the US by mid-July next year, a US judge ruled. Virginia Giuffre, 38, has accused Prince Andrew of sexually assaulting her […]

Post, courier, e-mail – the saga to serve papers on Prince Andrew

September 18, 2021 World Justice News 0

For weeks, lawyers acting for a woman who alleges she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew have been trying to alert him to their plans. It has been a drawn-out process involving email auto-replies and […]

Human Rights

Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]

Human Rights

Christa Pike set to be first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years still alive after two lethal injections

October 1, 2026 0

A Tennessee death row inmate set to be the first woman to be executed by the state in more than 200 years is still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyers have said. […]

Human Rights

Killer Christa Pike is to be executed within days – but her defence say she’s a victim too

September 27, 2026 0

Ashlee Sellars last heard from her friend Christa Pike earlier this week, when Pike texted her from her cell on death row as she prepares to be killed by lethal injection by the US state […]