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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 […]

Robert Durst charged with murder of ex-wife who vanished in 1982

October 23, 2021 World Justice News 0

US real estate heir Robert Durst has been charged in the 1982 disappearance of his ex-wife, authorities have said. Kathie McCormack Durst’s body was never found, and she was legally declared dead in 2017. A […]

Trump Invokes Presidential ‘Absolute Immunity’ in Electric Avenue Copyright Suit

October 20, 2021 World Justice News 0

Last month, lawyers acting for Donald Trump failed to have a court dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by musician Eddy Grant over the unlicensed use of his track Electric Avenue in a campaign video. […]

R Kelly guilty in sex trafficking trial

September 27, 2021 World Justice News 0

US singer R Kelly has been found guilty of exploiting his superstar status to run a scheme to sexually abuse women and children over two decades. Eleven accusers, nine women and two men, took the […]

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 […]

Judge rules Prince Andrew’s US lawyer can be served with sexual assault legal papers

September 18, 2021 World Justice News 0

A judge has ruled that Prince Andrew’s US lawyer can be served with legal papers in a sexual assault case filed by Virginia Giuffre in New York. It follows a dispute over whether the prince […]

Human Rights

UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy

October 15, 2026 0

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK if the east African country’s government does not accept more returns of small boat migrants and foreign national offenders. From Thursday, […]

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. […]