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A man has been arrested after charging towards a magistrate in a Hong Kong courtroom while wielding a knife. Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts. Photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP. Police said on Monday that the incident took place at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts in the morning, when a man seated in the public gallery in an eighth-floor […]
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq nominates 5 members for formation of Judicial Commission for appointment of judges in higher judiciary. Commission will meet on Nov 5 to discuss nomination of judges for constitutional benches as well. Treasury, Opposition gets equal representation in Commission. ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Yahya Afridi on Saturday summoned the […]
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The contentious proceedings in Delaware’s Court of Chancery should be complete by the end of December, according to the judge’s letter to lawyers in the case. Source link
Says it will pursue a rescission application to overturn the ‘flawed judgment’ that criticised the city’s accounting systems if this request is not honoured. The City of Johannesburg (CoJ) has taken the highly unusual step of formally requesting Acting Judge Stephen van Nieuwenhuizen to withdraw “the erroneous judgment” dismissing with punitive costs its application for […]
A Brazilian judge on Thursday handed lengthy jail terms to two former cops over the 2018 killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco. The two were sentenced to 78 and 59 years in prison respectively. The trial of Ronnie Lessa and Elcio Queiroz lasted two days. The two former military police officers had confessed to […]
Sean Diddy Combs poses at the Met Gala, an annual fundraising gala held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute with this year’s theme “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty”, in New York City, New York, U.S., May 1, 2023. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly/File Photo) NEW YORK — A woman who accused Sean “Diddy” Combs […]
Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees have their backs against the wall heading into Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night. After battling their way through the American League, the Yankees have struggled to get anything going against the Los Angeles Dodgers, falling behind 0-3 in the World Series. One of the […]
A B.C. judge took the extraordinary measure of preventing a woman’s medically assisted death, issuing an 11th-hour court order to halt the procedure, according to documents filed over the weekend. The injunction, signed by Justice Simon R. Coval, is the first of its kind issued in the province and was issued on Saturday, […]
Although Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón approved the recommendation for resentencing Lyle and Erik Menendez, they still face another significant hurdle: Judge William Ryan’s decision. “[Judge] Ryan needs to decide if the brothers pose an unreasonable risk to the public,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Newsweek. “If they do, then he can reject […]