Recent Updates
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Yukos vs Russia face off in European court
Legal World 03/05/2010Thousands of miles (kilometers) from the Siberian jail where its founder is imprisoned, representatives of the ruined Russian oil giant Yukos and the Russian government will meet face to face for the first time at the European Court of Human Rights t...
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Appeals court rejects UN sexual harassment suit
Legal World 03/03/2010An appeals court says a United Nations employee whose sexual harassment claims led to the resignation of the U.N.'s refugee chief cannot sue in U.S. courts.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the United Nations is absolutely immu...
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Saudi could allow women lawyers in court: reports
Legal World 02/21/2010Saudi Arabia could soon allow women lawyers to appear in court, though apparently only representing other women, the country's justice minister said in comments published on Sunday.Justice Minister Mohammed al-Issa said the ministry is drafting new r...
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Chinese Court Denies Appeal by Jailed Activist
Legal World 02/11/2010A court in Beijing denied an appeal by one of China’s best-known democracy advocates on Thursday and upheld his 11-year prison sentence, human rights activists said.The Beijing Municipal Higher People’s Court upheld the conviction and unusually harsh...
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China high court stresses 'mercy' in death penalty
Legal World 02/10/2010China's highest court has issued new guidelines on the death penalty that instruct lower courts to limit its use to a small number of "extremely serious" cases.The Supreme People's Court told courts to use a policy of "justice tempered with mercy" th...
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UBS chairman unhappy with court ruling on tax
Legal World 01/27/2010Villiger was reacting to a ruling by the Federal Administrative Court last week that the transfer of customer data broke the law. His comments were published by the German-language Tages-Anzeiger newspaper on Wednesday.The court decision has cast dou...
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Swiss court fines speeding motorist $290,000
Legal World 01/07/2010A millionaire motorist clocked up a record fine of 299,000 Swiss francs ($290,000) after Swiss police caught him racing through a village at 100 km per hour in his red Ferrari Testarossa, Swiss media reported on Thursday. A court in the northeastern ...
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Peruvian court ratifies Fujimori's 25-year prison sentence
Legal World 01/04/2010The First Penal Transitory Hall of the Peruvian Supreme Court of Justice ratified on Sunday the sentence of 25-year imprisonment against former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimory, for qualified homicide, killing and grave injuries. The trial was car...
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Man shoots and kills court employee in Austria
Legal World 12/17/2009A drunk man unhappy with a judge's ruling in his divorce case returned to the courthouse on Wednesday and fatally shot one of its employees, authorities said.The 57-year-old was arrested after gunning down the 42-year-old mother of two young children...
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EDF wins EU court challenge on euro1.2 mn state aid
Legal World 12/16/2009Electricite de France SA could potentially recover some euro1.2 billion after it won a European Union court challenge Tuesday that said EU regulators were wrong to order the company to repay tax relief to the French government.The ruling from the EU'...
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Crew of NKorean weapons plane in Thai court
Legal World 12/14/2009Police say a court in Thailand has approved a 12-day detention for the crew of a seized plane carrying 35 tons of weapons from North Korea.Police spokesman Pongsapat Pongjaren said Monday that the Bangkok Criminal Court approved a request by authorit...
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Romania in turmoil: massive election fraud charged
Legal World 12/14/2009Many Romanians had hoped this election would lift the country out of political crisis, help it shake its reputation for corruption, and allow it to climb out of its worst recession in 20 years.Instead, it has plunged the country into even deeper turm...