Recent Updates
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China to reduce death penalty use
Legal World 09/14/2007[##_1L|1349604566.jpg|width="110" height="103" alt=""|_##]China's Supreme Court has ordered judges to be more sparing in the imposition of the death penalty. An order on its website said execution should be reserved for "an extremely small number of ...
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An anxious wait for EU court ruling on Microsoft
Legal World 09/14/2007[##_1L|1314901538.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]After a three-year legal battle, the European Union's Court of First Instance is set to rule Monday on EU regulators' antitrust case against Microsoft. Because the ruling will have significant...
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Japanese Prime Minister Abe Will Resign
Legal World 09/12/2007[##_1L|1158228929.jpg|width="190" height="137" alt=""|_##]Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Wednesday he will resign, ending a year-old government that has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat. Abe, who...
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Pakistan court orders arrest of leader's brother
Legal World 09/07/2007A Pakistani court ordered the arrest on Friday of an exiled brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, both of whom aim to return home next week to mount a campaign to end embattled President Pervez Musharraf's rule.Authorities have rounded up hu...
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Hyundai chief given suspended sentence
Legal World 09/06/2007[##_1L|1175460599.jpg|width="120" height="118" alt=""|_##]Hyundai Motor Group chief Chung Mong-koo had his three-year jail sentence for fraud suspended by a South Korean appeals court on Thursday, leaving him free to run the world's sixth largest aut...
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Thai court issues warrant for former prime minister
Legal World 09/04/2007A Thai court issued arrest warrants yesterday for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife over their alleged violations of stock-trading laws. It is the second set of warrants issued in the past month against Thaksin, who has been livin...
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Sanofi-Aventis US faces class-action sex bias lawsuit
Legal World 08/31/2007[##_1L|1364727304.jpg|width="120" height="138" alt=""|_##]Sanofi-Aventis US, the American branch of the French pharmaceuticals group, is being charged in a class-action lawsuit for alleged sexual discrimination and harassment. Three former employees ...
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European giants in class action over BA cargo price-fixing
Legal World 08/27/2007BRITISH Airways could be forced to pay out hundreds of millions of pounds to settle a class action lawsuit relating to cargo price-fixing, it emerged yesterday. Several European blue-chip companies, including Ikea, Volvo and TNT, are said to have joi...
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Court to decide on new Taylor trial delay
Legal World 08/19/2007The Hague - Judges presiding over the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor are expected to decide on Monday when the case will resume after his new defence team asked for a delay. The trial chamber of the Sierra Leone tribunal...
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Mattel: 9M more Chinese-made toys recalled
Legal World 08/15/2007[##_1L|1389266596.jpg|width="220" height="165" alt=""|_##]Mattel Inc. Tuesday recalled more than 9 million toys made in China and sold in the United States, including "Polly Pocket" and "Batman" dolls and other popular figures, because of loose magne...
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Mattel Recalls 9 Million Toys Made in China
Legal World 08/14/2007Mattel Inc. recalled millions of its Chinese-made toys across Europe on Tuesday, including Barbie and Batman, due to safety concerns.Millions of toys have also been recalled in the United States due to hazards from small, powerful magnets and lead pa...
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Bush and Karzai hold "strategy session" in US
Legal World 08/06/2007[##_1L|1086954898.jpg|width="100" height="106" alt=""|_##]Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai has arrived in Camp David for what has been billed by experts as a "strategy session" with US president George W. Bush. On the agenda: the struggling, six-...