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Iraqi interpreter opts for divorce over court case, report says
Copenhagen - An Iraqi interpreter, who was recently granted asylum in Denmark, has opted to divorce one of his two wives rather than face a legal case, his lawyer said Monday. The family services department at the Justice Ministry earlier April said ...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-28 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

German trader acquitted on charge of nuclear aid to Pakistan
Marburg, Germany - A German trader, 60, who was alleged to have helped Pakistan make nuclear weapons was acquitted Friday with judges in Germany ruling the case had not been satisfactorily proved. Prosecutors had admitted at the close of the trial th...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-25 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Germany appoints jurist, 44, to senior judicial post
Berlin - A 44-year-old legal scholar, Andreas Vosskuhle, was elected Friday to a judgeship that puts him on track to later become one of the youngest men ever to hold Germany's top judicial position. In a unanimous vote in the Bundesrat upper chamber...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-25 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Czech court asked to review EU reform treaty
Prague - Czech lawmakers Thursday asked the nation's Constitutional Court to review the European Union Reform Treaty, reflecting a euro-sceptic stance by Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's party. The Senate voted 48-22 to have the high court rule wheth...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-24 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Russia to pay over 300,000 dollars in damages to 13 Central Asians
Strasbourg - The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ordered Russia to pay a total of 195,000 euros (306,000 dollars) in damages to 12 Uzbeks and one Kyrgyz national for threatening to send them to Uzbekistan where they would face tortur...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-24 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Italian bank UniCredit wins German case against rebel investors
Munich - Italian bank UniCredit won a major court battle Thursday in Germany against rebel shareholders who objected to aspects of its 2005 takeover of major German bank HypoVereinsbank. The state court in Munich said there was no reason to block a s...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-24 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Czech choirmaster convicted of sexually abusing underage singers
Prague - A choirmaster of a world-acclaimed Czech children's choir was found guilty Wednesday of sexually abusing 40 of his underage charges, a court said. The County Court in Hradec Kralove sentenced Bohumil Kulinsky, 48, formerly of renown Bambini ...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-23 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Khmer Rouge hearing adjourned; attorney warned
Phnom Penh - A hearing for former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan was unexpectedly adjourned Wednesday with the Cambodian genocide tribunal warning his attorney. Well-known French lawyer Jacques Verges - who has gained fame by representing su...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-23 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Jordan prosecutor starts hearing in lawsuit against Danish papers
Amman - Amman's public prosecutor on Tuesday began hearings in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 30 Jordanian media establishments against a dozen Danish papers which reprinted controversial cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed, judicial sources s...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-22 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Four Bosnian Serbs sentenced for war crimes
Sarajevo - The War Crimes Chamber of Bosnia-Herzegovina's State Court sentenced Tuesday in Sarajevo Bosnian Serb Dusan Fustar to nine years in jail after he admitted to crimes committed during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In his final hea...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-22 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]