Europe
UK: Shy lawyers allowing clients to go months without paying
Analysis from chartered accountants Lubbock Fine shows that the average lock-up at the UK’s top 100 ...
France to ban female students from wearing abayas in state schools
The rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September....
UK Home Secretary does not rule out GPS tagging of Channel migrants
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she was considering "all options" to "exert some control" over ...
New Zealand brothers jailed over sexual assault of 18 women in unprecedented case
Two New Zealand brothers have been sentenced to 16 and a half and 17 years in prison for drugging an...
UK:Police officer who raped teenage girl and colleague jailed
The former Met officer, 44, from Newmarket in Suffolk, was jailed for 16 years with a further eight ...
UK:Teenage girl jailed for life for killing boyfriend and passenger in 100mph car crash
A teenage girl nicknamed "hell on wheels" has been jailed for life for murdering her boyfriend and a...
New Zealand to compensate man wrongly jailed for 19 years
Alan Hall was found guilty of murder in 1986 and given a life sentence. His conviction was overturne...
The baby at the centre of an India-Germany diplomatic row
The toddler has been at the centre of a diplomatic row between India and Germany after she was taken...
Germany approves landmark bill to liberalise cannabis use and sale
People will also be allowed to grow up to three cannabis plants as Berlin tries to curb the black ma...
YouTube chef arrested on suspicion of murdering and dismembering man on Thai island
Daniel Sancho Bronchalo has been charged with premeditated murder, which carries a possible death pe...
Chelsea investigated by Premier League for potential financial rule breaches during Abramovich era
The London side's new owners reported its own club to UEFA and the Premier League after their takeov...
UK:Man jailed for raping teenager five months before she was murdered by her brother
A man who raped a teenager five months before she was murdered by her brother has been jailed for 10...
Sweden's Quran burnings put freedom of expression law to test
A spate of Quran burnings in Sweden has badly affected the country's image abroad and led to a deter...
Putin signs law banning gender changes in Russia
Legislation outlaws medical interventions ‘aimed at changing the sex of a person’ and altering gende...
British man who killed seriously ill wife cleared of murder
A British man who killed his seriously ill wife at their home in Cyprus has been cleared of her murd...
Oil giant BP fined £650,000 over death of worker who fell from offshore platform
BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd was last week found guilty of a health and safety breach at a U...
UK passes bill to return illegal migrants to their home country, third country
The UK government's Department for Immigration & Passports, Drugs Policy, Crime, Fire, Counter-terro...
UK lawyer jailed for embezzling £120,000 from pensioner with dementia
The 69-year-old stole the money from his victim after being made her power of attorney in 2014. Sinc...
UK law firm owners suspended for accounts breaches dating back to 1980s
A Solicitors Regulation Authority launched an investigation in August 2021, which found the firm was...
Italians protest after judge clears caretaker of charges because he groped girl for less than 10 seconds
According to the judges, what happened “does not constitute a crime” because it lasted less than 10 ...
UK: Solicitor struck off for hiding friendship with convicted money lender
A tribunal found that Malcolm Glynn had been motivated a desire to conceal the relationship he had w...
Greta Thunberg: Climate activist charged with disobeying police order at protest
The campaigner was detained amid a protest in the Swedish city of Malmo last month....
UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda ruled unlawful
The Court of Appeal ruled in favour of a group of people who arrived in the UK in small boats, plus ...
UK: Solicitor banned for overcharging vulnerable clients
Alex Richard Guy admitted that over two and a half years, while acting as one client’s deputy, he ra...
Swiss court acquits officers over death of Nigerian
When the verdict was announced, there were shouts of "shame" in the courtroom, and protests outside...
