There is a need to re-examine the blanket approach under the POCSO Act and its assumption that all sexual acts involving ...

Retired senior judge Sir Brian Leveson, who was tasked by the Government to look at ways to solve the backlog of cases in the criminal courts, has made radical proposals to change the system and ...

Two men are due to be sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court today for the illegal felling of the Sycamore Gap tree. Daniel ...

At the sentencing hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, Mrs Justice Lambert jailed Graham and Carruthers for four years and three ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s chief prosecutor has called for a guilty verdict in the case of far-right former President ...

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is accused of seeking to overturn the 2022 election in which he was defeated by a left-wing rival.

A Shawnee County judge imposes two consecutive life terms sought by prosecutors in the murder of a child instead of the ...

Brazil’s chief prosecutor has called for a guilty verdict in the case of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, on trial ...

Brazil’s chief prosecutor has called for a guilty verdict in the case of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is on ...

A new law sets a seven-year time limit to file a motion for appropriate relief. Opponents worry could allow wrongful convictions to stand.

Mutare man jailed for three years over robbery of US$80 iTel phone as Zimbabweans question justice system amid lenient ...

The Constance Marten verdict ignored a problematic social services system quick to condemn, vilify, and discriminate against mothers ...