Browsing: Crime & Justice

France’s highest court has cancelled an arrest warrant for the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity during the…

Leaders in the Caribbean have hailed the outcome of the international court of justice (ICJ) climate change case as a “historic legal victory” for small island…

July has been one of the deadliest months of the war in Gaza, with Israel killing one person every 12 minutes. The UN says more than…

The boss of Australia’s human rights commission has questioned Labor’s moves to make Asio’s powers for compulsory questioning permanent, warning a planned expansion of the 9/11-era…

Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, the two City traders whose convictions for manipulating a key benchmark interest rate were quashed on Wednesday by the supreme court,…

Good morning. From tomorrow social media companies must introduce child safety measures under the Online Safety Act. It is a key moment for a British government…

The US supreme court let Donald Trump on Wednesday remove three Democratic members of the government’s top consumer product safety watchdog, boosting his power over federal…

Three years ago, playwright Suzie Miller gave Jodie Comer a career-defining role with her West End debut in Prima Facie. Rosamund Pike’s stage CV already has…

States must tackle fossil fuels, the world’s top court has ruled, and failing to prevent harm to the climate could result in them being ordered to…

Tom Hayes, the first banker jailed over the Libor interest rate-rigging scandal in 2015, has cleared his name after the UK’s supreme court overturned a decade-old…