Browsing: Crime & Justice

A report has found “widespread and concerning evidence” of bias and victim-blaming in the family courts – primarily disadvantaging women.The report, Scratching the Surface: Victim-Blaming and…

new video loaded: Watch Parties Canceled as Police Tighten Security at N.B.A. FinalstranscriptBacktranscriptWatch Parties Canceled as Police Tighten Security at N.B.A. FinalsPresident Trump and Mayor Zohran…

The government’s most senior law officer has been asked to review the “unduly lenient” prison sentence handed to a rapist who evaded police for nearly two…

Imagine you are a juror on a murder trial. A married couple have been found shot dead. The defendant, a man known to them, denies the…

As a judge, I wrote a scenario for a recruitment exercise for a judicial appointments commission where candidates had to adjudicate between a Sikh boy who…

Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “weak,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the…

new video loaded: Protester Hit by Car at Newark ICE Detention CenterA vehicle hit a protester on Friday as it was leaving Delaney Hall, an immigration…

Last month, at commemorations marking the 25th anniversary of France’s Taubira law recognising the trafficking of enslaved Africans as a crime against humanity, Emmanuel Macron did…

Severely disabled people will be at heightened risk of abuse in care homes and hospitals after the biggest upheaval in disability law in a generation overturned…

The final matchup for the Los Angeles mayoral runoff remains unsettled, but precinct-level returns show the contours of the race. The incumbent mayor, Karen Bass, secured…