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The restrictive conditions imposed on Prime Minister’s Office chief of staff Tzachi Braverman were set to expire at noon on Wednesday, but have now been extended by one day, with the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court scheduled to hold a broader hearing on Thursday to determine whether they should remain in place.
The US Supreme Court’s February 20 ruling has significantly limited President Donald Trump’s ability to use tariffs as a negotiation tool. However, friends and foes have not yet breathed a sigh of relief; restricting the President may increase his use of potentially much more damaging instruments.
The jury in the Natalie McNally murder trial has been shown a purported YouTube live stream conducted by the accused, which prosecutors say was pre-recorded.
Jamieson Greer warns tariffs may climb from 10% after Trump imposed global levy amid US supreme court setback
A legal advocacy group has labelled UK Lawyers for Israel a “major actor” in what researchers have described as a systematic campaign of repression targeting pro-Palestinian activism in the UK.
County judge says the family’s key claims are strong enough for the case to continue
Three Pro-Palestine protesters have pleaded not guilty to charges that they called for an "intifada" during a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
The heads of district courts nationwide on Wednesday expressed "grave concern" over controversial judicial reform bills pushed by the ruling Democratic Party, including a proposal to introduce a new crime of "legal distortion" and to allow constitutional appeals in court cases.
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Rovier Carrington thought his cases against MTV and Paramount executives should have been the biggest of the #MeToo era. Instead, they raised unsettling questions about victimhood
The prosecution said Wednesday they have dropped a final appeal against an appellate court's recent acquittal of one incumbent and two former ruling Democratic Party (DP) lawmakers charged in connection with a cash-for-votes scandal surrounding the party's 2021 leadership election.
An Israeli court overturned the conviction of an officer who assaulted a Palestinian photojournalist in 2023, citing that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of responding to the 7 October attacks.
A special counsel team said Wednesday it has appealed a court's recent life sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his insurrection conviction.
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Yonhap) -- The prosecution said Wednesday they have dropped a final appeal against an appellate court's recent acquittal of one incumbent and two former ruling Democratic Party (DP) lawmakers charged in connection with a cash-for-votes scandal surrounding the party's 2021 leadership election.
London, United Kingdom – Legal experts have documented almost 1,000 incidents in which pro-Palestine voices have been allegedly targeted in the United Kingdom, data that they say represents a “systematic effort” to repress the country’s solidarity movement.
In 2008, after years of allegations from teenage girls who said they had been abused inside the property, Jeffrey Epstein secured what was later described as one of the most extraordinary plea deals in modern US legal history.
The "case of the century" is set to play out in the federal court this month, with the ACCC taking on supermarket giant Coles for what it claims are "illusory" discounts.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced she is weighing a lawsuit against billionaire Elon Musk after he claimed she is controlled by drug cartels.
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SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Yonhap) -- A special counsel team said Wednesday it has appealed a court's recent life sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his insurrection conviction.
Seventeen international aid groups announced they have petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday to allow them to keep operating in the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem as the Israeli government's ban on their life-saving work next month nears.
The Court of Appeal today dismissed two writ petitions filed by Avant-Garde Maritime Services and its employees, which sought to overturn an order issued by the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence to remove three of the company’s armouries.
The Colombo High Court today (25) ordered the acquittal of Daisy Forrest, the grandmother of Yoshitha Rajapaksa, in a case filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
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Western Australia’s government is facing legal action from an Aboriginal corporation which wants the Federal Court to force it to clean up asbestos contamination from the Wittenoom mine.
Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Yonhap) -- The National Assembly, led by the ruling Democratic Party (DP), passed another amendment to the Commercial Act aimed at requiring the cancellation of listed firms' own shares Wednesday after the opposition's 24-hour filibuster expired.
In this March 12, 2015 file photo, Heather Mack, left, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, both from Chicago, Ill., who are accused of of murdering Mack’s mother Sheila von Wiese-Mack whose body was later found in a suitcase, enter the court room prior to the start of their trial hearing at the district court in Denpa…
A judge has ruled luxury gifts passed to Kim Keon-hee were ‘grease payments’, contradicting an earlier verdict and threatening her appeal
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Yonhap) -- A senior judicial official said Wednesday that the opinions of the judiciary should be reflected in deliberations for controversial judicial reform bills pushed by the ruling Democratic Party (DP).
Sisituutuumata Fulivai is on trial in the ACT Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to 20 charges. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Yonhap) -- Former ADOR chief executive Min Hee-jin on Wednesday offered to end all legal disputes with K-pop giant Hybe in return for giving up a 25.6 billion-won (US$17.89 million) put option from the company.
The revelation that 315 MPs were asked to pick items from a gift catalogue evokes a slush-fund scandal that engulfed the party in 2023
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Yonhap) -- Former President Yoon Suk Yeol's appellate trial on obstruction of justice and other charges will begin next week, legal sources said Wednesday.
Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
Police are increasingly examining suspects’ generative artificial intelligence use history as key evidence in establishing intent or motive, according to media reports citing legal experts on Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday persisted with his tariff agenda after the Supreme Court struck down his signature economic policy.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday persisted with his tariff agenda after the Supreme Court struck down his signature economic policy.
The Supreme Court has upheld an 18-month prison sentence for Korean rapper Lee Dong-heon, known as Keith Ape, for marijuana use, local media reported Wednesday.
The Federal Court justice hearing the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s allegation that Coles misled customers with its “Down Down” promotions has peppered the watchdog’s lawyers over their arguments in the case.
People hold signs across the street from the Eldon B. Mahon U.S. Courthouse during a trial for nine people connected to a 2025 shooting outside an ICE detention facility Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that almost all countries want to keep bilateral trade deals with the United States, knowing that his legal power as president to make a new deal could be "far worse."
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday she is considering legal action following a comment by tech billionaire Elon Musk, who alleged she was connected to drug cartels.
Joe Gibbs watches a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, July 27, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
By Anton Grishanov, Chief Research Fellow at the Institute for Contemporary International Issues of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry
Immigrants play soccer at a new U.S. government holding center for migrant children, in Carrizo Springs, Texas, July 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Police have apprehended a second suspect believed to be involved in the targeted killing of a lawyer and his wife in Akuregoda.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the campus in 2023 and 2024.
Seventeen international aid groups said they have petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court to allow them to keep working in the Gaza Strip and other areas in the occupied Palestinian territory, where the Israeli government is set to halt their life-saving work next month.
Tommy Schaefer, convicted of killing girlfriend Heather Mack’s mother in 2014, apologised to the victim’s family after his early release