Confusion over a much-talked about but botched transfer of Super Eagles’ defence ace, Danny Shittu to Glasgow Rangers of Scotland has become the centre of a legal battle involving his club, Watford and an English newspaper.
Shittu had been on the verge of taking over from Ugo Ehiogu as the next Nigerian to play for The [...]
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court says a sheriff’s deputy acted legally when he searched a suspect and found heroin in his pockets.
Nathaniel Sumner was stopped by Milwaukee County sheriff’s deputies in 2004 after he drove into oncoming traffic on a Milwaukee street.
Officers found Sumner’s license was suspended, and he was acting nervous and reaching into [...]
The presiding judge in a lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts and the company that wants to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound dismissed the bulk of the suit this week.
Barnstable Superior Court Judge Robert Kane ruled in favor of Cape Wind Associates on most of the company’s requests to dismiss five complaints in [...]
Instead, it will work with a task force exploring ways of generating the same number of jobs a casino would have brought to east Manchester.
Leader Sir Richard Leese said there was more to be gained from working with, rather than against, the government.
Opposition leaders accused Sir Richard of “putting Labour before Manchester”.
The city was the [...]
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said his government is taking legal advice on whether it can take Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the International Court of Justice for inciting violence against Israel.
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called the Holocaust a myth and sparked international condemnation in 2005 when he said the Jewish state should be wiped off [...]
The Government is struggling to find an independent valuer for Northern Rock to determine what, if any, compensation shareholders should receive for their stakes in the Legal nationalised bank.
Industry sources said that accountants, investment banks and other potential valuers were wary of taking on the job because of the potential legal and reputational risks involved. [...]
The family of an unarmed man killed in a hail of police gunfire on his wedding day pledged Saturday to continue its fight to have someone held accountable for his death, a day after a judge acquitted three officers in the slaying.
“I’m still praying for justice, because it’s not over. It’s far from over. It’s [...]
X-rays displayed by doctors who examined the body of Fadel Shana in Gazas Shifa hospital showed several of the controversial weapons, known as flechettes, embedded in the 23-year-old Palestinians chest and legs.
Several of the 3cm-long darts were also found in Shanas flak jacket, emblazoned with a fluorescent Press sign, and in his vehicle, an unarmoured [...]
Mt Roskill community constable Louise Court spotted the teen riding up Staverley Ave in Hillsborough last month. He was not wearing a helmet and rode away when he saw the police car.
He was going faster and faster, driving on the wrong side of the road and in the middle of the road, Ms Court says. [...]
Samoan boxer David Tua showed up with Fields family yesterday at Manukau District Court, where a deposition hearing is under way.
Tua, who expects to return to the United States early next month and hopes to return to the ring in New York in June, said he did not know much about the legal issues Field [...]
