The investigation centres on allegations the former Lennon Government promised a senior legal appointment to an eminent person in return for certain favours.
Police are interviewing figures across the top echelons of Tasmania’s political, legal and public spheres in relation to the new inquiry.
The secret investigation has been under way for the past six to eight [...]
The European Commission is facing a legal challenge from anti-Lisbon Treaty campaigner Patricia McKenna.
The former Green MEP has claimed that the commission has been interfering in the Irish political process in order to secure a ‘Yes’ vote in the forthcoming referendum.
She has criticised the body for its funding of several events around the country at [...]
IT was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
On the one hand, a quarter-final and a day in the sun to savour.
On the other, a court case and a potentially bleak future, if any at all, for the football club.
The summary judgement showdown in the High Court was due just days after [...]
The Barnes Foundation has triumphed in the latest round of a legal battle over its plan to move a collection of Impressionist art to Philadelphia.
Judge Stanley Ott of Montgomery County Orphans’ Court said the Friends of the Barnes Foundation lacked legal standing to oppose the relocation of the collection from its home in Merion, Pa., [...]
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on Saturday called for an appropriate legal framework in the criminal justice system to tackle the menace of terrorism. He favoured adoption of a counter terrorism strategy that was aimed at securing the confidence and support of the local people.
Speaking on ‘arbitration and international standards for contract [...]
It may not be what they had in mind when they applied for jobs at the Crown Law Office and the Electoral Commission, but it could prove to be the defining moment of their careers. Does a balloon bearing a political party logo and website address constitute an election advertisement?
To the Great Unwashed the answer [...]
Michael John Carroll and Allan Brian Miller, convicted on five and three rapes respectively and both in jail on preventive detention, allege the board is neither independent nor impartial and its decisions are illegal, largely because of its ties with the Corrections Department.
They want a raft of remedies, ranging from sacking the Parole Board to [...]
Dominating internet advertising and search have allowed the company to embark on a seemingly endless expansion into all manner of internet products, including email, video sharing, online mapping, mobile phone software, social networking and office productivity.
But while Googles revenues in 2007 were 37 times greater than in 2002 and its headcount has ballooned to well [...]
As the court dealt a major blow to its efforts to reveal who won the March 29 vote, the Movement for Democratic Change said one of its supporters had been stabbed to death by members of President Robert Mugabes ZANU-PF party. Police said the killing, by three people, did not appear to be political.
In his [...]
Michael John Carroll and Allan Brian Miller, convicted on five and three rapes respectively and both in jail on preventive detention, allege the board is neither independent nor impartial and its decisions are illegal, largely because of its ties with the Corrections Department.
They want a raft of remedies, ranging from sacking the Parole Board to [...]
