Singapore judge punished for caning sentence error
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A Singapore judge has been punished for mistakenly sentencing a prisoner to an extra three strokes of the cane, the Singapore government said on Tuesday.
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A LONDON judge struck out a special damages case against the Financial Times newspaper yesterday, claiming that the suit was &quot;untriable&quot;.
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A high court judge has criticised banks for procrastinating when customers sue for the return of overdraft charges.
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It was a $100 million mistake, and a federal judge said Friday he doesn't have the power to fix it.
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A judge seeks a solution for a 'public nuisance of a major kind' who repeatedly breaks an anti-social behaviour order.
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A New York judge poked a hole in NBA commissioner David Stern&#39;s iron-clad authority to punish players for conduct he considers inappropriate or damaging to the league.
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A California judge was wrong to throw out a murder conviction against a San Francisco lawyer whose dogs mauled a neighbor to death, the state's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
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The judge who presided over the Securities and Exchange Commission&#39;s fraud suit against MCI, the long-distance telephone company, threatened to punish the company yesterday for ignoring his
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Court of appeal judge found not guilty after two-day trial at City of Westminster magistrates court.
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A three-judge panel Wednesday found a former interior minister guilty of fueling violence in East Timor a year ago that ultimately led to the downfall of the government and sentenced him to 7 1/2 years in prison.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand judge halted a court hearing when he suspected that a defendant facing charges of drinking and driving was drunk on the dock.
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A Chinese court on Friday upheld a guilty verdict against a Hong Kong-based Singapore newspaper reporter who was sentenced to prison for five years for espionage, state media and his family said.
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A Chinese court jailed a reporter for   a Singapore newspaper for five years on Thursday on a charge of   spying, the latest in a series of high-profile cases   underscoring China's curbs on the media and dissent.
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A fine and suspended jail term given to the owner of a dog mauled a partially-sighted boy is criticised by his family.
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A US judge involved in the scoring mistake that may have helped Paul Hamm win the all-around gold medal at the Athens Olympics lost his place Friday on a key committee of gymnastics&#39; world governing body.
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An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced the editor of the country&#39;s leading news magazine to one year in prison for libel in a setback for press freedom in the country.
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The judge who dismissed the rape case against NBA star Kobe Bryant expressed frustration Thursday, saying a series of embarrassing courthouse mistakes should serve as a warning against taking money away from the judiciary.