Joint Committee on Human Rights — Tenth Report, UK Parliament, March 5, 2005 . Excerpt: We therefore question whether the degree of prior judicial involvement...

After a Thursday ruling thwarted an effort to keep court petitions private , documents filed by Florida's Department of Children and Families (DCF) related to the case of 41-year-old Terri Schiavo were made public Friday. The...

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said Friday that their first legal battle against Internet file-sharers has been a success. BPI issued their statement after 23 people paid a cumulative sum of £50,000 in an out-of-court settlement. Of...

journalist Giuliana Sgrena to safety after she had been released from her Iraqi captors. The attack wounded Sgrena and killed an Italian secret...

The Swiss Federal Prosecutor's office announced Friday that searches conducted in Switzerland on February 22 resulted in the arrests of three individuals accused of running Islamic websites that allowed Internet users to view images of...

Britain's Joint Committee on Human Rights warned Friday that the proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill , even with an amendment allowing only judges to impose house arrest on terror suspects, does not...

Russian prosecutors said Friday that they have arrested four people suspected of planning the Beslan school siege last year, in which over 300 people died. Five other suspects were killed while resisting arrest. A Russian commission investigating...

US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson said Friday that corporate lawyers should devote more time to helping clients obey the law, rather than evading it. Speaking to a gathering of securities lawyers [PLI...

In Friday's international brief, France has announced that it will hold a national referendum on the European constitution on May 29. France just recently approved an amendment to its constitution to allow such...

President Bush Friday nominated acting Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen Johnson to fill the job permanently. In White House remarks, the President said: ... his immediate task is to work with Congress to pass my...