Judicial corruption is hurting the rule of law around the world, according to an annual report on the problem released Thursday by Transparency International (TI) . TI's Global Corruption Report 2007 found judicial corruption...

UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer , the first Secretary of State of the new Ministry of Justice (MOJ) , sought to resolve differences between the judiciary and the government over the recent split of the...

The US Senate voted 74-24 Wednesday to slash the number of temporary guest workers that could be annually admitted into the United States under the proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 ....

UK Home Secretary John Reid said Thursday that control orders employed against persons suspected to be national threats when there is not enough evidence to hold them for trial are "far from...

Aitzaz Ahsan, a lawyer on the defense team for suspended Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry complained Wednesday before the Supreme Court of Pakistan that his legal team was under "enormous government...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted Wednesday to approve new interpretive guidelines for Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 , relaxing previous guidelines which critics have called inflexible,...

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) and State Insurance Superintendent Eric R. Dinallo announced Wednesday that Silverstein Properties , which owns a 99-year lease of the World Trade Center site, has...

Spanish judge Santiago Pedraz ruled Thursday that charges against three US soldiers for homicide and a "crime against the international community" in the 2004 death in Iraq of cameraman Jose Couso should...

United Nations inspectors met with Sudanese officials Thursday in the first steps of a UN investigation into human rights abuses by the Sudanese government in Darfur . The seven-person team arrived in Sudan...

The International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) said Wednesday that a controversial 700-mile fence along the US-Mexican border may violate the 1970 Boundary Treaty , which resolved all pending boundary differences between the...