News about Court

Japan cancels next Antarctic whaling hunt after ICJ ruling Japan said Thursday it was cancelling its annual Antarctic whaling hunt for the first time in more than a quarter of a century in line with a UN court ruling that the programme was a commercial activity disguised as science.

03 April 2014

Corruption of minors case trial to start in mid April The case of the British national Peter Baruch charged with corrupting minors in Kazakhstan will be transferred to court in mid April.

02 April 2014

US top court rules domestic abusers can't own guns The US Supreme Court upheld a federal law Wednesday barring anyone convicted of even a minor domestic violence charge from ever owning a gun.

27 March 2014

NCOC and Agip to dispute Kashagan fine NCOC and Agip KCO intend to dispute the $737 million damage compensation for the break down at the Kashagan oil-field in court.

22 March 2014

Kazakhstan eyes prohibiting and restraining orders Once Kazakhstan adopts its new Criminal Procedures Code, the country's courts will be able to pass orders prohibiting or restricting approaches by the defendant to the protected.

16 March 2014

French court sentences Rwandan over genocide A French court sentenced a former Rwandan army captain to 25 years in prison over the 1994 genocide Friday, in a landmark ruling just weeks ahead of the massacre's 20th anniversary.

15 March 2014

S. Korean strongman's art collection sold to pay fines Art works confiscated from the family of former South Korean dictator Chun Doo-Hwan have been auctioned to pay multi-million-dollar fines imposed for bribes the disgraced military strongman received in office.

13 March 2014

Petropavlovsk court starts using Skype for remote hearings Petropavlovsk city of northern Kazakhstan has started experimenting with remote court hearings via Skype.

13 March 2014

Saudi jails Islamist for 8 years for Twitter protest call A Saudi court Sunday jailed an Islamist for eight years on charges of inciting protests, mocking the monarch and criticising the security services on Twitter.

10 March 2014

Yemen upholds 10-year jail for 11 Somali pirates An appeals court in the southern port of Aden upheld a 10-year jail term Sunday for 11 Somali pirates convicted of trying to hijack a ship in Yemeni waters.

10 March 2014

British widow wins battle for husband's frozen sperm A British woman won a High Court battle to preserve her late husband's sperm for at least another decade so that she can bear his children.

07 March 2014

Cisco cleared in rights case, as tech sector watches A US court has cleared Cisco Systems over liability for human rights abuses in China, in a case closely watched by the global technology sector and activists.

02 March 2014

Chile indigenous leader gets 18 years for murders A Chilean court sentenced a leader of the country's Mapuche population to 18 years in jail on Friday for a fire that killed an elderly farmer and his wife.

01 March 2014

Turkey frees all suspects in corruption probe A Turkish court on Friday released the last five suspects, including the sons of two ministers, detained in a corruption probe that has struck at the heart of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.

01 March 2014

UK tabloid ex-editor tells of payments to public officials Rebekah Brooks, who edited Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids, told her trial Thursday that she had sanctioned payments to public officials for stories with an "overwhelming public interest".

28 February 2014

Almaty flea market fire case hits court Hearings of the criminal case over Almaty flea market fire started on February 25.

27 February 2014

US court orders Google to pull YouTube anti-Islam film A US appeals court on Wednesday ordered YouTube to take down an anti-Islamic movie that triggered protests in the Muslim world, after an actress alleged she had been duped into appearing in it.

27 February 2014

Hong Kong freezes assets of Ablyazov's affiliates Hong Kong Court has ruled to freeze assets of companies that are believes to be owned by the fugitive ex-head Kazakhstan banker Mukhtar Ablyazov.

26 February 2014

US top court refuses to review youth gun restrictions The US Supreme Court refused Monday to review restrictions on handguns for young people, dealing a blow to arms activists.

25 February 2014

Philippine Supreme Court says law on online libel constitutional The Philippine Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a controversial cybercrime law penalising online libel is constitutional, amid claims it is intended to curb Internet freedom in one of Asia's most freewheeling democracies.

18 February 2014

News