Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has developed a smart programme to follow up cases in the criminal courts, using machine learning – a type of artificial intelligence, to increase the adjudication rate and enable speedy trial of […]
One of the historic judgments in the landmark and powerful “MeToo” movement has come from India this week. A Delhi court rejected a defamation case filed by powerful editor-politician MJ Akbar against journalist Priya Ramani. Akbar, a former minister, had taken […]
My old friend and former colleague MJ Akbar lost in court on Wednesday. But he had no choice but to try and salvage the remnants of his reputation. Not to have gone through the legal wringer would have been an […]
A Moroccan man and three alleged accomplices went on trial in France Monday for an attempted terror attack on an Amsterdam-Paris train five years ago that was foiled by passengers whose heroic actions were turned into a Hollywood film. Hollywood […]
Hollywood star Johnny Depp on Monday lost his libel battle with a British tabloid that labelled him a “wife beater”, after a London High Court judge ruled he had repeatedly assaulted his former partner and put her in fear for […]
The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday, claiming the $1 trillion company uses its market power to fend off rivals and said nothing was off the table, including a breakup of the internet […]
Greece’s neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn was branded a criminal organisation on Wednesday, meaning its leaders now face heavy sentences following one of the most important trials in the country’s political history. The judgement came as police and anti-fascist demonstrators clashed […]
President Donald Trump’s accountant must turn over his tax records to a New York state prosecutor, an appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a stay of a lower-court decision will remain in […]