Judges News

Luxembourg - An attempt by Poland to change the retirement age of its judges broke EU law, the bloc's top court ruled Tuesday, prompting Brussels to demand Warsaw quickly fix the damage it caused to the ranks of its judiciary.

Luxembourg - An attempt by Poland to change the retirement age of its judges broke EU law, the bloc's top court ruled Tuesday, intensifying a showdown between Brussels and the conservative government in Warsaw over democratic standards.

Male - The Maldives' top judge received death threats before his arrest in a regime crackdown, his lawyer said Thursday ahead of a United Nations Security Council hearing on the island nation's political crisis.

Cairo - Gunmen shot dead three Egyptian judges Saturday in the strife-torn Sinai Peninsula, where security forces are battling an Islamist insurgency spearheaded by an affiliate of the Islamic State group, police said.

Ankara - Three judges who ordered the release of a TV station boss and 74 police officers, accused of being part of a "parallel state" plotting to overthrow Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, were suspended Monday after he lashed out at the decision.

Wrestlers and Musicians Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope are going through a complicated legal battle with the FBI. This situation just got more complicated now that feds want the case dropped and the American Civil Liberties Union is coming to the rescue.

On Tuesday, Judge Pablo Ruz at the Spanish National Court defied pressure to scrap a probe into alleged torture in the United States prison camp in Guantanamo Bay which targets former U.S. president George W. Bush.

Aliki Chrysochou is a singer who went on Britain's Got Talent on Saturday night, and she wowed the judges with Evanescence's 'Wake Me Up', which comes a few years after she lost all co-ordination, speech and movement.

Alice Fredenham went on UK's 'The Voice' and got turned down by the judges after being on Britain's Got Talent (BGT) a week earlier, where she received rave reviews from BGT's judges Simon Cowell, David Walliams, Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden.

Washington - For nearly 20 years, law enforcement and victim assistance programs have provided much needed services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault due in part to grant money provided through the Department of Justice's Violence Against Women Act.

With the high expectations for the return of Katie Couric to Daytime TV and the non-cancellation of "General Hospital," The Daytime Emmy Awards were announced this morning (May 9).

An ex-ballerina who was previously considered one of the best classical dancers in the UK during part of the 1980's, suffers indignity as court rules she must lose night carer.

Canada’s Federal Court brings new meaning to coddling criminality. A Federal Judge has handed down a decision that will heretofore ensure that Canadian authorities will address criminal gangs with proper decorum and “quiet” respect.

Jennifer Lopez was one of the top contenders to take on the role of judge for this season's American Idol. The word on the street is that she is out of the loop.

A Prosecutor's request to investigate crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Kenya has been approved by the Pre-Trial Chamber II at Hauge.

American Idol fever has struck again, and in this report, an interview with singing legend Patti Labelle has her criticising the show and its judges.

MANILA - A proposed law that grants additional retirement, survivorship and other benefits to members of the judiciary may soon be ratified by the House of Representatives as a way of promoting equity and maintaining competence in the judicial system.

Ellen DeGeneres is known for her talk show and her comedy, not for her musical talent. That will change this year as she joins the judges panel on American Idol, taking the spot of Paula Abdul.

When Sonya Sotomayor made the comment about judges making laws, she was criticized. In fact some of those opposing her appointment to the Supreme Court use this as their reason. But is that fair given the facts?

Going to jail can be traumatic for anyone, but when you're a teenager who hasn't really committed a crime that warrants incarceration, and you are sent to a detention center anyway, something has to be fishy.

Britain's judges should be the very people, the UK population should trust, but when murderers are getting out of prison faster, we may have to think again.

Judges and lawyers in Uganda are on strike to protest at the recent raid on the High Court by armed forces.

According to Steven Truscott's lawyer, James Lockyer, "The causes are as infinite as there are cases."

A federal judge ruled Friday that California's ban on sex offenders living within 2,000 feet of places where children gather can't be applied retroactively.

A Superior Court of Ontario judge ruled that enormous trial delays, undisclosed Crown evidence, and a cast of stunningly untrustworthy Crown witnesses drawn from the Eastern Ontario underworld had rendered the entire proceeding unconstitutional.