Courts across the Malaysian states of Sabah, Sarawak, and the national capital city of Kuala Lumpur have used an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) system to determine and assign sentences in criminal cases since February 2020, with the pilot program set to end by April 2022, the digital news platform Mashable Southeast Asia reported on Wednesday.
“Sir, do you work for the state?” a police officer years ago asked as he rushed down the hall to catch up to Rep. Bill Batchelder (R-OH) when he walked past security in the Ohio statehouse. “No,” the conservative lawmaker replied. “I work against it.”
Tahra Ahmed was jailed following antisemitic Facebook posts in which she branded a deadly apartment fire as a “Jewish Sacrifice”.
Meghan Markle will be paid just £1 in a court settlement against by Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) who own the Mail on Sunday.
A transgender paedophile who identifies as a 5-year-old girl has attended court dressed as an elf following a breach of his sexual harm order.
A German court has ruled that a man who broke his back while moving from his bed to his home office was commuting and is owed compensation.
An 18-year-old migrant from Morocco has pleaded not guilty to raping a woman on the steps of the Copenhagen court where he is set to face trial for the alleged attack.
Police have arrested 28-year-old Reginald Bellot on charges stemming from a July 27 rape of a 70-year-old Bronx woman. Bellot faces counts of rape, strangulation, menacing and unlawful imprisonment, predatory sexual assault, and a criminal sex act.
The Twentieth Judicial Circuit of Virginia is ordering the Loudoun County School Board in Virginia to immediately reinstate a gym teacher who was placed on leave after opposing transgender polices at a school board meeting last month.
The home and justice secretaries have drawn up plans to fast-track the judicial system so that Black Lives Matter vandals and violent far-left protesters can be jailed within 24 hours.
Police have charged a man from Huddersfield, England, with left-wing terrorism offences. Dominic Noble, 32, appeared in court on Monday.
The Supreme Court has told the administration that it can keep sending migrants back to Mexico pending the final decision in a lawsuit against the “Remain in Mexico” policy.
An animal rights activist has won a case of wrongful dismissal by his former employer over his “ethical veganism”. The tribunal judge had earlier ruled that his dietary preference was a philosophical belief and deserved protection from discrimination like other ‘protected characteristics’ like faith, race, or sexual orientation.
A federal appeals court released $3.6 billion in border wall funding Wednesday that had been blocked by a lawsuit.
Between 25 per cent and 40 per cent of British courts are empty, with the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirming that it has cut the number of sitting days for judges by 15 per cent.
Attorney Michael Avenatti has filed a claim against Stormy Daniels alleging she owes him more than $2 million in unpaid legal fees.
A mentally disabled man who does not understand consent and who presents a “moderate risk” of sexually assaulting women has a “fundamental right to sex”, a court has ruled.
A Christian who was expelled from his university for expressing a biblical view on marriage has celebrated winning his latest legal battle, calling it a victory for freedom of speech and religious conscience.
Emojis are increasingly common in court cases, and the meanings behind these emojis are reportedly being argued during trials.
Bob Woodward criticized CNN for suing the White House over the temporary suspension of reporter Jim Acosta’s “hard pass” press credential.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is helping the radical group MoveOn.org group raise money for an “emergency campaign” to “stop” the potential confirmation to the Supreme Court of nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
A Canadian journalist associate of Tommy Robinson is under police investigation for filming the right-wing activist waving at fans from a window after his appearance in court this Thursday.
Large crowds have gathered outside the Old Bailey as activist Tommy Robinson appeared in court accused of contempt of court.
Actress Piper Perabo was arrested while protesting Supreme Court judge nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday, she announced on Monday.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s niece avoided jail on Thursday after a Manhattan Criminal Court judge sentenced her to two years’ probation for stealing more than $100,000 in a credit card scam.
More than 300 rape convictions will be reviewed after concerns about politically correct police being “hostile” to men and “deliberately” withholding evidence to send them to jail.
“Society is continuously changing and family structures are changing along with it,” wrote Justice Robert Fowler of the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court’s family division in his decision, reports the Canadian Press. “This must be recognized as a reality and not as a detriment to the best interests of the child.”
Senate Republicans are launching an aggressive push to confirm as many of President Trump’s judicial nominees as possible before the midterm elections, including confirming two new judges – Michael Brennan and Kurt Engelhardt – to the powerful federal appeals courts this week.
LONDON (AP) — Alfie Evans, a British toddler with a degenerative brain condition whose parents lost a legal battle to keep him on life support at a Vatican hospital, was mourned with balloons set free in the sky and prayers from the pope after he died Saturday weeks shy of his second birthday.
BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s Constitutional Court says it will consider whether a third gender should be an option for official records, taking up the case of a person who unsuccessfully sought to have their entry changed to “inter” or a similar word.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) sued the State of Florida late Friday, asserting that the state’s changing the age for purchasing all firearms from 18 to 21 violates the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
A GoFundMe page for a sexual abuse victim’s father who in court Friday lunged at disgraced U.S. Olympics Gymnastics Dr. Larry Nassar, received more than $31,000 in donations in 24 hours.
A San Francisco federal appeals court ruled Twitter is not responsible for the ISIS murder of two Americans.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday in favor of Joan Larsen and Amy Coney Barrett to be federal appeals judges. Pundits say this committee action increases pressure on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans to reform procedural roadblocks so that senators can vote on the Senate floor to confirm the growing number of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees.
A motorcycle club is making it their mission to support victims of child abuse who are testifying in court against their abusers.
City attorneys in San Francisco and Oakland, California, sued five oil companies in two coordinated lawsuits on Tuesday, arguing that the courts should hold these companies responsible for climate change, and force them to financially compensate the cities for harm the plaintiffs claim those companies are causing to the planet’s environment.
There is a growing backlash from adherents of multiple faiths to Senate Democrats’ raising the religious faiths of President Donald Trump’s nominees to determine whether the Senate should confirm them, citing such objections as a flagrant violation of the Constitution’s Religious Test Clause.
A man accused of preaching strict sharia law on London’s Oxford Street has been ordered to stand in court by a judge after saying he only answered to Allah.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court has ruled that authorities are entitled to deport an Algerian man suspected of posing a risk of a terrorist attack.
A former Connecticut high school teacher appeared in court Tuesday alongside her husband after she was accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old special education student.
