PARIS: A French court in Paris has granted Pavel Durov, the Founder of Telegram, conditional bail. Durov is facing criminal charges in France and is currently not allowed to leave the country while the investigation continues. French police arrested Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and CEO of Telegram, at Le Bourget airport near Paris on […]
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 criminal cases. The Department is updating the programme to enable electronic judgments in criminal cases […]
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 Ramani to court after she posted tweets and an article in Vogue Magazine levelling allegations […]
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 admission of guilt by proxy. And the rejection by the court of his defamation suit […]
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 legend Clint Eastwood made the 2018 film “The 15:17 to Paris” about the events of […]
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 her life. In a ruling that could severely damage Depp’s reputation and career, Judge Andrew […]
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 search and advertising company. “Today, millions of Americans rely on the Internet and online platforms […]
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 outside the courthouse, on the sidelines of a large protest of some 15,000 people. Reading […]
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 effect so Trump’s lawyers can appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. A district […]
