China issued strict new rules on reporting animal epidemics as it said deadly bird flu had been detected in two new locations, bringing the total numb...
WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen facing terrorism charges, accused the Bush administration Friday of playing games with the na...
It was one of those bread-and-butter cases that comes across the desks of law firms that steered Becker & Poliakoff toward China. In 1992, a Chine...
California's Lieutenant-Governor Cruz M Bustamante has honoured senior lawyer HS Phoolka with an achievement award and a state commendation for hi...
WASHINGTON -- Responding to a congressional uproar, the Bush administration said Monday that a secret domestic surveillance program had yielded intell...
(N.Y.) Fifteen gas stations statewide, including three controlled by oil companies, have been fined $63,500 for jacking up prices 25 percent or more a...
(UK) A radical overhaul of the rape laws, including a potential new definition of whether a woman is fit to give consent to sex, has been prepared by ...
(UK) The first comprehensive review of the law of murder for more than 50 years will recommend a fundamental change that would see many killings downg...
(UK) MPs have called for a tightening up of the proposed new offence of corporate manslaughter, to ensure justice for relatives of workers killed due ...
(UK) WESTERN Isles council has hit back at claims that it is banning gay marriages, and says it is fully complying with legislation on civil partnersh...