Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes before the victim eventually died.
A district court in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik has ruled in seven separate cases last week that forcing people to stay in hotel quarantine is illegal. According to a statement on the government website, the court ruled that forcing passengers coming from other countries to stay in quarantine hotels “lacks legal basis.” The government […]
A New York parent who wants to marry their own adult offspring is suing the state to overturn laws that ban incest, arguing that their “individual autonomy” is being infringed. According to court papers, as reported by the New York Post, the parent has requested to remain anonymous, because they are aware that their request […]
A Brazilian woman who worked as a rickshaw driver in Dublin, and who was ordered by the court to leave the country or spend a year in prison for dealing ecstasy tablets, is still living in Ireland three years later and is collecting the Covid Pandemic Unemployment Payment, a court has heard. Bianca Francisco […]
Portugal’s top court has rejected a bill seeking to legalise Assisted Suicide, where patients could seek assistance from a doctor to end their lives. On Monday, the country’s Constitutional Court blocked the law, which had been passed by parliament, saying it was imprecise and it threatened the principle of “inviolability of life”. The judges rejected […]
A Moroccan immigrant who broke into a woman’s house and sexually assaulted her in a terrifying ordeal, was released from custody prior to the attack – despite a previous crime spree – because he applied for asylum in this country. Ibrahim Elghynaoui broke in through the window of a woman’s bedroom as she slept and […]
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster has said that the DUP will be launching a legal challenge to the Northern Ireland protocol of the EU-UK Brexit deal. The North’s First Minister said that she would be joining ranks with “like-minded” unionists, including Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib, Labour party’s Kate Hoey, and Jim Allister, for […]
Facebook through their subsidiary, Instagram, may have made a major strategic blunder in pursuing their policy of being the ‘truth czars’ of world thought, says top civil rights lawyer, Robert Barnes. Instagram recently de-platformed Robert F Kennedy Jr, but then went to the point of releasing a press statement explaining why they deplatformed him. The […]
Lynsey Bennett, who is terminally ill with cervical cancer, has spoken of her heart-break at facing her death and leaving her young daughters behind. Speaking outside the High Court, where the HSE had agreed to settle her case over the reading of her smear tests, Ms Bennett broke down in tears when speaking of how […]
The District Court of Warsaw has ruled that a Polish man who is a coma in a British hospital is legally incapacitated and, at the request of the Warsaw Prosecutor’s office, has approved that he be brought to Poland for treatment. The Warsaw prosecutor’s press office announced that “The District Court in Warsaw, at the […]
Frederick Hunt, 74, pleaded guilty in the Dublin Circuit Court this week to producing and distributing hundreds of images of child pornography. Hunt, who is a retired Irish Times employee, was also found to have carried out illegal activities on his work computer in the Irish Times building in Dublin. He pleaded guilty to seven […]
In the wake of Cardinal George Pell’s successful appeal to the High Court of Australia, and his release from jail after 404 days, several books purporting to be “investigative journalism” have appeared about this astonishing miscarriage of justice. All of them have been hostile towards Pell. After reading The Persecution of George Pell, by Keith Windschuttle, it […]