All news on the topic: Courts

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Milan prosecutors allege that hacked information from state security databases was sold to wealthy clients
Italian probe reveals “gigantic and alarming market of confidential data,” prosecutors say.
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Twelve e-bike fire survivors sue London landlords and the battery manufacturer
Legal action follows fire that killed a man in overcrowded Shadwell flat, believed to be the first case of its kind involving e-bikes.
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Colorado man sues McDonald’s over E. coli illness
A Colorado man has filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against McDonald’s over an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others.
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Inside sick ’human butchery’ ring who made £300,000 from ’testicle salads’ and live castrations
As the Court of Appeal has ruled that convicted members of an extreme body modification gang can challenge their appeals, the Mirror takes a look inside the twisted group of ’eunuch makers’, whose leader kept his penis in a drawer
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BHP accused of dodging responsibility for Brazilian dam collapse, UK court hears
BHP (BHP.AX), opens new tab is cynically trying to avoid its responsibility for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, lawyers representing thousands of victims told London’s High Court on Monday, as a lawsuit worth up to 36 billion pounds ($47 billion) began.
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Woman admits to throwing milkshake at Nigel Farage
A woman has pleaded guilty to throwing a milkshake over Nigel Farage.
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Murky world of ’hitmen for hire’ sites revealed, featuring a ’kill list’ individual who paid $50,000 to inject his ex with heroin
Chillingly the man who shone a light onto the murder-for-hire plot warns scores of Brits may not know they are on a ’kill list’ too...
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Stephen Cox: GP found guilty of indecently assaulting women during ’routine examinations’
Stephen Cox was convicted of 12 counts and acquitted of four at Reading Crown Court, where the jury heard he took "sexual gratification" from indecently touching his female victims during a nine-year period from 1988 to 1997.
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A rapist who posed as a taxi driver charged his victim a £20 "fare" after the assault
Three men who preyed on and raped a lone woman have been sentenced to a combined total of 25 years in prison.
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Google wins legal battle to overturn substantial fine in EU digital advertising case
The European Union’s General Court said it was throwing out the 2019 penalty imposed by the European Commission.
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Huw Edwards: Former BBC presenter given suspended sentence over indecent images of children
The disgraced newsreader was told his "reputation is in tatters" as he was sentenced on three charges, after receiving 41 illegal images from a convicted paedophile.
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Manchester rioter’s mother must pay compensation equal to the cost of her £1,200 Ibiza trip
The boy was given a 12-month referral order after admitting violent disorder.
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Brain-damaged man jailed over shopkeeper’s murder finally has conviction quashed
A man with severe learning difficulties who was jailed for the murder of a shopkeeper in east London more than 30 years ago has said his ‘fight for justice is finally over’ after his conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal
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A barista stole £4,000 from the café where he worked by processing payments through his own card machine
A barista, Brandon Leung, 26, stole £4,000 from a café by using his own card machine to take customer payments. He spent months funneling the money into his bank account using a £70 SumUp chip and pin device.
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Samantha Fox threatened to knock out police officer’s teeth, court hears
The ex-glamour model told PC Ashley Smith "I know where you Iive", Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court heard.
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A former Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with rape and sexual assault of a woman he allegedly met while on duty
Mark Tyrrell, 55, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. It is claimed he met the alleged victim during the course of his policing duties.
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Lucy Connolly, a childminder from Northampton married to a Tory councillor, pleads guilty to inciting racial hatred
Connolly posted on X on the day of the Southport stabbings when false claims had spread on social media that the attacker was an illegal migrant.
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Australia sentences 29-year-old in worst sexual extortion case in history
An Australian court sentenced a 29-year-old man to 17 years in prison for coercing 286 victims from several countries, including 180 children, into performing sexually explicit acts on camera or video.
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Next shop workers win a landmark case after a six-year fight for equal pay
Chain may have to foot £30m bill after tribunal hears firm paid 3,500 sales staff lower hourly wage than warehouse workers
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Boy, 12, admits participating in two scenes of violent disorder in Manchester
Boy and another 12-year-old among string of offenders pleading guilty at courts in Manchester and Liverpool
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Thug who feebly shoved huge wheelie bins at riot police jailed for more than two years
Footage from the night shows Hodgson taking a run up as she attempts to roll the large dumpster towards the police. But, instead of hitting the nonplussed officers, it rolled to a pathetic halt several feet from them
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British crocodile expert Adam Britton jailed for raping, torturing and killing dozens of dogs
Britton, a renowned zoologist, was sentenced at the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Australia, by a judge who had to warn the gallery that details of his offences could cause a "nervous shock".
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Google violated antitrust laws to dominate online search, rules US judge
Ruling states ‘Google is a monopolist’ in decision that could have major implications for how people use the internet
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Tommy Robinson flees UK on Eurostar amid contempt of court proceedings
Far-right activist was detained under counter-terrorism powers on Sunday and was due to appear at high court