As reported by Indian media, Kiran Rao’s sophomore directorial venture, the critically acclaimed ‘Laapataa Ladies’ will be screened at the Supreme Court of India, on Friday, August 9. According to details, the special screening is organized by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, to raise awareness about gender equality among the judiciary and its staff. In addition […]
As per details, lawyers in Lahore staged a protest outside the Lahore High Court against the transfer of civil courts to Model Town court however the protest turned violent when police tried to disperse the protesting lawyers. The Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court had ordered the relocation of courts, whereas the lawyers announced […]
Judicial magistrate Shaista Kundi announced the verdict reserved earlier in the day. The court, however, rejected the request to produce the PTI founder in court. During the hearing, Imran’s counsel Naeem Panjotha stated that all cases against the ex-premier were limited to the extent of intimation. He was booked in multiple similar cases in one […]
It was asked that the court presided over by Justice Shehram Sarwar Chaudhry, set aside Marwat’s detention order and declare it to be invalid. The PTI leader’s release from the respondents in the case was also requested by the court until the petition’s resolution. Petitioner Khalid Lateef Khan, Marwat’s brother, submitted the appeal through prominent […]
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday rejected former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s appeals; against his convictions by an accountability court in the Avenfield. An IHC division bench comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani had reserved the decision; a day earlier after hearing the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) additional […]
Brangelina court drama has reached its climax as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been granted joint custody of their children. The couple has six children: Maddox,19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14 and 12-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox. John Ouderkirk, the private judge hired to supervise the case; has finally provided a decision on […]
The Supreme Court has ordered courts not to use inappropriate expressions for rape victims. To haul the sexual history of a rape survivor into a case of sexual abuse. “The courts should also stop the use of painfully inappropriate expressions; like ‘habituated to sex,’ ‘woman of easy virtue,’ ‘woman of loose moral character,’ and ‘non-virgin,’ […]
The United Kingdom’s highest court has ruled Shamima Begum, a woman who was stripped of her citizenship after fleeing to Syria to join ISIL (ISIS), should not be allowed to return to the country to challenge the decision, because she poses a security risk. Begum left London in 2015 when she was 15 and traveled […]
A German court on Wednesday sentenced an Iraqi preacher to more than 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking part in planning an attack in Germany and collecting funds and fighters for the Islamic State militant group. Prosecutors had accused the 40-year-old preacher, identified as Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah in court documents; of […]
South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions was suspended by a federal judge on Friday on its second day in effect. Judge Mary Geiger Lewis put a 14-day temporary restraining order on the law and will renew it until she can hold a more substantial hearing on March 9 to decide whether to keep it […]
