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Nandini Panwar, BA. LL.B., Thakur Ramnarayan College of Law, Mumbai ABSTRACT This paper is an attempt to understand and analyse the Supreme Court's Constitution Bench decision in Gayatri Balasamy v. ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited, which has finally put to rest one of the most persistently contested questions in Indian arbitration law: can a court actually modify an arbitral award, or is it lim…

A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge dismissed murder charges Friday against ex-LAPD Officer Clifford Proctor in the 2015 shooting death of Brendon Glenn, an unarmed homeless man.

Paul Quinn, 52, to serve 24 years for attack that led to one of worst miscarriages of justice in modern British history A man who evaded justice for nearly two decades has been jailed for 21 years for a “savage” rape for which Andrew Malkinson was wrongly imprisoned. Paul Quinn, 52, was found guilty of the 2003 attack in Salford after a fresh forensic analysis found traces of his DNA on the victi…

In the aftermath of suspected chemical attacks, investigators from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) step in to collect chemical, environmental and biomedical samples.

Former student Almunthir Daqamah, 21, due to appear in court on Friday while campus safety officer is in stable condition in hospital A man has been charged with attempted murder after a staff member was shot with a crossbow at the University of Surrey. Almunthir Daqamah, 21, a Saudi national, has been charged with attempted murder, possession of an offensive weapon, two counts of possession of a…

The shocking South Malaka murder case in Prayagraj stunned residents after four members of the same family were found dead inside their home and commercial premises. What initially appeared to be a confusing multiple-homicide scene with misleading messages soon transformed into a case study of forensic investigation, crime scene reconstruction, and behavioral analysis. Police say […] The post Sou…

The family of Mark and Jacob Iskander, 11 and 8, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Rebecca Grossman and Scott Erickson claiming negligence in the fatal crash that killed the two brothers.

Helen Spree, 63, headed prison watchdog and was said to have become besotted with killer Dylan Westall, 35 A corrupt prison watchdog boss who billed herself “the prisoners’ Deliveroo” has been jailed for five years after admitting sending sexual messages to a killer inmate and smuggling drugs. Helen Spree, 63, was the head of the independent monitoring board (IMB) for HMP Liverpool when she engag…

Witness B said in police interview that she pretended to be asleep when allegedly abused as a child A jury in Northern Ireland has heard details of the alleged rape of a child by the former Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson. A police interview with the complainant was played to Newry crown court in Northern Ireland on Tuesday on the sixth day of the former MP’s trial for al…

_Judicial Analytics and Historical Modeling Review_. 2023Judicial prediction has progressed from feature-based court-outcome studies to neural and benchmark-driven legal language understanding. Yet many published evaluations still mix outcome identification, retrospective categorization, and prospective forecasting. This paper presents a chronology-scoped framework for historical judicial analysi…

IntroductionEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a first-line psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. Despite its established clinical efficacy, concerns have been raised regarding its potential effects on autobiographical memory and testimonial reliability in judicial contexts. Given the reconstructive nature of memory, this study aimed to examine how Italian courts …

_Proceedings of the Workshop on Ai for Evidential Reasoning Co-Located with the 38Th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (Jurix 2025)_ 1. 2025We probabilify the scenario approach to legal proof. The scenario approach searches for the scenario that strikes the best balance in explaining the available evidence, in fitting to general background beliefs, and in its deg…

Vickrum Digwa, 23, who fatally stabbed Henry Nowak, 18, to serve at least 20 years before being eligible for parole A man with a “weapon obsession” has been jailed for life for murdering a university student with a 21cm-long knife that he claimed to be carrying for religious reasons. Vickrum Digwa, 23, who stabbed 18-year-old Henry Nowak five times, will serve at least 20 years before being eligi…

ABSTRACT The integration of forensic science into criminal investigations has fundamentally changed the criminal justice landscape, shifting the focus from subjective human narratives to verifiable scientific proof. Among these specialised fields, forensic ballistics plays an important role in tracking firearm-related crimes. By evaluating firearms, ammunition, bullet trajectories, and gunshot re…

Dr. Mamta Kumari, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, ICFAI University Yashpreet Kaur, LL.M., Faculty of Law, ICFAI University ABSTRACT In Indian criminal trials, debates focus on the validity of electronic evidence and wrongful convictions as a matter of complexity, justice, and restraint. This paper discusses the Indian judiciary's position on prosecutions based on mobile data, call logs, and …

Aditi Naik, Jindal Global Law School Facts: A "plot buyer agreement" was signed on August 14, 1985, between DLF Universal Ltd. and Anr., the respondent in the present case (henceforth referred to as the "respondent"), the first defendant, and the original plaintiff, Harshad Chiman Lal Modi, the appellant in the present case (henceforth referred to as the "appellant"). The arrangement was for the …

Sathiya S, LL.M. (Hons), School of Excellence in Law, The Tamilnadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai ABSTRACT Bills of lading are the most important documents in the world of international trade and carriage of goods by sea. A bill of lading works as a receipt of goods, a document of title, and also as evidence of the contract of carriage between the shipper and the carrier. In modern shippin…

Anthony Odiong is charged with exploiting his status as clergyman to pursue sex with female parishioners to whom he was providing spiritual direction A jury of eight women and four men in Texas began deliberating a verdict on Friday afternoon in the trial of a Roman Catholic priest charged with illegally exploiting his status as a clergyman to pursue sex with female parishioners to whom he was pr…

Prosecutors say an ICE agent fired into a Minneapolis home occupied by four adults and two children, then falsely claimed he acted in self-defense. He was arrested Friday in Texas.

DNA testing proved Anthony Odiong fathered child with woman to whom he had been providing spiritual guidance, authorities say Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Texas prosecutors on Thursday established that a Roman Catholic priest being tried there on charges that he illegally exploited his status as a priest to pursue sex with three spiritually vulnerable congregants had a child …