Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US has been approved by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel. Mr Assange has 14 days to appeal the decision, the Home Office said.more
More than 40 athletes have filed lawsuits against the British Gymnastics Federation for physical and mental abuse by coaches, the Guardian reported.more
The flight scheduled for yesterday, on which the first group of illegal immigrants was to be deported from the UK to Rwanda, was canceled due to a last-minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.more
A Government minister has insisted that a first deportation flight taking refugees to Rwanda will go ahead next week, despite last-ditch attempts to stop it.more
A concerted effort is under way to position Ireland as a centre for international dispute resolution. While the potential for Dublin to become an international legal hub has been talked up in the wake of Brexit, efforts to turn that vision into a reality will gather pace today with the opening of the inaugural Dublin International Disputes Week (DIDW).more
The Assembly of the Republic, the unicameral parliament of Portugal, approved the laws on decriminalizing euthanasia proposed by four left-liberal groups in a vote on Thursday.more
A New York federal judge gave the go-ahead to the trial against Kevin Spacey, whom actor Anthony Rapp accused of sexual assault when Rapp was still a teenager. The trial begins on October 4. The decision came one week after the British Crown Prosecutor's Office announced that it had approved a prosecution against Kevin Spacey for four cases of sexual assault.more
The first hearing planned for yesterday in the trial of the former heads of football organizations FIFA and UEFA Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini did not take place due to the malaise of one of the accused.more
Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in the summer of 1996. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge the 70-year-old after a review of evidence gathered by the force.more
The Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens’ Rights Agreements (IMA) has launched an inquiry to establish whether the Home Office has fulfilled its obligation to issue a Certificate of Application immediately to EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) applicants.more
The documents provide new clarity about a much-talked-about but until now opaque process Amazon uses to punish associates it believes are wasting time.
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Gun stores in Canada are recording a sharp increase in sales, Canadian media reports. The increase is explained by the government's introduction of a bill restricting access to firearms. Canada's constitution does not guarantee the right to own a gun.more
Ryanair has been accused of racial discrimination for making South African nationals take a general knowledge test in Afrikaans to prove their nationality before being allowed to board its flights in the UK and the rest of Europe.more
Criminal acts of violence at GP surgeries across the UK have almost doubled in five years, new figures reveal, as doctors’ leaders warn of a perfect storm of soaring demand and staff shortages.more
French media say France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema has dropped his appeal against a conviction for complicity in blackmail in a sex-tape case.more
New York's state legislature has put forward 10 bills to tighten control of firearms. The state of New York already has some of the strictest laws in this regard in the US.more
Some Ukrainian refugees who have found work in the greenhouses of the Westland are being exploited by a Polish staffing agency and Dutch employers, union CNV has claimed.more
