01.10.2024 The Higher Administrative Court decided today that additional provisions to approval notices for Corona emergency aid in North Rhine-Westphalia cannot be repealed in isolation. According to a statement from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, corresponding additional provisions were attached to all of the approximately 430,000 approval notices for NRW emergency aid 2020 issued between … Read more
An Austrian court has held a woman responsible for the death of her neighbor as a result of a corona infection. The Klagenfurt Regional Court concluded that the 54-year-old defendant had infected the cancer-stricken man in December 2021. As a result, she was sentenced to a suspended sentence of four months for gross negligence in … Read more
The city of Los Angeles, founded 285 years ago, has had a key institution in the administration of justice since its beginnings: the public prison, which has housed different criminals. Over time, this site has been in various locations, witnessing urban evolution and the historical events that have marked the commune. In its early days, … Read more
The Lucerne government wants to relax the ban on mobile phones in prisons (symbolic image). (Image: Adobe Stock) The canton of Lucerne wants to relax the rules for open prisons. Specifically, some inmates should be allowed to own a cell phone. This is a first for Switzerland – but it comes with conditions. Along with … Read more
30.08.2024 Petra Heckenkemper is the new Vice President of the Cologne Finance Court. The President of the Cologne Finance Court, Dr. Jürgen Hoffmann, presented her with the certificate of appointment today. Petra Heckenkemper was born in Rheda-Wiedenbrück in 1967. After graduating from high school, she first completed a dual degree course in the financial administration … Read more
In today’s edition of a Styrian daily newspaper there is an article about the tragic deaths of inmates in Graz prisons. Among other things, the article quotes the demand of the state governor Christopher Drexler (ÖVP) that the Green Justice Minister Alma Zadic to ensure better staffing. The FPÖ has also announced a parliamentary inquiry … Read more
ANP NOS Nieuws•gisteren, 17:23 The court docket in Almelo right this moment sentenced six extra rioters to jail or neighborhood service. 4 males will serve two to a few months in jail. Two others got a neighborhood service order of 240 hours with a suspended jail sentence of 1 to a few months. As well … Read more
A prison sentence until 2039 did not stop drug criminal Tom W. from smuggling 63 kilos of cannabis from Spain in 2020 among the loads of ham and olive oil. Between October 2021 and May 2022, a certain RT from Hasselt even managed to supply the entire Hasselt prison with drugs, even though he himself … Read more
United States The judge presiding over the criminal trial in New York has again fined Donald Trump for violating the gag order. But because the fines seem to have little impact, Juan Merchan is now also threatening to lock up the ex-president. On the twelfth day of the hush money trial, Judge Juan Merchan said … Read more
A Buddhist monk has been sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Sri Lanka’s minority Muslim community. Colombo High Court judge Aditya Patabendige sentenced Galagodathe Gnanasara for making derogatory remarks against Islam during a press conference in 2016. The court order released on March 28 has been reported by various media including news agency … Read more