CANTON – The St. Lawrence County’s Legislature Finance Committee passed a motion Monday night setting a date for a public hearing to review the salary of District Attorney Stephen D. Button. According to the resolution, a proposed local law will fix the district attorney’s salary. However, the law requires that any adoption of local laws … Read more
Durban: A Gauteng attorney was reported to the Legal Professional Council (LPC) after calling a lawyer “dressed like a ninja” during a virtual Concourt hearing on Thursday. The attorney Yasmin Omar von Zehir Omar Attorneys has since been charged with professional misconduct. During the online hearing, attorney Nazreen Bawa SC represented the Women’s Legal Center … Read more
General Manager Benjamin Madsen defied orders from the Lincoln-Lancaster County Department of Health to shut down Madsen’s bowling & billiards. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star File Photo An attorney for Madsen’s Bowling & Billiards and others charged with alleged violations of Lincoln’s health care policies went on trial Friday to persuade a judge to call the … Read more
The alleged murderer Michael Roebuck’s attorney requests bail for his client before setting a trial date. Roebuck’s defense attorney Kim Ross said in court Jan. 1, according to a report by the Calgary Herald. The alleged murderer Michael Roebuck’s attorney requests bail for his client before setting a trial date. According to a report by … Read more
One of the many highlights of President Joe Biden’s inaugural address was his promise that “we can achieve racial justice.” The Biden government wasted no time in backing up executive action and issued several orders promoting racial justice. But “personnel is politics”, as the saying goes. And just as important as the new direction these … Read more
Details Category: Local News Posted: Wednesday 27 January 2021 12:26 PM Written by Keith Leask Defense attorney for an Airdrie man charged with first degree murder in the death of another man in town is requesting a bail hearing before a trial date is set. On September 7, 2019, a large police presence responded to … Read more
CONCORD, NH (AP) – This time New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald spoke out again in front of a friendlier audience on why he should be the next Chief Justice of the state’s Supreme Court. Republican Governor Chris Sununu nominated MacDonald for the second time last month, almost a year and a half after the … Read more
WINNIPEG – A Manitoba judge has postponed Peter Nygard’s bail – a move Nygard’s attorneys claim is playing Russian roulette with his health in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak in Manitoba prisons. The bail hearing comes after Nygard was arrested by RCMP officers on December 14 in Winnipeg. He was arrested under Section 13 … Read more
More than two months before the evidence hearing on Stewart Parnell’s motion to have his conviction overturned and convicted, his appellate attorneys and the government dispute the ground rules. On December 7, the government asked the court to “set a reasonable time limit for the parties to exchange lists of exhibitions and witnesses. . . … Read more
Hearing for new trial in hot auto death The first day of the hearing for a new lawsuit in Cooper Harris’s hot auto death. COBB COUNTY, Ga – – Ross Harris’ attorneys said there were many errors during the father’s 2016 murder trial in Cobb County and they are asking a judge to retry. In … Read more