Judges and officials are stepping down as changes designed to streamline China's judicial system prompt concerns about long hours, low pay and the pressure of work.
A court's apology to 19 people sentenced for fraud but later found to be innocent has won widespread approval among judicial specialists.
An Iranian court on Monday tried a Washington Post reporter for the fourth time over spying and propaganda charges, official IRNA news agency reported.
An Australian nurse has been charged with terrorism-related offenses in a Melbourne court on Monday following his return to Australian from Islamic State(IS) held territory in the Middle East.
Jeffrey Webb, former vice president of FIFA, Saturday has pleaded not guilty to racketeering and bribery charges in a federal court hearing in Brooklyn, New York, local media reported.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Thursday a policeman to 15 years in prison over the death of a female protester during a leftist march earlier this year, official MENA news agency reported.
A U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday said a National Security Agency (NSA) program that collected the records of millions of Americans' phone calls was not authorized by Congress.
An Indian court on Wednesday sentenced Bollywood actor Salman Khan to five years in jail for running over pavement dwellers with his car in Mumbai nearly 13 years back.
Former vice chief of Sichuan provincial committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Li Chuncheng, stood trial on Thursday at a court in Xianning City in central China's Hubei Province.
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 11 people to death over bloody riots during a soccer game in Port Said city in February 2012, state-run MENA news agency reported.
Jiang Jiemin, former head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, went on trial Monday for corruption, a local court said.
Thailand's Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Office on Thursday decided to accept a criminal case against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra for alleged malfeasance in a controversial rice-pledging scheme.
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday refused to grant indefinite exemption to former President Pervez Musharraf from appearance in a murder case of a tribal chief, lawyers said.
The Egypt's State Lawsuits Authority appealed Wednesday against a recent court order listing the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Italy's supreme court on Tuesday upheld former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's acquittal from charges of having sex with an underage prostitute and abusing his power to cover it up.
The First Circuit Court of the Supreme People's Court heard its first dispute on Monday in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, a move designed to ease the burden on the country's top court.
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday ruled an electoral law article which regulates the division of the electoral districts of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections as unconstitutional, a ruling that may delay the vote set for March 21, state-run Nile TV reported.
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