Fine, as a form of punishment under Indian Penal Law, is a pecuniary penalty imposed by the court upon conviction of an offender. It is one of the recognized punishments under Section 53 of the Indian ...

Decree-Law No. 9 of 2025 has been issued, repealing Article 153 of the Penal Code, which was originally enacted under Law No.

Panaji: Prosecutions must not be launched to stifle agitations that are part of the democratic process, as long as people do ...

The Supreme Court has repeatedly interpreted Article 21 (Right to Life) to include the right to live with dignity, which extends to prisoners as well. Articles 14, 15, 17, and 23 also provide ...

House of Reps has said that a bill to amend Nigeria’s Penal and Criminal Codes, aiming to abolish or reduce the use of the ...

Nigerian Christian leaders are seeking clemency for a Christian farmer given the death sentence for killing a Fulani herdsman ...

The use of the slur in public to invoke violence clearly qualifies as hate speech. Its use in other contexts may be more ...

The authors write "The first two months of the Trump Administration have brought deep and widespread changes to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Those changes will likely affect most aspects of the ...

The financial industry increasingly uses artificial intelligence (“AI”) to raise business efficiencies, improve customer experience, and limit ...

Texas Senate OKs bill to outlaw AI-generated child sex abuse material. Lawmakers say it'll be another tool to crack down on child exploitation.

The General Secretariat of the Committees for Resolution of Securities Disputes (GS-CRSD) announced that the Appeal Committee ...

There is a lot to say about the recent case making headlines in Bangladesh, whereby a man who has been accused of harassing a ...