Search

French judges go on strike

Judges and lawyers across France went on massive strike last Wednesday, demanding changes in working conditions. The protesters were not satisfied with the excessive workload and the need to consider the maximum number of cases in the shortest possible ...

Russian judges banned from using obscene language

Last Friday, an information letter containing a ban for judges to use obscene language in the text of official documents was published on the official website of the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation,. According to its board, the opposite situation not only violates the law, but also contradicts ...

The daughter of an ex-judge in the Urals was sentenced to a year in prison

... a pre-trial detention center. The verdict itself has not yet entered into force and, most likely, it is worth waiting for its appeal. The trial in this case became headline-making. The mother of a 34-year-old ‘fraudster’, Irina Reutova, worked as a judge in Yuzhnouralsk for many years and retired in early 2021. This happened almost immediately after the criminal proceedings had began in the case of her daughter. It was the possible conflict of interests that became a reason for a trial to take place ...

A woman detained for an attack on judge released in Moscow

... magistrate on the arm and threatened her, reports MK . However, the video recordings, which were viewed during the investigation of the circumstances of the criminal case, brought clarity to the case. The cameras recorded that the woman did not approach the judge, which meant that there could be no question of any physical impact. At the same time, the process itself took place in a difficult and tense atmosphere. The result of the consideration was the acquittal of the driver.

Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation initiated a criminal case against a judge of arbitration court

A judge of the Moscow Arbitration Court is suspected of mediating in the transfer of a bribe. The case was transferred to the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow. The department is engaged ...

‘Raspberry Themis’ announced the worst lawyers of the year

... interaction’ in the case of the bankruptcy administrator Nadezhda Lagoda, who eventually asked to be relieved of her duties (case No.A33-32077 / 2020), having reported the essence of the conflict on Facebook. The most difficult for the experts were the ‘Judge’ and ‘Lawyer’ nominations. Voting on them continued until the end of the day at the site of the ‘Three Letters’ Telegram channel. Considering that the voting was anonymous, and any subscriber of the channel (there are about 14 thousand of them) ...

Art reproduction on a postal envelope insulted the court of Kuban

Yana Antonova, an activist from Krasnodar, is threatened with sanctions for legislative contempt. In the correspondence that the woman had with the court, she used a postal envelope with an art reproduction of the ‘Skinning a Corrupt Judge’ painting depicted on it. The original painting is a diptych completed by Gerard David in 1498. It is called ‘The Court of Cambyses’, depicting a famous plot described by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. According to the legend, the Persian ...

EUROPEAN COMMISSION TAKES POLAND TO COURT OVER CHANGES TO LEGAL SYSTEM

The European Commission (EC), which earlier criticized the scandalous legal act on the judicial system adopted in Poland, made a decision to file a claim with the European Court of Justice, defending the independence of Polish judges. The EC started to eliminate violations back in April 2020. According to TASS, the normative act, which has become the subject of such a serious investigation, came into effect in February last year. According to Didier Reinders, who is responsible ...

Sorted by relevance | Sort by date