LONDON >> Hugh Grant accepted “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him, the actor said Wednesday after the agreement was announced in court.
More than 40 lawsuits taken against the operators of a creche over the alleged mistreatment of children have been settled.
Donald Trump took a swipe Wednesday at the judge overseeing his New York hush money trial, accusing him of thinking he is "above the Supreme Court." Speaking to Fox News, Trump slammed Judge Juan Merchan, accusing of "prohibiting" the former president from attending arguments Thursday on presidential immunity and calling it "the most important case in many years" before the high court. Trump had requested be he allowed to attend arguments at the Supreme Court about Trump's immunity on Thursday,...
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Composer Ilaiyaraaja and private recording company Echo Recording Pvt. Ltd. are in a legal tussle over 4500 songs at the Madras High Court. Making a strong statement on Wednesday, the court stated that Ilaiyaraaja cannot claim sole ownership of the work, as numerous players come together to create a song, according to Live Law. (Also Read: Ilaiyaraaja shares an old, adorable black-and-white picture with his late daughter Bhavatharini)Madras High Court’s statementAccording to the website, the...
The Madras High Court has made a strong statement in the context of the dispute between Tamil music icon Ilaiyaraaja and a private recording company, Echo. The High Court bench comprising Justice Mahadevan and Justice Muhammad Sadiq observed that Ilaiyaraaja cannot claim sole ownership of songs as lyrics play a vital part in them. In the context of the appeal, the bench observed that there are no songs without lyrics. It further claimed that many other factors contribute to a song like the voice...
The mogul has taken these hacking allegations out of the public arena. Use this moment to craft reforms that can be trustedTrue crime dramas, in which nobody wins but the lawyers, are not the kind of films that made Hugh Grant famous. His starring role in the long-running legal action against the Sun newspaper for phone hacking instead proves that real life is far more flawed and frustrating than film.After more than a decade of leading a campaign against what he called the “worst excesses of...
Elizabeth Vamplew, 77, died in a fire at her Newark home in December 2021. Her daughter-in-law, Karen Vamplew, 43, also of Newark, is accused of murder. The prosecution alleges that she killed the elderly lady for inheritance money
A Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja has ordered the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, to appear in court on May 13, 2024, to show cause why an order of committal should not be made against him for allegedly disobeying court order.
Justices appeared unlikely to grant request for absolute immunity from criminal prosecution to former presidentKey takeaways from Trump immunity caseSign up for our free Trump on Trial newsletterThe US supreme court on Thursday expressed interest in returning Donald Trump’s criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election back to a lower court to decide whether certain parts of the indictment were “official acts” that were protected by presidential immunity.During oral arguments, the...
Several Supreme Court justices yesterday seemed disturbingly open to far too wide a scope of supposed presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. Almost nothing in the actual text of the Constitution provides for such immunity. At oral argument in Trump v. United States, Justice Clarence Thomas asked the right question of Trump’s attorney, John Sauer: “Could […]
On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in the alleged election interference case, which was put on hold in February.Thursday morning, Trump told reporters, "A president has to have immunity," the Associated Press reported."If you don't have immunity, you just have a ceremonial president," he added.The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case and consider "whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy...