• Lawyers call on judges in Garrick Club to give up membership

    Exclusive: Letter with more than 60 signatories says membership ‘perpetuates systemic discrimination against women’A group of more than 60 lawyers in England and Wales have called on all judges who are members of the men-only Garrick Club to resign from it immediately, claiming membership is “incompatible with the core principles of justice, equality and fairness”.In an open letter, the barristers, solicitors and legal professionals say they have been concerned by recent reports in the Guardian...

  • Judges, lawyers flummoxed by Judge Cannon: 'Very, very troubling'

    Judges, lawyers flummoxed by Judge Cannon: 'Very, very troubling' (Second column, 9th story, link) Related stories:Longtime Trump employee: Mar-a-Lago culture would have led many to commit crimes

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    Judge recommends disbarment of ex-Trump election lawyer

    An attorney discipline judge in California has recommended that ex-Trump election lawyer John Eastman be disbarred, according to an opinion released on Wednesday.

  • Trump Lawyers Raise Alarms for Judge: 'Really Disconcerting'

    Donald Trump's lawyers' lack of a case to cite in order to back up their argument in the former president's hush money hearing on Monday raised alarms for Judge Juan Merchan.Merchan, who is presiding over the case, pressed Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, to cite a case to back up his prosecutorial misconduct claims. He noted that Blanche has accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of misconduct, and himself, as being "complicit" in it. When pressured to provide a case, Blanche admitted...

  • Descendant of Victorian colonial family calls for removal of monuments to her ancestors

    Suzannah Henty says the spray-painting of monuments shows they continue to have a damaging impact on Indigenous peopleFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA descendant of the Henty family – regarded as Victoria’s earliest European settlers – has called for monuments memorialising her ancestors in Victoria’s south-west region to be removed.Suzannah Henty, an art historian whose work focuses on anti-colonial...

  • Judge recommends conservative lawyer John Eastman be disbarred in California

    A California judge recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman be disbarred in the state over his role in developing a legal strategy to help President Donald Trump stay in power after his 2020 election loss.

  • John Eastman, Trump's former lawyer, should be disbarred, judge rules

    John Eastman, the former Orange County law school dean who helped forge Donald Trump’s legal strategy for retaining power after the 2020 election, should be disbarred, a State Bar Court judge ruled Wednesday. "It is true that an attorney has a duty to engage in zealous advocacy on behalf of a client," wrote the judge, Yvette Roland. "However, Eastman's inaccurate assertions were lies that cannot be justified as zealous advocacy." Roland's recommendation to yank the 63-year-old Eastman’s license...

  • Cat 'abandoned in labour' in Coventry looking for new home with her kittens

    Bianca was described as a 'fantastic mum' in 'desperate need of a loving home'

  • Zuma fails in latest bid to remove Downer from graft trial

    Jacob Zuma's latest attempt to have the lead prosecutor in his corruption

  • Suit to prevent removal of controversial Kentucky mural dismissed by judge

    A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by award-winning writer Wendell Berry and his wife to stop the University of Kentucky from removing a mural that has been the object of protests for its depictions of Black people and Native Americans. But the ruling also protects the artwork. The lawsuit was filed in 2020 after Eli Capilouto, the university president, announced that the mural would be coming down. Painted in the 1930s by Ann Rice O’Hanlon, the fresco mural shows the history of Lexington in...

  • Judge Cannon could be 'removed from the case altogether' after latest stunt: report

    U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon could be removed from a classified documents case against Donald Trump, according to a report. On Monday, Cannon shocked experts by proposing jury instructions that would suggest that a president had sole authority to declare documents a personal record, essentially dismissing the case against Trump. Daily Beast columnist Ray Brescia wrote Tuesday that Cannon is on track to lose jurisdiction of the case. "[O]ver the last six months, a slow-moving...

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    Opinion: Georgia judge got the Fani Willis call right

    Opinion by Norman Eisen, E. Danya Perry and Joshua Kolb (CNN) — Georgia Judge Scott McAfee has continued his run of Solomonic decisions in his ruling Friday rejecting the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is overseeing the case accusing former President Donald Trump and a group of his associates of election interference in