Judges in Almelo have ordered two online gambling companies to reimburse two punters for their losses, because they don’t have a licence to operate in the Netherlands. It is the first time a Dutch court has ordered an unlicenced company to hand money back to players. In each case the player had lost around €200,000 and the ruling, lawyer Benzi Loonstein told reporters, is “ground-breaking”. Bwin and PokerStars admit they did not have a licence to offer online gambling in
Critics of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa say behind remarks is lack of national recognition that slavery should be discussed in schoolsPortugal needs to “pay the costs” of slavery and other colonial-era crimes, the country’s president has said, in a rare instance of a European leader seemingly backing the need for reparations.Portugal has long grappled with calls by campaigners to address its legacy as the European country with the longest historical involvement in the slave trade. During the span of...
CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses rape. Bruce Lehrmann went back to the lion’s den for his hat, and left with the new titles of “rapist” and “loser” — a privilege that could potentially cost him millions of dollars. So how much will Bruce Lehrmann pay for losing his defamation trial? In a historic end to the defamation case between Lehrmann and Network 10, Justice Michael […]
Perhaps the most striking thing about Monday’s opening of former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial was the juxtaposition between the extraordinary and the humdrum, with the judge and jury going through all the usual motions that I have seen hundreds of times – but doing them with a former president in the dock for the first time ever. Tuesday morning, however, will be something I have never seen before in my three decades of criminal law practice. After court comes into session at 9:30...
The European Court of Human Rights has found fault with the Netherlands for detaining a Syrian asylum seeker after he was released from prison. M B, as he is identified in court records, was convicted of membership of a terrorist organisation in 2016, despite the public prosecutor arguing he should be acquitted. Following his release from prison, the now 27-year-old was placed in immigration detention. His lawyer argued that, having served his sentence, placing him in further immigration...
A council said "mindless" damage to public toilets would cost thousands of
Columbia University students are calling for classes to become virtual and urging the administration to do more to assure public safety as anti-Israel protesters invade campus in a tent encampment. Columbia students Friday wrote in a letter that they do not feel safe as chaos descended upon the Ivy League campus. Anti-Israel protesters refuse to leave the "Gaza Solidarity'' tent encampment until the school meets their "demands" including divesting from companies that do business with the Jewish...
A federal judge has ordered the Kansas Highway Patrol to pay $2.3 million in attorney fees and other costs related to a lawsuit filed over the KHP’s “Kansas Two-Step” practice during traffic stops. The judgment is from
Outgoing Wipro CEO Thierry Delaporte is set to get a separation payment of Rs 92.1 crore (or about $11 million) after his ahead-of-schedule exit from India's fourth-biggest outsourcing company, joining a swelling list of top executives in the country's most globalized industry to have inked iron-clad job contracts that guarantee hefty severance packages. Pursuant to the terms of the employment arrangement with Mr. Delaporte, if his employment is terminated by the company without a cause, the...
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board, Hon Joseph Boahen Aidoo has raised critical concerns about the implementation of the new EU Regulations on Deforestation and its cost ramifications to farmers and producing countries.
The internet has been left fuming after hearing about a family of eight who did a runner after ordering £329 worth of food.
MiaoLan Lee filed a lawsuit back in 2021 alleging religious, racial and gender discrimination. She claims her white neighbors have been allowed to build without permits or get permits when they should have been denied.