Tag: Trial

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of writ petition by April 7 seeking trial of former dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf on charges of high treason under article 6 of the constitution as lawyers did not turn up.
Interestingly, Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Friday had rejected adjournment plea of federal government to adjourn case and observed that at least 16 adjournments had already been granted to the government but it failed to come up with

MILAN - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, his popularity plummeting as he faces a string of legal cases, appeared in court for the first time in eight years on Monday. Berlusconi, who faces charges in four separate trials in coming weeks including one for having sex with an underage prostitute, smiled and waved to supporters gathered outside the Milan tribunal as he left the building. Monday's hearing, over alleged fraud during the acquisition of television broadcasting

LONDON - Three Pakistan cricketers accused of spot-fixing in a Test match against England last year were on Thursday ordered to stand trial in a British court on May 20. Former captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir appeared at the court of the City of Westminster Magistrates for the first time since they were charged with conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments.
District Judge Howard Riddle said the allegations

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday dismissed four petitions challenging the immunity status of Raymond Davis, observing that the trial court had started hearing the case and the same court would decide on the immunity for the US national, who is accused of killing two Pakistani youths in Lahore. During Monday's proceedings at the LHC, it transpired from the mood of the LHC chief justice that the fate of Davis would be decided by the trial court of Additional District and

PARIS - Jacques Chirac on Monday became the first former French president to go on trial as a court heard charges that he embezzled public funds while he was mayor of Paris in the 1990s. The 78-year-old, one of France's most popular political figures, did not attend the start of the trial that will examine whether he misused public money to pay people working for his party ahead of a successful election bid.
Presiding judge Dominique Pauthe adjourned Monday's hearing after a few

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

KUALA LUMPUR - Lawyers for Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday said the young man accusing him of sodomy was a "passive homosexual" after multiple DNA profiles were found in medical tests. The sodomy trial, which resumed last week after a three-month hiatus, has heard evidence from a government chemist that there were multiple unidentified DNA profiles found in Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan's anus and trousers.
"That's half a football team (of DNA profiles) around

SIALKOT - The Sialkot District Bar Association (DBA) has urged the Pakistan government not to hand Raymond Davis over to the US, demanding his trial by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Pakistan. At a meeting chaired by DBA President Khalid Ali Chaudhary, the lawyers strongly condemned the Pakistan government's alleged soft corner for Raymond Davis because of America's pressure.
They expressed concern over the incident in which Shumaila, wife of Faheem, one of the victims,

ROME - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will go on trial in April over allegations that he paid a 17-year-old girl for sex and abused his power by trying to get her cleared of theft, a judge ruled on Tuesday. Granting a request by Milan magistrates, Judge Cristina Di Censo said the first hearing would take place on April 6, in a move that brings a long-running probe into the premier's private life to a head.
Following the announcement, the prime minister's camp reiterated

MILAN - Milan prosecutors on Wednesday requested an immediate trial for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, accused of abuse of power and having sex with an underage girl nicknamed Ruby the heartstealer.
In a statement released to the press, the prosecutors said they had "sent the examining magistrate a request for an immediate trial on the basis of sufficient evidence" for both offences. Chief prosecutor Edmondo Bruti Liberati and his fellow judges allege that the 74-year-old

LOS ANGELES - Television cameras will be allowed to film the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor next month as long as they do not interfere with proceedings, a judge said on Monday.
Los Angeles Superior Court judge Michael Pastor also moved forward the date of Dr. Conrad Murray's trial by four days to March 24, when jury selection will begin. The trial is expected to last about six weeks, lawyers for both sides say. Murray has pleaded not guilty, and is

LOS ANGELES - Financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford is unfit to stand trial on charges of running a seven-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme and needs treatment for a drug addiction, a US judge ruled Wednesday.
"The court finds Stanford is incompetent to stand trial at this time based on his apparent impaired ability to rationally assist his attorneys in preparing his defense," US District Judge David Hittner wrote in his ruling in Houston, Texas. "The court's finding that Stanford

ATHENS - Six out of nine Greeks accused of terror offences made a bid for freedom on Monday as they were waiting to be returned to their cells after refusing to attend their trial, the ANA news agency reported.
Dozens of supporters of the defendants also clashed with plain-clothes officers in the courtroom and police reinforcements were called in to restore order, a judicial source said. The nine and four others who are still at large and being tried in absentia are accused of

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday rejected two pleas seeking end of the trial of the assassin of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, Mumtaz Qadri, and a quashment of the FIR registered against him under Section 302 for killing Taseer.
The petitioner, Malik Zafar Awan advocate, in two separate petitions, pleaded before Justice Muhammad Anwar Kasi, that Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code applied to those who committed unjustified murder.

AARHUS - A Somali man charged with trying to kill the cartoonist behind the most controversial of the Danish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) only admitted to breaking in with an illegal weapon when his trial opened Wednesday.
Mohamed Geele, 29, had been set to appear before the district court in the central Danish town of Aarhus, but the hearing was moved to the larger Appeals Court to fit in the throngs of reporters and other onlookers who braved tight security to follow

LOS ANGELES - Courtney Love has been locked in a dispute with Dawn Simorangkir, a fashion designer who was demanding payment for a few thousand dollars worth of clothes.
So on March 17, 2009, Love took to her Twitter account and began hurling a stream of shocking insults at the designer known as the "Boudoir Queen." Love's tweets, which instantly landed in the Twitter feeds of her 40,000 or so followers (and countless others via retweets), announced that Simorangkir was a

LAHORE - The trial of Pakistan's three suspended players accused of spot fixing will begin today in Doha, Qatar.
ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal chairman Michael Beloff on Wednesday explained the procedures that will be adopted at the full hearing of players.
Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer are all set to face an anti-corruption tribunal from January 6 to 11 here with threat of life bans looming over.
Beloff, along with justice Albie Sachs from South