The Minister for Justice has confirmed that the Government has set up a second Special Criminal Court.

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo must stay in custody ahead of his trial on charges of orchestrating post-election violence in 2010, appeal judges at the International Criminal Court have said.

The Supreme Court will hear an urgent appeal aimed at delaying the murder trial of hunger-strike prisoner John Dundon later this month.

The proposed Oireachtas inquiry into the banking crisis could be undermined by the timing of the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick.

A jury in the trial of a former solicitor accused of deception have been discharged because of a legal issue.

The first democratically-elected president of the Maldives has resigned and been replaced by his vice president after the police and army clashed in the streets amid protests over the arrest of a top judge.

Tunisia’s former autocratic leader, whose downfall triggered uprisings in the Arab world, condemned his upcoming trial as a “shameful masquerade”, according to a statement.

Thailand’s government today lifted a state of emergency in three provinces but kept the decree in place in the capital, as anti-government protest leaders appeared at a Bangkok court to enter pleas on terrorism charges.

Eleven leaders of anti-government protests could face the death penalty after being charged today with terrorism during the worst political upheaval in modern Thai history.

Thailand’s Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on terrorism charges related to the country’s recent bloody protests.

Anti-government protesters in Thailand today stormed into a telecommunications company compound where authorities had shut down their vital TV channel, as soldiers and riot police attempted to hold them back with tear gas and water cannons.

A judge has held that the case of a youth, who allegedly attacked and injured a Garda after he had been arrested for joyriding, is too serious to be heard in the Children’s Court.

An Australian writer was jailed for three years by a Thai court today on a charge of insulting Thailand’s royal family in his 2005 novel.

A Thai court has found the wife of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra guilty of tax evasion and has sentenced her to three years in prison.

A former IRA chief charged over a violent kidnapping today denied implicating himself in the crime under intense police questioning and accused detectives of making up the claim.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has increased the prison sentence from one to five years imposed on a Dublin man for stabbing another man in what the court heard was an unprovoked attack.

A rioter in the "Love Ulster" parade who destroyed a car and threw a barrier at gardaí has being sentenced to nine months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A father accused of murdering his six-year-old son by leaping off a fourth-floor hotel balcony today told a Greek court he “did not plan” to kill his children.

Rapper Foxy Brown has been indicted on charges that she smacked a neighbour with a mobile phone, a Probation Department lawyer said today.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been told that a Lithuanian national who appeared to be "in a drunken stupor" told gardaí sent to Cork city suburban house: "I didn't rape anyone".

THE retrial of Co Mayo farmer Padraig Nally for the killing of John Ward has been set for December.

Naomi Campbell is facing a fresh accusation of less-than-model behaviour today, this time by a second maid who claims the British supermodel hit her.

A Manhattan court appearance by Boy George on drugs charges was adjourned today until next year.

Recent information links one of Saddam Hussein’s most notorious former generals to the massacres of Shiites in southern Iraq, a human rights group said today.

A CRIMINAL court today sentenced a male nurse to life imprisonment for the murder of 22 people between 1995 and 2001.

A garda hit a May 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstrator over the head with a baton after dragging him back by the hold of his sweatshirt, a jury in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, has been told.

Courtney Love has been scolded by a judge after she showed up more than five hours late for a Manhattan court appearance.

Courtney Love has pleaded innocent to charges of assault and reckless endangerment for allegedly hitting a fan in the head with a microphone stand in March.