Most of Asia's common law jurisdictions (countries such as Singapore, Pakistan and Malaysia) have also abolished jury trials, ...

In December, a French court sentenced Pelicot's former husband Dominique to 20 years in prison, a verdict that also made headlines in Austria. So did the sentences handed down to 50 co-defendants, all ...

A staged reading of selected fragments of the trial that made Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, who survived nearly a decade of rapes by dozens of men, a worldwide feminist icon will premiere in Vienna ...

A staged reading of selected fragments of the trial that made Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, who survived nearly a decade of rapes by dozens of men, a worldwide feminist icon will ...

Here is how a trial could work without a jury. An option could be to give Magistrates Courts the powers to hand custodial sentences of more than one year, as is the current limit.

A French senator accused of having drugged a parliamentary deputy with the intention of sexually assaulting her has been sent for trial, AFP learnt on Friday from a source close to the case.

The stripped-back performance, based on the rape trial that shocked France and the world, ran all night at a church in Vienna.

In France, criminals generally serve concurrent sentences. That’s frustrating the many, many victims of convicted rapist Joël Le Scouarnec.

France is missing out on the investor optimism that has defined Europe's markets this year, hamstrung by its strained public ...