forensics

Bar Standards Board forbids Karim Khan from practising in England and Wales, following suspension by ICC Karim Khan, the international criminal court prosecutor, has been suspended from practising as a barrister in England and Wales by the UK’s Bar Standards Board (BSB). It comes less than two weeks after Khan was suspended as ICC chief prosecutor as part of a disciplinary process triggered by se…

Legal team of alleged gunman, 28, reverses position on ‘extreme emotional disturbance’ defense after one day In a stunning reversal, Luigi Mangione’s legal team said on Thursday they would no longer pursue a psychiatric defense in his upcoming state trial over the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Just one day earlier , Mangione’s lawyers told Judge Gregory Carro they would purs…

Gagan N.R., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore ABSTRACT There is no definition of abandonment contained in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 nor is there any provision regarding the consequences of a party abandoning arbitral proceedings. This lack of statutory provisions regarding abandonment has resulted in an entire body of judicial precedents that have increasingly recognize…

Boxer could face 20 years in jail if found guilty Mayweather’s attorney has not commented Floyd Mayweather is facing two felony charges over allegations he used a bad check to buy a $200,000 watch in 2024. The charges are for theft and intent to defraud. The theft charge carries a penalty of up to 20 years in jail if someone is found guilty, although sentences of that length for the offense are r…

Mangione has pleaded not guilty to federal and state charges tied to Brian Thompson’s 2024 killing Luigi Mangione is scheduled to appear in Manhattan state court on Tuesday in relation to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson . Mangione faces state and federal charges in Thompson’s 4 December 2024 killing on a New York City street. He has pleaded not guilty in both court cases. Conti…

Sixteen-year-old tells police Juven Pineda treated her like a ‘prisoner’ and thretened to harm family in Honduras An accused sex trafficker allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl to resolve a $13,500 debt that he claimed she and her family owed him, according to Louisiana police. Juven Pineda, 34, faces charges of second-degree rape and human trafficking after his capture in North Carolina and recent…

Clandestine operation run by Chinese national in Prato moved €80-100m a year through intermediaries Italian police have dismantled an underground bank used by drug traffickers through which several hundred million euros are believed to have moved over at least three years. The clandestine bank, whose logistical base was located in Prato, north-west of Florence, has been run since 2021 by a Chines…

Schoolteacher Jamie Varley described as ‘serial manipulator and a serial liar’ in Lancashire court A schoolteacher described as a “serial manipulator and a serial liar” has been found guilty of sexually abusing and murdering a baby he adopted. Jamie Varley, 37, of Staining, Lancashire, had denied the murder of 13-month-old Preston Davey and 25 other offences but was found guilty after an eight-we…

Roman Lavrynovych and Stanislav Carpiuc convicted at Old Bailey over attacks on property and car connected to PM Two men have been found guilty of conspiring to carry out arson attacks on property and a car connected to Keir Starmer. Ukrainian Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Romanian Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, were found guilty at the Old Bailey. Another Ukrainian man, Petro Pochynok, 35 , was cleared of …

Mayankraj Vijay Kumar Sharma ABSTRACT Growing use of current forensic techniques (such as Narco Analysis, Polygraphs, Brain Electrical Activity Profiling, Mandatory DNA Extracting, Biometric Surveillance and Seizure of Digital Evidence) has changed fundamentally the balance between individual civil liberties and investigation authorities in India. This paper will show that scientific value will n…

Dr. Rashmi Rekha Baug ABSTRACT Witness testimony remains central to criminal adjudication, yet witnesses in India have historically participated in criminal proceedings without a comprehensive institutional guarantee of safety. This has contributed to intimidation, coercion, and hostile testimony, weakening the truth-finding function of criminal courts and undermining public confidence in justice…

Vijilajohncy. M & Varshini. S ABSTRACT The Criminal Justice System in India is founded on the principles of equality before the law, fairness, and the rule of law. However, in practice, individuals belonging to privileged sections of society often exploit their political influence, economic power, social status, and access to legal resources to evade or delay justice. This phenomenon, known a…

Vashya P Kumar, BBA LL.B. (Hons.), Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bengaluru ABSTRACT The resolution of corporate disputes through arbitration has emerged as a critical area of study in the Indian legal landscape. India’s rapid economic integration into the global markets, combined with the steady rise in intra- corporate conflicts involving the shareholders, board of directors and…

Vance Boelter changes plea in murders of Melissa and Mark Hortman as prosecutors agree not to pursue death penalty The man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota house and her husband, as well as the nonfatal shootings of a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday after prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty. Van…

Clarence Curtis Jordan, who is intellectually disabled and had no legal representation for decades, was resentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Republican who chairs House panel says he based decision on testimony from Epstein’s longtime assistant Lesley Groff Representative James Comer, the Republican who chairs the House committee on oversight and government reform, announced that he would be asking Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein ’s former attorney, to appear before the panel as part of its investigation into the late sex offender. …

Fingerprints are still one of the most effective means of forensic detection but degradation during the recovery process leads to a loss of contrast between ridge and background, making them difficult to visualize. In this study spinel copper aluminate (CuAl2O4) nanoparticles were synthesized by a facile and cost effective sol-gel method and evaluated for latent fingerprints (LFPs) development on…

Nitish Kumar Mishra, C.M.P. Degree College Prayagraj Uttar Pradesh ABSTRACT The enactment of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), replacing the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC), marks a transformative shift in India's criminal justice architecture. Among the provisions undergoing legislative revision, the right of private defence occupies a uniquely contested space, straddling the tension between…

Arpita Mohapatra & Aman Sai, SOA National Institute of Law ABSTRACT This paper explores the shift in Indian criminal jurisprudence from the Indian Penal Code to Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, specifically examining the evolution of “consent” and “sexual autonomy”. While the Indian Penal Code was deeply rooted in British authority and retributive punishment, the BNS focuses on citizen centric and pr…

Arshiya Dhatwalia, LLB (Hons), O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana ABSTRACT The digitalisation of markets has prompted competition law to reckon with a phenomenon that traditional antitrust frameworks were not equipped to address, that is, network effects and the tipping of platform markets. This paper undertakes a preliminary analysis of network effects, drawing on available theories…