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Detained pro-democracy activist Arnon Nampa has contracted the Covid-19 virus while in prison, the Department of Corrections said on Thursday.

In swing states around the country, Republicans are already gearing up legal challenges to the election results. Speaking on Sunday in one tightly contested battleground, President Donald Trump made it clear that he is also planning to quickly push the presidential contest into the courts.

Madrid - Julian Assange's lawyers have filed a court complaint in Spain against a group of Spaniards they allege extorted the WikiLeaks founder and Ecuador's foreign ministry, a source in his defence team said Saturday.

Police say a road accident which killed two lawyers and badly hurt another in Surin province’s Sangkha district on Wednesday morning might have been a hit and run.

THE LAWYERS Network for Children and Youth (LNCY) has joined others in a call for media to better protect young victims in their news coverage.

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has agreed to interrogate another eight defence witnesses in the money-laundering case against Panthongtae Shinwatra, son of fugitive ex-premier Thaksin.

The Bangkok Remand Prison on Saturday morning rejected visit requests by lawyers and families of former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and former deputy commerce minister Phumi Saraphol.

Lawmakers across Southeast Asia have expressed concern over the sentencing of Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, to two years in prison for blasphemy on Tuesday.

THE THAI Lawyers for Human Rights Centre (TLHRC) has called on the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to revoke the Article 44 order against the Pathum Thani-based Dhammakaya Temple and to use normal judicial procedures instead.

‘Clear civil law violations’ implicate family and employer of driver, insurance carrier.

Law works best when it reflects shared intuitions and morals. Otherwise, many would find ways and reasons to bend or break it. This is partly why legal systems across continents and centuries have strikingly similar rules and principles. People follow them because they channel natural tendencies in ways that benefit their communities. Law structures life, and so life follows law.

LEGAL EXPERTS have disagreed with charter drafters over the level of community-rights protections in the draft constitution.