Everybody seems obsessed about calling her leftist CBS 42 GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador is likely to choose its next president in a runoff election later this year as early results of a first-round vote Sunday showed a tight difference between conservative President Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González. Figures released by Ecuador’s National…

The Guardian reports The chief executive of the miscarriage of justice watchdog spent thousands of pounds of public money on luxury French hotels while enrolling on courses at an elite business school at which her organisation’s then chair held positions. Karen Kneller, the chief executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, is known to have regularly…

  Law & Crime A group of physicians won a victory against the Trump administration on Tuesday when a judge ordered administrative agencies to restore certain webpages that were removed from public health websites. On Feb. 4, Doctors for America filed an 18-page lawsuit over the removal of “a broad range of health-related data and other information used every…

This one gets weirder by the day A Florida attorney found himself on the other side of the justice system when he was charged with allegedly stalking another attorney. Carlos Santi, 43, stood handcuffed before Judge Mindy Glazer in a Miami courtroom on Feb. 7 to respond to charges of aggravated stalking. After posting $2,500 bond, Santi was ordered…

Just sometimes there’s a sort of Hollywood ending.. Free Movement report The High Court has dismissed an appeal by the Home Secretary against an award of damages to a refugee in the amount of £98,757.04 in respect of her unlawful detention and breach of article 8 relating to the delay in granting her status. The…

I suggest she never takes the bus in Sydney! Straits Times After examining cases in the Australian, English and Scottish courts, the court said it is generally not necessary for a bus driver to wait for all passengers to be seated before moving off. A woman who fell while climbing the stairs of a double-decker…

IN THE NEWS  President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order titled “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation,” requiring federal agencies to identify at least ten existing regulations to repeal whenever they seek to issue a new one. The order aims to reduce “unnecessary, burdensome, and costly federal regulations” and requires that the cost of all new regulations be “significantly less than zero”…