A German court said Wednesday it had dropped a case against a former Nazi concentration camp guard, finding the seriously ill 95-year-old unfit for trial.
On Tuesday the European Court of Justice ruled on a case concerning holiday leave in Germany. The case involved the rights that an employee, as well as the deceased spouse of an employee, has to holiday leave.
On Tuesday, a mother and stepfather who prostituted their young son on the internet were sentenced to over 12 years in prison by a court in Freiburg in the culmination of a sprawling, horrifying case.
Facebook must grant the parents of a dead girl access as heirs to their daughter's user account, which had been blocked for five and a half years, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled on Thursday.
Erica Duggan is still seeking justice for what she believes was her son’s wrongful death at the hands of right-wing group LaRouche in 2003. After a German court’s decision to close the case this month, Duggan held a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday to say that she will fight on.
The head of Germany's second largest police union has harshly attacked the country's justice system, after a court in Wuppertal ruled that so-called "sharia police" are legal.
The justice system in Germany faces serious difficulties building cases against those suspected of having fought for Isis in Iraq and Syria, the country's top prosecutor said on Monday.
A magistrate in Bavaria resigned on Tuesday after police discovered that he was a former singer in a neo-Nazi band and had long standing links to the far-right scene.
A magistrate in Upper Franconia is proving an embarrassment for the Bavarian justice system after it emerged he sang in several far-right bands while a student.
An 89-year-old American and alleged Nazi war criminal died just hours before a US court approved his extradition to Germany, his lawyer said late on Wednesday.
A man who was forcibly detained for past seven years in psychiatric institutions after saying his wife and her colleagues were involved in banking fraud is being released on Tuesday and all charges against him are to be dropped.
Some western German prisons put angry offenders in pink cells to try to calm them down, despite there being little hard evidence that it works. Conservative politicians asked on Monday whether the “Barbie rooms” should be scrapped.
Fare-dodgers, illegal parkers, shoplifters - petty criminals are regularly choosing to go to prison for a few days instead of paying small fines. Now one regional authority is planning more creative punishments to save state money.
A man who has been locked up in mental institutions for six years after saying his wife and her colleagues were involved in a fraud, was correct. Now the Bavarian justice minister is under pressure to review the case.
Offenders held in preventative custody should be given more comfortable conditions and no longer be accommodated alongside ordinary prisoners, the lower house of the German parliament has decided.
The justice minister in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate has sparked outrage after proposing that Germany could permit Sharia courts, which operate according to Islamic law, to preside over some civil cases in the country.
Five prisoners in Lower Saxony deemed too dangerous to release even though they have served their sentences are on a hunger strike for better conditions including internet access, pay TV and conjugal visits.
Two senior Rwandan Hutu rebel leaders go on trial Wednesday in Germany, accused of masterminding atrocities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
State prosecutors in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have been given karate lessons at taxpayers’ expense, prompting outrage from the state’s opposition.
The debate over tougher security laws intensified on Friday, with Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger warning against “political exploitation” of heightened terrorism fears.
Moves by the government to maintain the controversial practice of preventative detention for dangerous criminals are being blocked by members of its own coalition, the Free Democrats, setting the stage for another internal government brawl.
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has dismissed a plan by state counterparts to introduce driving bans for convicted criminals, media reported Wednesday.
