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A woman was entitled to make deductions from her roommate's deposit for sweets he ate without her permission, a tribunal has ruled. The civil tribunal in British Columbia, Canada found the woman was entitled to make the deduction of $6.50 CAD (around €4 or £3.50).

Kim Kardashian has blamed her "frenemy" ChatGPT for failing her law exams. In a video for Vanity Fair, the 45-year-old reality TV star said she relies on the AI tool for "legal advice".

India's top judge has warned against nationwide restrictions on pornography on the basis they could lead to a violent youth insurrection. Chief Justice BR Gavai made the remarks after a petition was brought to the Supreme Court of India seeking greater restrictions on pornography.

The trial of three alleged fake lawyers was abruptly halted after it emerged their lawyer was himself not qualified to practise. Peter Ngeri Ouma admitted not holding a valid practising certificate while appearing in a Kenyan court representing three men accused of fraudulently masquerading as lawye

An American lawyer furloughed due to the ongoing US government shutdown has started a side business selling hot dogs. Isaac Stein has launched his self-deprecating "Shysters Dogs" while furloughed from his full-time job at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), NPR reports.

A police officer admitted to joining a remote court hearing with no trousers on after being questioned by an incredulous judge. Video footage from a district court in the US state of Michigan shows the police officer joining the Zoom hearing in his uniform, sans trousers.

Pedestrians are to be fined for speeding if they walk or run faster than six kilometres per hour in Slovakia. The new speed limit was agreed in the Slovak parliament yesterday through an amendment to new road traffic legislation, according to Swiss website Bluewin.

The head of a committee dealing with delays in drunk driving prosecutions has been charged with drunk driving — and has seen her own case delayed. Linsey LaMontagne is director of the Clark County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) in southern Nevada, covering an area including Las V

A man detained after trailing US troops with a speaker playing Darth Vader's iconic theme tune has filed a lawsuit over his treatment. Washington DC man Sam O'Hara staged the creative process after President Trump controversially deployed the National Guard to the city.

A teenage boy whose sex was mistakenly recorded on his birth certificate as female has been told he can only join girls' sports teams at his US school. The Laker family in Mesa, Arizona told ABC15 that their 14-year-old son was misidentified as female on his birth certificate as a result of a "cleri

Elon Musk's SpaceX is to pay an undisclosed sum to the makers of party game Cards Against Humanity after trespassing on land which was purchased to frustrate the construction of Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico. The company behind Cards Against Humanity — which bills itself as "a party g

A man who allegedly pretended to be a lawyer to visit his girlfriend in jail was caught after guards spotted them hugging and kissing. Aaron Oldham gained access to Oklahoma County Detention Center via the attorney's visitation area after claiming to represent Christine Hillier, who was actually his

A city in Catalonia has outright banned the adoption of black cats in the run-up to Halloween over fears they could be used in satanic rituals. The move was announced last week by the city council of Terrassa, a city of nearly 230,000 people in the vicinity of Barcelona.

Police have said they received an "overwhelming" response to an appeal for members of the public to smoke cannabis to help train officers. Two police forces in Maryland — where cannabis is legal for medical and recreational use — are training officers to recognise cannabis impairment.

An AI-generated candidate has been proposed for mayor of Tirana in the Albanian capital's upcoming election. The launch of TirANA (Tirana Algorithmic Neural Assistant) follows the Albanian government's appointment in September of an AI chatbot as a government minister.