Content by tag : Justice
The Belgian state has been found guilty by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) of failures to meet the right to be tried within a reasonable time in the judicial district of Brussels.
Belgium’s justice minister Vincent Van Quickenborne is having to respond to questions concerning his 50th birthday party held this summer after VRT discovered footage of his guests urinating on a
The Belgian justice system has begun efforts to digitise massive amounts of paper documents in its archives with the goal of allowing such digital documents to be legally admissible in the future.
In what has been called “the trial of the century”, the long-awaited verdict from the 22 March 2016 Brussels terror attack trials was announced - delivered by a public jury rather than legal exper
A major operation with the Belgian justice system aims to make it more efficient and productive overall.
The need to tighten up operations stems from a lack of resources, RTBF reports.
Members of the N-VA party are calling for legislation that would require those who stand trial for breaking a law in a Dutch-speaking neighbourhood to do so in the Dutch language.
A student society is under scrutiny after Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) filed a complaint of large-scale transgressive behaviour with the public prosecutor’s office.
Security around Belgium's justice minister, Vincent Van Quickenborne, and his family has been tightened after an apparent kidnapping attempt was foiled.
Some 55 Belgian magistrates and members of the judicial system spent a weekend locked up in the new Haren "mega-prison" as part of an exercise intended to let them experience life in prison first-
