The High Court released this morning a magistrate arrested from the southern island of Thinadhoo in Gaaf Dhaal atoll Saturday night on a charge of drug...
Businesses that do not contest tax bills issued by the tax authority within a 30-day appeal period cannot challenge the claim at the courts at a...
The high court has found a man guilty for the 2012 murder of Ali ‘Tholhi Pele’ Shifan, after overturning a criminal court acquittal. Two others charged...
The high court overturned today a murder conviction against Fariyash Ahmed, who was serving a life sentence over a killing in 2006. The 28-year-old had escaped...
The high court has upheld today the death sentence of a young woman convicted of killing a prominent lawyer, despite her lawyer insisting the death penalty...
The police are searching for three young men in order to enforce monitoring and control (MoniCon) orders granted by the High Court to electronically tag and...
The High Court has granted the police monitoring and control or 'MoniCon' orders to electronically tag, conduct surveillance, and intercept communications of "10 known gang members,"...
Two former criminal court judges who presided over the first hearing of Sheikh Imran Abdulla's trial are among a three-judge High Court panel hearing the Adhaalath...
The Maldives High Court has begun hearing a case that will decide whether the ruling Progressive Party of the Maldives was right to remove former Auditor...
The High Court issued today a stay order halting the Election Commission’s de-registration of tens of thousands of members from opposition parties.
The Local Government Authority is seeking a High Court order to dissolve a five-member elected council in the north on a charge of doctoring official documents.
The Supreme Court has granted itself the final word on rulings that strike down laws and regulations by announcing that such verdicts would be up for...
The High Court ruled that the dismissal of former Chief Station Inspector Mohamed Habeeb in February 2014 was unfair as he was not convicted of a...
Judge Abdulla Didi who presided over former President Mohamed Nasheed’s flawed terrorism trial was appointed as the chief judge of the appellate High Court on Thursday.
During Nazim’s trial in March, the criminal court had refused to call all but two of the 37 defence witnesses, claiming some were not relevant while...
The high court has sentenced a man to death based on a murder confession he had retracted in court, prompting concern that the verdict heralds a...
In a blow to groups urging the Maldives to reinstate a moratorium on the death penalty, the high court has ruled that the president cannot commute...
