Law & Society

Italian-based designer Domenico Vacca’s lavish lifestyle is funded by other people, client Alex Blavatnik's lawsuit claims. Blavatnik sued Vacca's company last year and in February 2016, Vacca's lawyer requested an adjournment of an upcoming hearing since the 53-year-old fashion designer is having surgery overseas.

Oscar Pistorius will face a fresh sentencing hearing on Jun 13-17 2016 at the Pretoria Supreme Court. The former South African Paralympian is convicted of culpable homicide murder of Reeva Steenkamp, his girlfriend.

The Virginia Supreme Court has now officially legalized the divorce law to unmarried same-sex couples. The long-held Virginia law ruled out that the man in a sae-sex relationship must continue to pay spousal support because the right for same-sex couples to marry had little to do with the issue of spousal support.