"They played tapes and called me out -- Booyah, boohyah!" Cramer sang. "Was made the fool without a doubt. Not a booyah day!" A skit lampooning county officials, Mayor Frank Jackson and Plain Dealer ...

The Assize Courts was the first civic building to be constructed in Manchester after the town hall on King Street by Francis Goodwin in 1819. As part of the court system changes, the assize court ...

The Ancaster Bloody Assize reveals a great deal about our early history in 1812-14. It must be remembered at that time the boundaries between the United States and Upper Canada were very fluid. Many ...

In June of 1814, the harsh sentence against 15 men convicted of high treason was read aloud to a hushed courtroom at the Court of Assize in Ancaster, Upper Canada: “You are to be drawn on hurdles to ...

We like to think that we were removed from barbarian practices of the middle ages, perhaps not quite so removed. An incident in Canada during the War of 1812 saw men’s heads lopped off and paraded on ...

A pilot project to reduce the oversupply of chambers applications has been initiated by the Vancouver Law Courts after several civil matters were bumped from the chambers because of too many ...

When Acting Justice Ralph M. Smith opened district court in Somerville, Mass, one morning last week, beaming Clerk Louis Connolly presented him with an empty docket. There had not been a single arrest ...