Mission to the United States and Canada for Italian Justice Minister Carlo Nordio. On Monday, October 30, the Guardasigilli will meet in Washington at the Department of Justice with his U.S. counterpart, Attorney General, Merrick Garland. In Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 1 and Thursday, Nov. 2, Minister Nordio is scheduled to hold working meetings with...

Prisoners in Italy will be able to work in museums under an agreement signed by the country's culture and justice ministries, reports news agency ANSA. The new system will see around 100 prisoners carry out public utility works in 52 cultural institutions including the Royal Palace of Caserta, the Pinacoteca di Bologna and the Palazzo Ducale in Man...

Il ministro dell’Interno, Luciana Lamorgese, di concerto con il ministro per l’Innovazione tecnologica e la Transizione digitale, Vittorio Colao, ha adottato venerdì scorso il decreto che individua le modalità attuative per l'utilizzo del Fondo per la sperimentazione del voto e dello scrutinio elettronico per le elezioni politiche ed europee e per...

Italy's justice minister has announced an investigation into comments to the Italian media made by the judge who read the guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.   Justice Minister Annamaria Cancellieri said in a statement Monday she has asked the inspector general to make a preliminary assess...

by Stephanie Kirchgaessner   It has only been five decades since women were first allowed to become judges inItaly but in what is being hailed as a small revolution, female judges now outnumber their male counterparts.   According to a report released this week by the top prosecutor in Italy's supreme court, women now comprise 50.7% o...