Fiona Maye, juge aux affaires familiales à la Haute Cour de justice d’Angleterre et du pays de Galles, doit rendre une décision déchirante dans une cause concernant Adam Henry, un adolescent de 17 ans atteint de leucémie. Celui-ci, tout comme ses parents Témoins de Jéhovah, refuse une transfusion sanguine nécessaire à sa survie. Dans un geste surprenant, la magistrate va rencontrer le jeune patient à l’hôpital avant de prononcer un jugement qui aura des conséquences importantes pour plusieurs personnes.
Salamanque, Espagne, 1936. Au début de la rébellion militaire qui a déclenché la guerre civile espagnole (1936-39), l'écrivain Miguel de Unamuno soutient le soulèvement dans l'espoir que le chaos politique dominant prendra fin. Mais quand la confrontation devient sanglante, Unamuno doit remettre en question sa position initiale.
In pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends a lifetime struggling to prove his worth to his relentlessly spiteful father.
A sudden death tied to a list from the past leads to unimaginable evil. Fresh out of law school and full of hope for the future, Renny Jacobson is stunned by his father's sudden death--and then by the terms of the will: the elder Jacobson has left the bulk of his estate to charity.
When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man.
Sapthagiri, a small time lawyer from Chittoor dreams of making it big. He decides to get a high profile case reopened, taking on the finest lawyer in the country, in the process. Sapthagiri's life and justice will never be the same again.
United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers are convicted and imprisoned for indecency and sodomy.
Fresh off a winning case that brought her unwanted internet fame, a rising ADA learns of the district's most respected judge allegedly assaulting her best friend. She starts a case but is surprised to be met with resistance by the district attorney who mentored her, her best friend who questions the system and her motives, and the judge himself who knows her own dark secret.
When, in a very strict Catholic school, a teacher enters a bathroom and surprises two students engaged in forbidden sexual practices, some of their classmates do not know whether to remain silent or rat out their own friends when questioned by school authorities.
October 2003, Alma and Lila Levy are excluded from the Lycée Henri Wallon in Aubervilliers solely because they were wearing a headscarf. What follows is a deafening political and media debate, justifying in most cases the exclusion of girls wearing head-scarves to school. February 2004, a law was eventually passed by the National Assembly. "A thinly veiled racism" is about this controversy since the affair of Creil in 1989 (where two schoolgirls were excluded for the same reasons) and attempts to "reveal" that maybe what hides behind is the desire to exclude these girls. This film gives them a voice as well as others - teachers, community activists, feminists, researchers - gathered around the group "A School for You-All" fighting for the repeal of this law they consider sexist and racist ... This movie was censured in Septembre 2004 in France.
Barcelona, Spain, June 1977. A chronicle of a demonstration held to demand the repeal of a 1970 Francoist law criminalizing homeless, prostitutes and homosexuals.
La venue de l'entreprise minière Osisko crée beaucoup d'émoi à Malartic, petite communauté de 3600 âmes en Abitibi. L'implacable Loi sur les mines priorise le droit d'exploiter les ressources souterraines plutôt que le droit à la propriété. De nombreuses familles et personnes âgées doivent donc faire une croix sur certains éléments patrimoniaux ainsi que sur une partie de leur mode de vie. L’or des autres raconte les turbulences que l'implantation d'une mine d'or à ciel ouvert, la plus grosse au Canada, provoque en plein coeur d'une ville.