The Anglo-Saxons used trial by ordeal to determine proof through the Judgement of God, the Judicium Dei. The two main types of ordeal are explored, trial by hot iron and trial by water.

An Abakaliki Chief Magistrate Court presided over by Chief Magistrate Mrs Nnenna Ogodo has remanded four suspects at the ...

Though discredited now, trial by ordeal was considered highly effective in this superstitious era as most guilty criminals preferred to confess and so avoid trial. The practice, overseen by the ...

Josie Russell is to be spared the ordeal of coming face to face with the ... Instead the jury in a second trial, which opened yesterday in Nottingham, will be shown a video of Josie using plastic ...

The group's ordeal is being re-enacted on Saturday and Sunday in Huntingdon's Georgian courtroom, on the site of the building where the 17th Century trial took place. "For many people, the Civil ...