The Court of Appeals for England and Wales ruled Wednesday that provisions of the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004 are incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights , and upheld a 2005 lower court...
The UK Court of Appeals Wednesday upheld a 2006 lower court ruling that a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as the Chagossians must be allowed to return to the group...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko asked a lower court in Kiev Tuesday to block the Constitutional Court of Ukraine from ruling on his April 2 decree dissolving parliament ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held hearings Tuesday on California's request for a waiver of preemption for its greenhouse gas emission standards for new cars. The standards would require car manufacturers to cut emissions...
Lawyers for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Tuesday threatened to bring a lawsuit against a committee investigating Thaksin's alleged corruption if it releases details of a report into a controversial land purchase [Wikipedia...
Members of the committee responsible for developing reforms to Iraq's constitution said Tuesday that, after six months of negotiations, they have been unable to reach any sort of agreement. The panel made up of Shiites, Sunnis,...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Monday called for the government of Myanmar to unconditionally release pro-democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC...
The last of fourteen defendants in the 2004 Madrid train bombings trial who announced participation in a hunger strike ended their efforts Monday, citing a desire not to put additional stress on the court....
A former Bosnian Serb official who testified against against Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died in prison in Sweden Saturday. Officials with the Swedish Prison and Probation Service told Reuters that 52 year old...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in three cases which will be heard next term. In Klein & Co. v. Board of Trade (06-1265) the court...
