Canadian officials are considering whether to deport an American sex offender who reached a plea agreement with a US judge allowing him to serve probation in Canada . Malcolm Watson, a former teacher at a...
A UN human rights investigator expressed concern Friday that the US Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) would lead to lower worldwide standards regarding interrogation techniques and trial procedures for noncitizen detainees. Martin Scheinin [academic...
A new domestic violence law took effect in India Friday, with some women's rights advocates welcoming it and others warning that the landmark legislation would not be adequately enforced. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended the new Military Commissions Act of 2006 Monday before an audience of senior military lawyers, insisting it gives enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...
A lawyer for John W. Hinckley, Jr. argued Monday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia that the man who shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in 1981 should...
A lawyer for a Muslim teaching assistant suspended by a British school for refusing to remove her full-face veil (niqab; Wikipedia backgrounder) during class said Friday she planned to appeal a local tribunal's decision to the...
The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is amending a civil unions law that was overturned by the federal government earlier this year , ACT Attorney General Simon Corbell said Friday....
The US Justice Department has issued a notice informing the US District Court for the District of Columbia that it no longer has jurisdiction over 196 habeas corpus cases brought by detainees at...
Dr. Lester Crawford , a veterinarian who served briefly as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year, will plead guilty to failure to disclose his financial interest in companies regulated by the...
US Army prosecutors argued in a hearing Monday that an officer overseeing interrogations at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison should face a court-martial for his willful blindness toward prisoner abuse, while a defense attorney countered that most...
