The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Thursday ruled that the impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake were unlawful. The court held that the parliamentary committee does not have the authority to investigate or...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday denied a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for disclosure of tactics used by the US to...
Threats and attacks against judges and lawyers who fight for the independence of the judiciary in Sri Lanka have increased in past few months, according to UN independent expert Gabriela Knaul . The focus of her...
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts on Monday released his 2012 year-end report , in which he urged the executive and legislative branches to address the needs of the federal judiciary in terms of...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday called on India's government to "strengthen critical services for rape victims," expressing sympathy for the family of the 23-year-old medical student who died from injuries sustained in a gang-rape...
The Catholic Church, which remains an influential institution in the Philippines where 80 percent of the population is Catholic, on Saturday announced that it will challenge newly approved birth control legislation before the Supreme Court. The...
Egypt's chief prosecutor on Thursday ordered an investigation into allegations that opposition leaders were inciting supporters to overthrow the country's president Mohammed Morsi , which amounts to treason. The investigations are against Mohammed El-Baradei, a...
Cambodia is misusing its judicial system in order to suppress dissent and thereby undermine justice, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday amid two court rulings against three individuals. In the first case, the...
Attorneys for the federal government on Monday filed a motion with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma to dismiss a complaint challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text;...
Nokia announced Wednesday that it filed litigation against Research In Motion (RIM) , the Canadian parent company of BlackBerry, in courts in the US, UK and Canada to block sales of BlackBerry smartphones. The move came after a...
