The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada warned Saturday that the public would lose faith in the Canadian legal system unless access to the courts is made available for everyone. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin [official...
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Canada chief justice: public access to courts must be increased
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Karadzic asks ICTY for new war crimes trial
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Egypt president grants self total executive and legislative powers
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HRW: Lebanon must cease intrusive physical examinations used to prosecute gay men
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Obama signs law allowing some presidential appointees without Senate confirmation
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Monday asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for a new trial, accusing prosecutors of delaying the disclosure of crucial...
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi issued a declaration on Sunday that gives the president complete legislative and executive power, abolishing a June declaration that reserved power for the military . The declaration grants...
A judge for Australia's Queensland District Court has, for the first time in Australian jurisprudence, defined the term "conception" as the act of getting pregnant. Judge Leanne Clare defined "conception" Wednesday as "the commencement...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that French authorities raided two camps inhabited by Romanian Roma early Thursday morning and evicted all of the more than 200 residents, leaving them without homes. The same day, 240...
Lebanon should stop police from using anal examinations to determine suspects' sexual behavior, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Friday. The announcement came on the heels of a recent arrest of 36 men at a...
US President Barack Obama signed into law the Presidential Efficiency and Streamlining Act Friday, which permits some senior government positions to be filled by the president without requiring Senate confirmation. The bill exempts 170 minor executive...
Libya's newly empowered General National Congress elected Mohamed al-Megaryef as interim president on Friday. Al-Megaryef, a long time opponent of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , was elected by a vote of 113 to 85...
Florida Administrative Judge Thomas Crapps on Friday heard a challenge to a voting rights law filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and Senator...
The Supreme Court of Montana on Friday ruled that its state's November ballots may include Initiative 166 , a nonbinding policy statement that would direct the state's congress to support an amendment to the...
