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 , speaking at a news conference following an address to the Canadian Bar Association , said that the high [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Gerald Carr, Michigan State Univeristy College of Law Class of 2013, examines the challenges that the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians face over building a casino on land that is not part of their reservation… The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe currently operates five casinos in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP). The [...]
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 information. Karadzic is currently representing himself at trial. In his motion, he said that the prosecution failed to disclose crucial information until after the start [...]
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 Morsi the power to establish public policy and sign international treaties . The declaration also allows Morsi to create a new legislature to [...]
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 of the pregnancy, which involves an active process within a woman’s body,” rather than the moment of fertilization. In this case, [...]
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 Romanian Roma who had been previously evicted from camps were flown from France to Romania. French officials claim the dismantling [...]
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 gay cinema in July, which saw all the suspects subjected to anal examinations by forensics doctors to determine if they were [...]
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 posts and 2,800 posts in the US Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Officer Corps from [...]
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 . This is the latest in the transitional period that began with the National Transitional Council of Libya (NTC) handing [...]
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 Arthenia Joyner . The new regulation, which applies to only 62 of 67 counties, creates conflicting voting rules depending on the county. HB [...]
