Ukrainian president Victor Yushchenko Monday abolished the Kiev District Court by decree after it decided Saturday to block a previous presidential decree dissolving parliament and directing parliamentary elections in the wake of the collapse of the governing coalition. The Kiev court made the ruling against the elections in response to a lawsuit brought by Prime [...]
Sudan Justice Minister Abdel-Basit Sabdarat said Monday that a special prosecutor named to investigate and try war crimes suspects from the country's Darfur region has almost completed reports on some crimes in the region, though a time frame for trials has not yet been established. Sabdarat did specify that militia commander Ali Kushayb , wanted [...]
Judge Fausto Pocar , President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , called Monday for the arrest of Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic and Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic . Mladic and Hadzic are the two remaining major fugitives wanted for ICTY prosecution on war crimes charges stemming from their roles [...]
Steven Gieseler and Reed Hopper : "With this case, the U.S. Supreme Court has an opportunity to restore a semblance of balance to environmental law. For decades, environmental laws and regulations – in particular the Endangered Species Act – have been treated by the courts as super-statutes that subsume all other legal mandates and competing [...]
The UK House of Lords on Monday rejected a proposal supported by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to increase the amount of time authorities may detain terrorism suspects without charge. The upper house of Parliament voted 309-118 to amend an anti-terrorism bill by eliminating a highly contentious provision that would have increased the maximum period for [...]
Justice ministers of countries belonging to the League of Arab States said Monday that the International Criminal Court has 'no sound legal basis' to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . At a day-long summit in Cairo, the ministers suggested that ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's July application for a warrant to arrest [...]
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a complaint alleging that the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's incited hatred toward Muslims. The commission ruled Friday that a 2006 article by conservative writer Mark Steyn entitled "The future belongs to Islam" did not violate a provision of the British Columbia Human Rights Code that prohibits publication of [...]
The European Union Monday temporarily suspended its travel ban on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and several other Belarussian officials following the first high-level talks between Belarus and the EU in four years. A meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg directed the ban be lifted in an attempt to encourage democratic reform and the improvement [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday encouraged the Ethiopian parliament to reject the draft Charities and Societies Proclamation , which HRW officials concluded in a report would severely undermine human rights efforts in the country if passed. The draft law, which is a revision of the law proposed earlier this year , is designed to regulate [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has broadly interpreted rules protecting the content of databases from copying, regardless of how the information is extracted from its source. The court was considering a lawsuit filed by the University of Freiburg (UF) against Direct Media Publishing (DMP) for selling data CDs with a list of poems virtually [...]
