US Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Monday announced that he had named a prosecutor to determine whether criminal charges are warranted in connection with the removal of nine US attorneys, as recommended in a new report by investigators at the US Justice Department (DOJ) . Mukasey said he had named Acting US Attorney Nora R. [...]
Egypt's Abbaseyya Appeals Court on Sunday upheld the conviction of the former editor of weekly newspaper al-Dustour for spreading "rumors" about the health of Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak in an August 2007 newspaper report. Ibrahim Eissa originally faced a maximum sentence of three years in jail when his trial began in Cairo in October 2007, [...]
Judges for the criminal division of the Supreme Court of Chile Friday reduced the sentences of two men convicted of the 1973 deaths of 15 Chilean farmers . A lower court had sentenced former Army Col. Hugo Guerra Jorquera to 18 years in prison and civilian businessman Luis García to five years and one day [...]
The 2500-member People's Council of Turkmenistan Friday adopted a new constitution for Turkmenistan envisioning a new multi-party political process and providing for limits on presidential power two years after the death of longtime autocrat Saparmurat Niyazov . Turkmen leaders are hopeful that the changes in the country's charter would encourage investment in the Central Asian [...]
More than 30 US pastors planned to preach about the "moral qualifications" of political candidates Sunday, challenging federal tax laws that prohibit tax-exempt entities from engaging in political campaigns. The conservative Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) recruited the pastors as part of its Pulpit Initiative , which the group says is "designed to protect the First [...]
British music royalty collection society MCPS-PRS Alliance on Friday challenged a European Commission (EC) antitrust decision limiting the control such organizations have over copyright use agreements. In July, the EC ruled the current exclusivity deals the single-country societies had were effectively domestic monopolies in violation of Article 81 of the European Commission Treaty and Article [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana ruled Friday that the US Army will be able to complete its shipment of chemical waste from a location in western Indiana to Port Arthur, Texas, where the material will be incinerated. The Sierra Club and other citizen groups had filed the [...]
The head of India's Human Resources Development Ministry , Arjun Singh , said Friday that he advocates giving legal aid to two university students from the Jamia Millia Islamia who are suspects in the New Delhi serial bombings investigation. Singh's statement was in support of the university's Vice Chancellor, Professor Mushirul Hasan , who had [...]
Business research firm TM Group released a report on Friday saying that the majority of UK lawyers are using client identification methods which do not comply with the county's anti-money-laundering regulations. According to the report, 65% of those polled reported using only visual checks of identification, a method not endorsed by the country's 2007 Money [...]
Baseer Naweed : "The lawyer's movement for the restoration of judges and the independence of the judiciary has continued in spite the Pakistani government's illegal and unconstitutional handling of the issue of deposed judges. The government first made false promises for the restoration of judiciary as part of their election campaign of November 2, 2007. [...]
