Stable, wealthier countries like Denmark, Sweden, and New Zealand have the least perceived corruption and poorer, less stable countries like Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar and Somalia have the most, according to government accountability advocacy group Transparency International (TI) in a report published Tuesday. TI's 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) , was a survey-based study of perceived [...]

A legal adviser to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued an opinion Tuesday that UK regulations permitting mandatory retirement policies do not violate an EU anti-discrimination law. ECJ Advocate General Jan Marzak concluded that although the UK's Employment Equality (Age) Regulations fall within the scope of the European Directive on Equal Treatment , age-based [...]

US Senate Democrats on Monday questioned the constitutionality of the Bush administration's proposal to stabilize financial markets and introduced their own plan allowing courts to review purchases of troubled assets by the Treasury Department . The administration's proposed legislation, submitted to Congress on Saturday, would authorize the Treasury to acquire as much as $700 billion [...]

Chris W. Cox : "While a recent District proposal – passed only under the threat of congressional action – does make a few positive changes to its gun laws, it is still important for Congress to take strong action to restore the Second Amendment rights of District residents. The D.C. Council's second "emergency" bill makes [...]

The Canadian Federal Court granted a last-minute stay of removal Monday for US Army deserter Jeremy Hinzman . Hinzman fled to Canada from the US in January 2004 after leaving his unit, rather than deploy to Iraq. Hinzman had applied for asylum in Canada and accused the US of war crimes in Iraq . Federal [...]

The chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a government motion Friday to extend from August 30 to September 30 its deadline to file the first fifty factual returns in the habeas corpus appeals of more than two hundred Guantanamo detainees. Judge Thomas F. Hogan nonetheless said he granted [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the US Department of Defense must release certain photographs of alleged detainee abuse committed by US soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other civil rights groups sought the release of [...]

The US-led Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF) announced Monday that it had released an Afghan freelance journalist detained since last year as an enemy combatant . A military spokesman said Jawed Ahmad, who had been working as a videographer for Canadian television network CTV, was freed Sunday because he was no longer considered a threat. [...]

Lawyers in Nepal began a boycott of court proceedings Sunday to protest the suspension of the national bar association's leader by the Nepalese Supreme Court . The court last week suspended Bishwa Kanta Mainali, president of the Nepal Bar Association , for six months after he suggested that many Nepalese judges accept bribes. A bar [...]

ACLU v. Department of Defense, US Court of Appeals For the Second Circuit, September 22, 2008 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.