Ali Khan : "In the Constitutional Petition No. 21 of 2007 (Chief Justice Chaudhry v. The President of Pakistan), a unanimous Supreme Court of 13 Justices has declared that the President's Order to suspend the Chief Justice is "ultra vires of the Constitution . . . and passed without lawful authority." Three Justices have held [...]
Constitution petitions ruling, Supreme Court of Pakistan, July 20, 2007 . Read the full text of the court's order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Thursday approved the Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act , which, if enacted, will give the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broader authority to sanction television and radio broadcasters for a single word or image that the FCC considers indecent. The proposed legislation seeks to undo [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the much-discussed ideological divide between Shi'is and Sunnis in Iraq is actually more subtle and complex than is usually depicted… There has been a great deal of focus in the news recently on what the difference is between a [...]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled 10-3 Friday to reinstate suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to the top court, holding that President Pervez Musharraf's March 9 suspension order was illegal. The court dismissed all charges of misconduct against Chaudhry. Many Pakistani lawyers and opposition leaders have alleged that Chaudhry's suspension was an indirect bid by [...]
US District Judge Amy St. Eve ruled in Chicago Thursday that Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black will not have to await his November 30 sentencing in jail. St. Eve nonetheless put restrictions on Black's mobility, holding that in the interim he will only be allowed to travel to Chicago or to West [...]
US District Judge John Bates Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against members of the Bush administration brought by Valerie Plame , the former CIA operative whose disclosed identity precipitated the 2003 CIA leak scandal , ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction over her tort claim. Bates said that relief for Plame's claim was only available administratively [...]
UK parliamentarians on the Constitutional Affairs Committee called Thursday for reforms to the role of the Attorney General for England and Wales, saying conflicts between political and legal aspects of the position make it "not sustainable" . The MPs cited the conflicts as the reason for the controversial dropping of a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) [...]
Russia expelled four British diplomats and suspended counter-terrorism cooperation with the UK Thursday in response to Monday's expulsion of four Russian diplomats from the UK in protest over Russia's refusal to extradite Russian citizen Andrei Lugovoy for the poisoning-murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London last year. The UK expressed disappointment in the [...]
The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Thursday sentenced three former leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council to at least 45 years of imprisonment each . Brima Bazzy Kamara was sentenced to serve 45 years, while Alex Tamba Brima and Santigie Borbor Kanu were each sentenced to 50 years after being convicted of [...]
