One of Canada's top law firms has agreed to pay a $30 million settlement to former client Hollinger International for its role in failing to act in Hollinger's best interest during a series of now infamous transactions which enabled Conrad Black to pocket tens of millions of dollars. According to reports, Torys LLP – a [...]

France's National Assembly on Tuesday voted 373-27 in favor of a new anti-terrorism bill that will increase the use of video surveillance and allow police more time to question terror suspects. The proposal, which still needs to clear a Senate vote in January before becoming law, will also lengthen the duration of prison sentences for [...]

War crimes prosecutors and former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic were in rare agreement Tuesday in their opposition to a proposal by judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to split Milosevic's war crimes trial. Last week, ICTY judges suggested separating the charges related to the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo from the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed down a unanimous decision in Lincoln Property v. Roche , reversing the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, holding that a lawsuit filed in state court may be removed to federal court if all parties actually named are diverse. The case involved Virginia renters who sued [...]

The Australian House of Representatives passed the federal government's anti-terrorism bill Monday night, without amendments requested by a coalition Senate committee and by members of the Labor Party. The committee recommended Monday that a controversial sedition section be removed from the final draft and the sunset clause reduced to five years. Lawyers and academics have [...]

Arab news channel Aljazeera is considering taking legal action against President George W. Bush, after disclosures that the US president allegedly suggested bombing the broadcaster's headquarters in Doha, Qatar, in the spring of 2004. Last week, two British civil servants were charged with leaking a memo , in which British Prime Minister Tony Blair supposedly [...]

Lawyers for victims of Hurricane Katrina Monday asked for an extension of a program which houses displaced New Orleans residents in hotels at government expense, at an estimated $3 million per day, totaling $300 million since August 29. The request to keep the hotel program going is the latest filing in the class action lawsuit [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Griffin of Tulane Law School says that barely 4 months after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and dispersed its students and faculty, Tulane Law is re-opening its doors in January and looking forward to renewal of the institution and its community… Tulane Law School will reopen to the public on January [...]

Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said Monday that Croatia may cease to function as a state if the government returns property to Austrian citizens that had been confiscated by Yugoslav communists after World War II as planned. During WWII, the Ustasa regime , allied with the Nazi party, governed Croatia and hundreds of Jews, Serbs and [...]

Documents released Monday by the US Justice Department show that Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. was actively involved in efforts to expand law enforcement powers while employed as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration's Justice Department. The memos show that Alito argued for stronger penalties for violent civil rights violations; [...]