Amnesty International (AI) said Monday that the Australian government must discard two new proposed bills that they claim have the ability to infringe on civil work and whistleblower rights and limit scrutiny of the government. AI says the Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform Bill would impose arbitrary restrictions on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), impeding their ability [...]
US President Donald Trump on Friday directed JSecretary of Defense ames Mattis to ban transgender troops from serving in the military if they require surgery or significant medical treatment. The memorandum revokes the president’s August order , which reinstated a pre-2016 blanket ban on transgender military service but has been challenged in, and blocked by [...]
Spanish Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena charged 13 Catalan leaders for rebellion on Friday. The leaders include Jordi Sànchez, the former president of the Catalan National Assembly, as well as other former members of Catalonia’s Parliament. The charges came after an investigation into Catalonia’s declaration of independence last year. Llarena also charged five other former [...]
Former Bosnian military leader Ratko Mladić on Thursday appealed his conviction to the UN Mechanism for International Tribunals . Mladić was tried and convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, then sentenced to life imprisonment in November 22. On appeal, the defense cited time constraints that left them unable to review the [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: The UK Court of Appeal ruled this week that software is not a good, overruling the lower court opinion. UN human rights experts expressed concern Friday over the diminishing health of Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer jailed in China for inciting subversion of state [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: The Kentucky Senate approved a bill on Thursday that outlaws the use of the dilation and excavation abortion method for patients in their eleventh week of pregnancy or later. US President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday calling for the US Trade Representative to [...]
The UK Court of Appeal ruled this week that software is not a good, overruling the lower court opinion. The issue on appeal was whether the sale of a license to use software counts as a “sale of goods” under the UK’s commercial regulations. The court ruled that it did not, as the software was [...]
UN human rights experts expressed concern Friday over the diminishing health of Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer jailed in China for inciting subversion of state power. Jaing’s health has dramatically deteriorated in recent months, and the experts believe that he suffers from severe memory loss and that he may have been drugged. “This [...]
The Kentucky Senate approved a bill on Thursday that outlaws the use of the dilation and excavation abortion method for patients in their eleventh week of pregnancy or later. The method is most commonly used in second-term abortions. Violation of the law will be a Class D felony. The pregnant woman on whom the procedure [...]
US President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday calling for the US Trade Representative to develop a list of proposed tariffs against goods from China. The trade representative has 15 days to publish the list of proposed tariffs, which will undergo a period of notice and comment. After the notice and comment, the [...]
