Sri Lanka: Supreme Court must use its authority Scoop Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 6:44 pm | Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission | Sri Lanka: The Supreme Court must use its authority to expedite the passing of a law on contempt of court | On two occasions the United Nations Human Rights Committee has viewed that the GoSL has abused contempt of court...
Israeli court rejects plea to keep Kafka papers secret The Siasat Daily | Jerusalem, July 22: An Israeli court has ruled that papers once belonging to Franz Kafka be made public for the first time. | The unpublished works of the late Czech author have been hidden from the world for more than 40 years, and are the subject of a bitterly-contested ownership wrangle. | Tel ...
Egypt: Attorney General Addresses Police Abuse Case The New York Times | Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., left, said Wednesday during a visit to Cairo that he hoped an investigation into the death of a man in police custody last month would be carried out “in a transparent way” and that anyone responsibl...
Man in court accused of throwing an egg at Baroness Warsi London Evening Standard A man accused of pelting Baroness Warsi with eggs will appear in court today. | Gavin Reid, 23, of Green Close, Luton, will go on trial at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court, in London, charged with an offence under the Public Order Act. | Lady W...
Tribunal Delivers Measure of Justice for Cambodia Scoop Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 1:16 pm | Press Release: United Nations | With First Verdict, UN-Backed Tribunal Delivers a Measure of Justice for Cambodians | New York, Jul 26 2010 7:10PM They made their way from across Cambodia, young and old, rural and u...
Inquiry after Hove Crown Court judge's summing up BBC News Complaints that a judge made anti-Israel comments while summing up in the Hove Crown Court trial of seven anti-war activists are being investigated. | It follows a number of complaints to the Office for Judicial Complaints about Judge George Bathurst...
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Lawyer Calls Contractor in Crane Collapse a Scapegoat The New York Times | The crucial error that led to the toppling of a tower crane and the deaths of seven people two years ago was made well before the day of the collapse, the defense lawyer for a ri...
Foster Farms lawsuit yields $10m in damages Fresno Bee | Share | thefresnobee_994:/2010/07/25/2018502/foster-farms-lawsuit-yields-10m.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | Similar stories: | Livingston-based Foster Farms awarded $10M in suit Livingston-based Foster Farms ...
Abigail Josephs, Jason Law The New York Times | Abigail Josephs, a daughter of Lindsay Josephs and Dr. Mark Josephs of Rye, N.H., was married Saturday to Dr. Jason Law, the son of Rose Law and Tim F. Law of Brooklyn. Judge Sharon N. DeVries of the district and family courts in Rockingham County,...
Lawyers demand justice for flotilla victims Newsvine | Some 60 lawyers from 25 countries yesterday asked the Israeli judiciary to exert efforts to punish the parties responsible for a deadly Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in late May that claimed the lives of nine peace activists. | ...
Israel Puts Off Crisis Over Conversion Law Herald Tribune | JERUSALEM — A growing crisis between American Jews and the Israeli government over a proposed law on religious conversion was averted — or at least delayed — this week, with both sides agreeing to a six-month period of negotiat...
The grim business of chasing mass killers Irish Times | Darfur is the first genocide of the 21st century, it should be the last, says the ICC's chief prosecutor, writes ARTHUR BEESLEY European Correspondent in The Hague | A ring of fortified electric fencing surrounds the tower blocks in The Hague which are home to the International Criminal Court (ICC). From here chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo p...
Israel considers stance on aid flotilla inquiry Irish Times | MARK WEISS in Jerusalem | ISRAEL IS considering whether to co-operate with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigation into the maritime raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla after prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu described the probe as "similar to the Goldstone committee, with unsympathetic trends, to say the least". | No offici...
