JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Parliament of Poland constituted an inquiry committee which held its first meeting on Monday to investigate the illegal use of Pegasus, a spyware software, by the members of the last ruling government and state officers, including police and other fiscal authorities. Chairman Sroka Magdalena heads the committee.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2024

The Hong Kong government released the new national security bill on Friday and sent it to the Legislative Council (LegCo) for deliberation. The bill consists of nine parts, including criminalizing several national security offenses not covered in the 2020 National Security Law but listed in Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law.

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JURIST

MARCH 3, 2024

The Peace Delegation of the Colombian Government announced the release of the 26 individuals who, until December 2023, had been reported and confirmed as victims of kidnapping with economic motives by Colombia’s self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (ELN).

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Amnesty International (AI) issued a statement Monday urging Ethiopian authorities to stop using the country’s state of emergency as a medium to “silence peaceful dissent” by arbitrarily detaining politicians and journalists critical of the government. ” The US previously called for an investigation into the killings.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The commission stressed that the damage done to civilian lives “outside the law” by government officials could be greater than the numbers stated. After the end of the civil war with TPLF, the government headed by Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed failed to continue their alliance with Fano.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2024

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran unveiled a report on Friday alleging widespread human rights violations committed by the Iranian government, particularly in response to the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests that began on September 16, 2022.

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2024

India’s Supreme Court intervened on Thursday in the ongoing dispute over the government’s Fact-Check Unit (FCU) and temporarily halted its operation following concerns raised by various parties, according to Live Law.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 22, 2024

“Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom, and May Again Threaten It.” ” Law professors Reva Siegel and Mary Ziegler have posted this article at SSRN. ” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

India’s Ministry of Law and Justice released Friday the Draft Mediation Bill, 2021 , inviting comments and suggestions from all stakeholders. As of date, in the absence of a separate statute, Section 89 of the Civil Procedure Code , as well as the rules framed by several high courts under that section, govern mediation in India.

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MARCH 15, 2024

The Indian central government banned Thursday 18 Over the Top (OTT) streaming platforms for alleged obscene and vulgar content. The post India central government blocks streaming platforms over alleged obscenity appeared first on JURIST - News. million across various platforms with multiple accounts.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

The French government introduced a series of urgent measures on Friday that abandon its plan to reduce state subsidies on agricultural diesel. The French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, told farmers the government will be putting agriculture “above everything.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Hong Kong government rejected on Thursday a petition from ten overseas Catholic Church leaders that called for the immediate and unconditional release of pro-democracy activist and media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai from prison. ” However, the Hong Kong government rejected the petition and described it as “misleading and slanderous.”

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 20, 2023

These law schools may help you land the government job you’ve been dreaming of. The post The Law Schools Where The Most Graduates Got Government Jobs (2022) appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Hong Kong’s government told the UN Human Rights Council in a report on Wednesday that Hong Kong has taken a “major turn from chaos to governance” since the implementation of the National Security Law. The report was published by the Hong Kong government after three weeks of public consultation in June.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Under the HRA, UK courts can also declare any domestic law as incompatible with the ECHR. Following a declaration of incompatibility, the government must amend the law to make it compatible with rights set out in the ECHR. This report outlined how the government has fulfilled these obligations in the last reporting year.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The UN expressed concern Monday over the UK government’s action to make the Rwanda deal operational. ” He warned of the negative human rights implications, stating: The combined effects of this bill, attempting to shield Government action from standard legal scrutiny, directly undercut basic human rights principles. .”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Australian Government passed new legislation on Wednesday relating to the detainment of migrants on public safety grounds. This comes mainly as a response to the recent High Court rulings in Australia that made it illegal for the government to detain migrants indefinitely if they cannot be extradited to their home nation.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Austrian federal chancellery on Saturday sent a draft law to parliament to legalize assisted death for seriously ill adults. The draft law follows the decision last December by the Constitutional Court of Austria that found the ban on assisted death to be unconstitutional.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

“The Wealth Tax You May Already Owe; If the Supreme Court rules for the government in Moore v. all unrealized gains will be taxable under existing law”: Ilya Shapiro will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Irish Government announced Tuesday that they intend to legally challenge the UK’s Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 on human rights grounds under the European Convention on Human Rights. The Northern Ireland Legacy Act was introduced during Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2024

UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Tomoya Obokata warned the UK government that reports of forced labor under the country’s seasonal worker scheme could amount to potential breaches of international law, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) said on Friday.

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2024

A Canadian Federal Court judge ruled Tuesday in Ottawa that the Canadian government exceeded its authority and violated some protesters’ constitutional rights by invoking the federal Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests , which brought Canada’s capital to a standstill for three weeks.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Australian Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil stated in a Thursday interview that the federal government will introduce new legislation to monitor migrants who have recently been released from indefinite detention. The newly announced legislation is an attempt by the government to address that concern.

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Above The Law

APRIL 12, 2024

How do we continue to govern data and AI without hindering development? The post Navigating The Data Deluge: Privacy, AI Governance, And The Future Of Innovation appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2023

A group of human rights organizations on Saturday, wrote an open letter urging top Armenian officals to oppose a proposed law that would restrict access to internet services, thus limiting the population’s freedom of expression. We urge the Republic of Armenia to #KeepItOn.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) refused to grant leave to the government on Friday to appeal the acquittals of seven pro-democracy activists. The government requested the CFA grant it leave to appeal, arguing that the lower court’s reasoning unnecessarily narrowed the meaning of organization.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

“Elon Musk is suing to stop the government from enforcing labor laws. The post “Elon Musk is suing to stop the government from enforcing labor laws. The Supreme Court might agree with him.” ” Columnist Michael Hiltzik has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Thomas Kraemer is Senior Counsel at Kakar Advocates in Kabul, Afghanistan, and a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The first step in the processing of principal documents is for the concerned ministry or other government office to draft the desired legislation.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The federal and state governments are asking that the US District Court for the Western District of Washington stop Amazon from engaging in these allegedly anticompetitive behaviors and restructure their business to avoid such behavior in the future. In the case against Google, the court began hearing opening arguments on September 12.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development confirmed to German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) last week that four local Afghan employees of the German government aid organization Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) office in Afghanistan have been arrested by the Taliban-backed Afghan government.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

On Friday, various academic lawyers from across the UK and abroad signed an open letter to Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, accusing the government of “attacking” mostly immigration lawyers for advising and representing clients – especially those seeking asylum.

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APRIL 4, 2024

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The Government of India Friday filed an affidavit before the Delhi High Court averring that foreign commercial entities such as WhatsApp cannot challenge the constitutionality of Indian laws by invoking fundamental rights under the Indian Constitution. The government has asked the court to dismiss WhatsApp’s petition.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The government said that if curbs are not placed on these extremist groups, they will “mobilize their cadres for escalating secessionist, subversive, terrorist and violent activities” and “propagate anti-national activities in collusion with forces inimical to sovereignty and integrity of India.”

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The UK’s independent elections regulatory agency and watchdog, the Electoral Commission, Monday urged the government to reconsider proposed changes to its oversight arrangements in a public letter. The bill contains changes to government oversight of the Electoral Commission.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2023

The Government of Ukraine has dismissed several Ministers from their positions amid an anti-corruption push. The Government press release stated the dismissal was pursuant to Article 9.2 of the Law of Ukraine’s code on central executive bodies which provides that ministers will be dismissed at the request of the Prime Minister.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2023

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Australian government Thursday to establish a national Human Rights Act to protect the fundamental rights of individuals in Australia. HRW urged the Australian government to introduce a human rights act in order to allow individuals whose rights have been violated to be able to take action.

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