International brief ~ Nepal high court issues stay on radio station closure order
Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Nepal Supreme Court has issued a stay order preventing the Nepalese Ministry of Information and Communication from enforcing its decision to close down Radio Sagarmatha for carrying BBC's...
Pentagon rejects expert testimony for Australian Guantanamo prisoner
The Pentagon has refused to allow expert witnesses to testify at the upcoming military commission hearing for Australian terror suspect David Hicks , a decision that his US military lawyer...
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Edwards, Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, says that the new Terrorism Bill presented to Parliament by the Blair government in the wake of the London bombings...
US file-sharing companies seek agreement with recording industry
Discussions are ongoing between at least five online music file-sharing companies and recording industry executives in an attempt to convert the networks, which allow users to freely swap music over the internet, to paid services. Several companies have initiated...
NJ appeals court says DNA database for convicted criminals constitutional
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a law requiring all convicted criminals to register for a state DNA database in New Jersey is constitutional. The New Jersey Office of the Public Defender had...
UK opposition leader urges courts not to interfere with terror laws
Britain's Conservative Party leader Michael Howard Wednesday joined an earlier call by former UK Home Secretary David Blunkett for the British courts not to interfere with Parliament's efforts to enact new anti-terrorism laws....
Corporations and securities brief ~ Bristol-Myers settles fraud case with DOJ
Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, Bristol-Myers Squib has reached a $300 million settlement with the federal government over securities fraud. US Attorney for the district of New Jersey Christopher Christie announced the settlement...
Six Pitcairn Island men, found guilty of multiple sexual abuse charges in October 2004 , have lost their appeal in the Pitcairn Supreme Court sitting in Auckland, New Zealand. The Court denied all of the defense's arguments, including...
The UK House of Lords and House of Commons clashed Wednesday over proposed legislation to effect key changes to the British legal system. The legislation aims to further separate the judiciary from politics by stripping...
Queen v. Headteacher and Governors of Denbigh High School, Supreme Court of Judicature Court of Appeal , Lord Justice Brooke, March 2, 2005 [ruling that a British high school decision to exclude from school a student wearing a jilbab,...
