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England and Wales banned the use of pain-inducing physical restraint last week in children’s prisons. Such techniques are to be “minimised and will only be used as a last resort where it is a reasonable, necessary and proportionate response” under a new framework which governs the operations of prisons in the UK. It will become [...]

UK Justice Secretary Alex Chalk KC announced on Friday that £220m will be invested over the next two years into the court estate as part of the Government’s uplift plan in the criminal justice system. The investments aim to ensure that the conditions of the court estate are acceptable for online hearings through better technology, [...]

Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and a 3rd year law student attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under a Kazakh government scholarship.  On July 12, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan ‘On the return of illegally acquired assets to the state’, and amendments were also adopted to [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the former State Councillor deposed and detained by the Myanmar military in February 2021, has been [...]

Lawrence Alado is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Uganda. This is one in a seasonal series of columns by JURIST law student staff and correspondents discussing their summer work in support of justice, human rights and the rule of law, in their own countries and around the world. The first week of my internship in [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it was criminally charging 78 people for their alleged involvement in healthcare fraud schemes. The alleged fraud schemes totaled over $2.5 billion and targeted the elderly, people with HIV, pregnant women and others. “These enforcement actions, including against one of the largest health care fraud [...]

The Texas House of Representatives voted Saturday to impeach Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton by a vote of 121 to 23. Paxton will now face a trial in the Texas Senate, where Paxton’s wife is a member, and has been suspended from office pending the upcoming trial, pursuant to Texas law. Paxton responded to the [...]

The Texas state House of Representatives filed articles of impeachment Thursday against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The articles alleges Paxton has committed 20 counts of criminal misconduct since he assumed office in 2015. One of the instance of misconduct alleged in the articles of impeachment is that Paxton directed employees in his office to [...]

A group of Chinese citizens who live in Florida, along with a real estate firm that serves clients of Chinese descent, filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a Florida law that imposes restrictions on some foreign nationals and businesses from buying property in the state. Their lawsuit asserts that the law, SB 264, forces them to cancel [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case in which members of Congress are seeking the disclosure of information regarding a real estate contract entered into by one of former president Donald Trump’s companies. The case, Carnahan v. Maloney, began after an investigation into a 2013 contract between General Services Administration (GSA) and [...]