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French Minister of Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna confirmed in an interview Saturday with Le Parisien that the Iranian government has detained two additional French citizens. Colonna’s statements confirmed information reported Friday by Le Figaro that two French nationals were arrested before anti-government protests sparked by the death of 21-year-old Mahsa Amini started. The identity of [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Ciara Dinneny is a trainee with the Law Society of Ireland. She files this dispatch from Dublin. The Irish Government approved legislation last month that will provide for a payment scheme and [...]

A group of Jamaicans are demanding reparations for slavery from England. British Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge Kate are set to have a three-day visit to Jamaica. The visit, to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee (70th anniversary) of the Queen’s coronation, will officially begin Wednesday and end on Thursday. This visit is also during [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 3L Amanda Werger reports. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice Monday granted a 10-day injunction preventing truckers and others participating in the “Freedom Convoy” demonstration [...]

Harper Collins settled a libel suit Wednesday with the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. The book “Putin’s People,” authored by Catherine Belton, was published in 2021 in paperback format. The book dealt with KGB’s influence in Russia in the context of Putin and his influence on the West. Abramovich filed a libel suit against HarperCollins Publishers [...]

The Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) ruled Monday that the governments of Canada and Ontario have broken a pair of 1850 treaties with the Anishinaabe peoples by capping the annual payment at a few dollars per year in exchange for a large area of the northern part of Ontario. The Robinson-Huron Treaty and Robinson-Superior Treaty [...]

The High Court of Australia found on Wednesday that the higher tax rate for working holiday makers breached a treaty with the UK and was discriminatory. In December 2016, the Australian Parliament established a new tax rate applicable to persons holding working holiday visas, added to the Income Tax Rates Acts 1986. This meant that individuals [...]

Claims of fraud figure prominently in the fallout from last November’s Presidential election. Some claim that voting machines actually manipulated votes and vote counts. These claims are sufficient widespread that Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D Nevada) and Senator Tom Carper (D Delaware) refuted those claims on the Senate floor during the Electoral College debate. Nevertheless, [...]

On August 3, New Jersey’s Supreme Court publicly responded to a letter from more than 100 New Jersey law school faculty and administrators rejecting their call for a one-time issuance of “diploma privilege” for 2020 law school graduates and other first-time bar applicants in lieu of a remotely proctored bar examination in October provided by [...]

Since March 2020, the American legal community has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the nation sits on the brink of financial and housing, healthcare, election, and immigration crises, state supreme courts and bar examiners insist on implementing the bar exam, further delaying the licensure of thousands of incoming attorneys. Their ostensible reason? To [...]