Supreme Court rules in Marcos assets, litigating agent, sentencing guideline cases
The US Supreme Court handed down five decisions Thursday, including Republic of the Philippines v. Pimentel , where the Court ruled that an interpleader action to determine ownership of assets...
Myanmar state media defends Suu Kyi house arrest extension into sixth year
Myanmar law allows the continued detention of pro-democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi , the government-run New Light of Myanmar insisted in an editorial Wednesday. The editorial cited Myanmar's 1975 "Law Safeguarding...
Congo ex-militia leader seeks dismissal of ICC war crimes charges
Defense counsel for Thomas Lubanga moved to dismiss all charges against the former Congolese militia leader at an International Criminal Court (ICC) status conference at The Hague Tuesday on the ground that prosecutors have refused...
Virginia upholds Vermont grant of same-sex ex-partner child visitation rights
The Supreme Court of Virginia has upheld a woman's visitation rights regarding a child who was born to her former lesbian partner while the two were engaged in a same-sex union under Vermont law [Vermont...
The US should not try children under the age of 18 in military tribunals, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said in a report released Friday as part of a periodic review...
Japan's Ministry of Justice indicated Thursday that it would revise a law which denied Japanese citizenship to the illegitimate children of Japanese fathers and foreign mothers. The Supreme Court of Japan ruled Wednesday...
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the processes and procedures of the United States military commission system being used to try alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) are a betrayal of...
Japan court rejects law denying citizenship to illegitimate children of foreign mothers
The Supreme Court of Japan Wednesday struck down part of a law which denied Japanese citizenship to children born out of wedlock to Japanese fathers and foreign mothers. The Court found that Article 3 of the Nationality...
Chief Guantanamo judge insists dismissal of Khadr judge not political
The recent dismissal of the US military judge presiding over the military commission trial of Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was not politically motivated, chief Guantanamo judge Marine Col. Ralph H. Kohlmann...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Thursday dismissed the military judge presiding over the military commission trial of Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr . No explanation was given for the dismissal of...
