NewsHere’s the international legal news we covered this week:
The ruling follows the arrest of CNRP’s leader Kem Sokha following accusations that the party was plotting to overthrow the current government with the help of the US government.
HRW conducted interviews with 52 women and girls who fled from the Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships.
The court also upheld [Reuters report] life sentences against seven other individuals, while handing out 10-year sentences to 39 individuals and three-year sentences to 19 others.
Badie and 88 other Muslim Brotherhood members were convicted for their role in the violent clashes that broke out in the city of Ismailia following the political turmoil that led to the ouster of then president and member of Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Morsi [BBC profile].
The Final Agreement to End the Armed Conflict and Build a Stable and Lasting Peace [text, English translation] is the second recent attempt to obtain peace between Colombia’s government and rebel forces.
The protests are in response to a publication of the electoral calendar that stated the general elections would again be pushed back to December 2018.
The Alcohol (Minimum Pricing)(Scotland) Act of 2012 [text, PDF] sought to institute minimum pricing for alcohol based on a formula factoring in the minimum price per unit, the strength of the alcohol, and the volume of the alcohol to address the societal consequences of cheap alcohol.
According to HRW, public hospitals and private clinics are utilizing so-called “conversion therapy,” regarding LGBT individuals’ identity as a disorder.
The ruling came in a case brought by a Spanish national who had attained dual citizenship status with Spain and the UK and then the UK denied her Algerian husband residency.
The court considered the following question in interpretation of Directive 2004/38/EC [text] concerning the right of free movement of EU citizens to other Member States:
Where a Spanish national and Union citizen:
- moves to the United Kingdom, in the exercise of her right to free movement under Directive [2004/38]; and
- resides in the United Kingdom in the exercise of her right under Article 7 or Article 16 of Directive [2004/38]; and
- subsequently acquires British citizenship, which she holds in addition to her Spanish nationality, as a dual national; and
- several years after acquiring British citizenship, marries a third country national with whom she resides in the United Kingdom;
Are she and her spouse both beneficiaries of Directive [2004/38], within the meaning of Article 3(1), whilst she is residing in the United Kingdom, and holding both Spanish nationality and British citizenship?
The court held that a third country national does not have the right of residence under Directive [2004/38] but is eligible for the right of residence through his spouse under Article 21(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) [text].
The study found that more than half of citizens would consider traveling to Switzerland for assistance dying, but only a quarter could actually afford the average cost of 10,000 euros.
In October the High Court of Justice rejected [JURIST report] a terminally ill individual’s petition for assistance to die, thereby upholding the Suicide Act 1961 [text], which makes it illegal to assist in suicide.
Judge Eady QC wrote:
The issue at the heart of the appeal can be simply put: when the drivers are working, who are they working for? The [Employment Tribunal]’s [(ET)] answer to this question was that there was a contract between [Uber London Ltd] [(ULL)] and the drivers whereby the drivers personally undertook work for ULL as part of its business of providing transportation services to passengers in the London area.
