Open letter from ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, January 30, 2008 . Read the full text of the letter . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The judicial panel of the UK House of Lords unanimously ruled Wednesday that a sexual assault victim could sue a convicted attacker who later won £7 million in the National Lottery even though the six-year limitation for bringing compensation claims had expired. The Lords held that the victim could bring the claim against Iorworth Hoare [...]

Bernard Nicholas : "Cette audience devant la C.I.J de La Haye est en effet un épisode important de cette affaire. La République de Djibouti appuie sa demande sur un accord de coopération judiciaire passé avec la France, dès 1977 année de l'indépendance de Djibouti(ancienne colonie française). Selon Djibouti, la France doit transmettre le dossier judiciaire [...]

Ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry labeled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf an "extremist" on Wednesday, chiding Musharraf for deposing 60 judges, slandering judges, and keeping Chaudhry under house arrest . The government of Pakistan has kept Chaudhry and several other judges and lawyers under preventative detention since Musharraf declared emergency rule on November 3. [...]

The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California has recommended that former Milberg Weiss partner William Lerach receive two years in prison for his part in the firm's illegal kickback scheme. Lerach pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to obstruct justice after reaching an agreement with prosecutors in September. In court documents filed [...]

Lawyers for former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea on Wednesday filed a motion with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) requesting the removal of Cambodian military court chief Ney Thol from Nuon Chea's scheduled February 4 pre-trial hearing and all future proceedings relating to war crimes and crimes against humanity charges against [...]

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday issued a report pushing for the enforcement of sanctions against more than 12 countries who continue to use child soldiers in armed combat. According to the report, child soldiers continue to be used in African and Asian countries, including in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sudan and Sri [...]

A Spanish prosecutor on Tuesday filed an anticipated request before the Supreme Court of Spain to ban two Basque political parties for alleged ties to ETA , the armed Basque separatist movement. Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega has said the government has evidence that both the Basque Nationalist Action Party [...]

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said in a Tuesday letter to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had completed his investigation into CIA interrogation methods used on terror suspects, finding the agency's current methods to be legal. In the letter to Senator Patrick Leahy , Mukasey again refused to characterize waterboarding as [...]

Executive Order: Protecting American Taxpayers from Government Spending on Wasteful Earmarks, White House, January 29, 2008 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.