The Constitutional Court of Ukraine limited the president's power to appoint and dismiss members of local judiciaries on Wednesday. The ruling affirmed that of the country's High Justice Council . In Ukraine, local judges and their deputies are first appointed by the Ukrainian Supreme Court. The president then has the power to approve or dismiss [...]

The US House of Representatives narrowly passed the Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act Wednesday, approving heavy criminal penalties for oil companies and individuals who take "unfair advantage" or charge "unconscionably excessive" prices for fuel. House leaders used an expedited legislative process, so the bill required a two-thirds majority and passed by 284-141 . The Bush [...]

Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice upheld the rights of trade unions in two opinions Wednesday. In Laval v. Partneri (C-341/05) , Mengozzi advised the court to allow trade unions to force companies from foreign EU member states to pay their workers the same that domestic workers would otherwise receive. Latvian [...]

Milorad Ulemek, paramilitary commander under Slobodan Milosevic , was convicted with 11 others on Wednesday for the assassination of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic . The Special Court in Belgrade sentenced Ulemek to 40 years imprisonment, the maximum sentence allowed under Serbian law, finding that he organized the assassination. Zvezdan Jovanovic, was convicted of [...]

Former US Department of Justice aide Monica Goodling testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday about the fired US Attorneys scandal , saying she did not play a key role in the firings but believed that previous Senate Judiciary Committee testimony by Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty was "incomplete or inaccurate in a number of [...]

Amnesty International Report 2007: the state of the world's human rights, Amnesty International, March 23, 2007 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Mahmoud Baiai and Izabela Trzcinska, et al., England and Wales Court of Appeal, May 23, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs vs. The Queen (on the application of Bancoult), England and Wales Court of Appeal, May 23, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan condemned the United States and other "Western democratic states" Wednesday for what she characterized as attempts "to roll back some fundamental principles of human rights" in their efforts to fight terrorism. Khan's remarks came with the release of the Amnesty International Report 2007 , which condemned the US for maintaining [...]

The Court of Appeals for England and Wales ruled Wednesday that provisions of the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004 are incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights , and upheld a 2005 lower court decision striking them down. The Act, designed to combat "sham marriages" entered into for immigration purposes required people born outside [...]