Britain's Lord Justice Sedley has recommended in a lecture to Leicester University Law School that the country should establish a national DNA database. Sedley, known for his civil rights beliefs, cited the benefit DNA could further provide in assisting criminal apprehension and prosecution, and suggested that the risks in such a system were controlable is [...]

A Delaware Chancery Court judge Wednesday ordered an additional hearing in Oracle's case against PeopleSoft, delaying a decision on whether to remove PeopleSoft's anti-takeover provisions in the event of a merger with Oracle. The case was previously argued before Vice Chancellor Leo Strine over two weeks in October, but Strine ruled that another hearing was [...]

AP is reporting that the Ukrainian election commission has declared Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner of Sunday's disputed presidential election. Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko had disputed early projections after official tallies diverged from exit polls showing Yushchenko with a wide margin of victory. BBC News reports that the nation was tensely awaiting the announcement. [...]

A bill to establish a new FBI-style security agency in the UK being considered Wednesday will also formalize and encourage the practice of offering witnesses immunity from prosecution. Ministers hope that by formalizing the practice, more people will be willing to testify for the government. A Home Office report earlier this year found that plea [...]

Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, must submit to questioning by Equatorial Guinea over his alleged involvement in a coup plot against the government, the South African High Court ruled Wednesday. The court upheld the subpoena against Thatcher, but maintained that he had the right to silence during the questioning, which [...]

Report of Carla del Ponte, Prosecutor of the ICTY, to the UN Security Council, November 23, 2004 . Excerpt: …it has to be stressed that a number of obstacles which are outside of the Tribunal's control may still derail the completion strategy. The first such obstacle is the lack of co-operation of States, mainly in [...]

US Ambassador to the UN John Danforth has criticized the UN General Assembly after the body appeared likely not to take action on a resolution condemning human rights violations in Sudan. A vote on the resolution is scheduled Wednesday, but the human rights committee was set to file a "no action" motion. In comments to [...]

Attorneys for Sami Al-Arian, a former professor facing charges of materially supporting terrorism, racketeering and money laundering, have sought to disqualify most of the government's evidence in the case, arguing that it was unconstitutionally obtained. Al-Arian, a former professor at the University of South Florida, and eight others were charged with making up the leadership [...]

Leaders from the UN tribunals for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda have reported to the Security Council that, despite some lack of cooperation by member states in arresting and transfering indicted individuals, they will complete their work by the 2008 deadline set by the Council. Carla Del Ponte, lead prosecutor for the [...]

Dan Tokaji, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University: "U.S. District Judge James Carr has denied a preliminary injunction and TRO, in a case seeking to compel Ohio election officials to complete a recount by the December 7 "safe harbor" date. His order can be found here on Rick Hasen's blog, and the moving papers [...]