Arrest warrants issued for former Iraqi government ministers
A spokesman for new Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's Dawa Party said Saturday that arrest warrants have been issued for two former cabinet ministers in former Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's government. Ex-Transport Minister Louei Hatim Sultan...
Jordan's King Abdullah announced Thursday that he was willing to review the 1992 conviction of Ahmad Chalabi , sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court to 22 years of hard labor for embezzling funds from Petra...
A Global Alliance Against Forced Labor, International Labor Organization, May 11, 2005 . Excerpt:Forced labour must be punishable as a crime. This is, in fact, almost universally the case today. The vast...
The International Labor Organization said Wednesday that some 12.3 million people worldwide are enslaved. The figure was publicized in a new ILO study of forced labor and modern slavery across the globe....
UK government presents plan to cut legal aid costs, shorten trials
British Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer Wednesday proposed a plan to cut the length of criminal trials and reduce the costs of legal aid , which have risen by a third since the Labor Party took...
The New Class Action Legislation: Denying Many Americans a Fair Day in Court
JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Lerach, senior partner of the Lerach Coughlin complex litigation firm headquartered in San Diego who has led the prosecution of hundreds of securities class and stockholder derivative actions recovering billions of dollars, says that the...
US Department of Health and Human Services head Mike Leavitt announced Friday that the agency will actively enforce the little-used Born-Alive Infant Protection Act . President Bush signed the bill into law in 2002 requiring health...
The Israeli government has released a report setting material damages to the Jewish people during the Holocaust between $240 billion and $330 billion. The report is the first of its kind, including not only the...
International brief ~ Annan flags Sudan threats if ICC acts against government
Leading Tuesday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has flagged and implicitly condemned threats from several high-ranking Sudanese officials warning that international personnel in the country may be at greater risk if the International Criminal Court [official...
Emil Alperin et al. v. Vatican Bank, United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, April 19, 2005 [ruling that claims made by Eastern European survivors of the Holocaust against gold and other holdings of the World War II...
