Bill Shipsey SC, a former chair of Amnesty International Ireland, Monday urged Ireland to adopt a code of conduct for retired judges following a controversy surrounding the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) Courts. Shipsey penned an op-ed in for the Irish Times suggesting that “rules of professional conduct should require retired judges to avoid any [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday published a call asking Hong Kong to end its “unfair” trial practices against 47 lawmakers and activists charged under the national security law imposed in 2020 and immediately release those still detained. According to HRW, the crimes established by the law are “overly broad and arbitrarily applied.” After the media [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya. She reports from Nairobi.  Kenyan elections are like a movie – a really good movie, in fact.  We have the theatrics and the suspense element and our elections have enough plot twists to leave the whole world at the edge of their seats as they wait [...]

Kenyan presidential candidate and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga filed a petition Monday with the Kenyan Supreme Court challenging the country’s 2022 presidential election results. Odinga’s challenge follows the Kenyan election regulator’s announcement last week that current Deputy President William Ruto won the election. Odinga’s petition highlights many concerns that his supporters raised after Ruto [...]

JURIST Belarus correspondent Ulyana Belaya is a student in the International Law and European Union Law program at the European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania. She left Belarus in September 2021. The text of this dispatch has been lightly edited to preserve the author’s voice. The 2022 edition of the World Press Freedom Index put Belarus [...]

Barristers practicing criminal law in the UK have voted to strike “indefinitely” in a ballot action, the Criminal Bar Association announced Monday. The walkout will start on Monday, September 5, meaning virtually all criminal court cases in England and Wales will be unable to proceed. Our members have made the difficult decision to adopt the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Sunday temporarily stayed Senator Lindsey Graham’s scheduled testimony before a grand jury in Georgia on Tuesday. This decision results from an appeal from the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Judge Robert McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County granted a subpoena for Graham in July, [...]

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Sunday announced the government’s plans to decriminalize sex between men, saying this was “the right thing to do and something that most Singaporeans will now accept.” Specifically, Lee announced the repeal of Section 377A, which provides: Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or [...]

Mexican police have arrested the country’s former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam on charges of enforced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice. These charges relate to a 2015 investigation led by Murillo Karam into the 2014 disappearance of 43 male students of a teachers’ college located in the town of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state.  On the night [...]

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has announced she won a preliminary injunction in her lawsuit to prevent the enforcement of a 1931 law banning abortions in Michigan. Whitmer stated, “I am grateful for this ruling that will protect women and ensure nurses and doctors can keep caring for their patients without fear of prosecution.” The 1931 law [...]