EU and UK officials announced Thursday that a post-Brexit trade deal has been agreed. The deal follows four years of negotiations that ensued after the UK voted to leave the EU in a June 2016 referendum. At the press conference on the outcome of the EU-UK negotiations, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held Tuesday that Turkey is to take all necessary measures to secure the immediate release of Selahattin Demirtaş, a Kurdish politician held by the Turkish government on terrorism charges. The Grand Chamber held that there had been multiple violations of the European Convention of Human Rights. It also found no [...]

The High Court of Justice dismissed a civil claim Wednesday brought by Rangzieb Ahmed against MI5, MI6, the Foreign Office, the Home Office, the Attorney General and Greater Manchester Police. Ahmed, who was convicted of a series of terror offences in 2008, issued proceedings against the defendants in 2009, claiming damages for false imprisonment, assault, battery, [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor said Friday that a preliminary investigation has found that there is a reasonable basis to believe that crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed in Ukraine, justifying the opening of an investigation. The preliminary investigation was opened in 2014 when the Ukraine lodged a declaration under [...]

A New South Wales Law Reform Commission report published Wednesday has recommended that voluntary affirmative consent to sexual activity be required under the Australian state’s law of consent in relation to sexual offences. The report proposes that a new subdivision be added to Part 3, Division 10 of the Crimes Act dealing with sexual offences [...]

The UK House of Commons Justice Committee released a report Thursday recommending that the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales be reviewed. Currently children in England and Wales can be arrested and charged with a crime from the age of 10. Under the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019, the age of [...]