Jennifer To is a JURIST correspondent for the UK and a law student at the University of Birmingham. On June 22, Keir Starmer stepped down from his role as Prime Minister of the UK. As the sixth prime minister the UK has seen within 10 years, the current political climate of the UK is uncertain. [...]

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India. On June 11, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court delivered a bail order that extends quite a bit further than its [...]

Taiwan withdrew from the 2026 Our Ocean Conference (OOC) held in Mombasa, Kenya, on June 16, after two Taiwanese delegates were denied entry to the conference, and later detained by authorities for over 20 hours. Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ocean Affairs Council condemned the Kenyan government for yielding to diplomatic pressure from Beijing. [...]

In a January dispatch by JURIST, we noted that former Ghana Finance Minister Kenneth Ofori-Atta was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pursuant to Ghana’s December 10 formal extradition request to the US Department of Justice for Ofori-Atta, who faces 78 counts of corruption and corruption-related offenses. However, on June 5, ICE’s removal proceedings against him were terminated after a [...]

Within the span of one week, Romania was struck twice by drones originating from the conflict in Ukraine: first by an aerial drone in the city of Galați on May 29, and then by a maritime drone that exploded in the Port of Constanța on June 5. The two incidents, unprecedented in their proximity and [...]

Jennifer To is a JURIST correspondent for the UK and a law student at the University of Birmingham. On June 15, the Court of Appeal held that the UK government’s proscription of advocacy group, Palestine Action, was upheld, overturning the High Court’s decision in February that the terror ban was unlawful.  On June 30, 2025, [...]

On Friday, May 29, Ghana’s Parliament considered and passed the Anti-LGBTQ+ bill 2025, after its re-introduction. The bill had previously passed in 2024 but failed to become law due to a lack of assent from the then president. As a result, it lapsed with the Eighth Parliament and required reintroduction and passage by the Ninth [...]

On May 20, Nairobi’s Milimani High Court issued a landmark ruling in Petition E490/2025 that fundamentally reshapes how Kenyan law treats consensual sex among minors. In a judgment delivered by Justice Bahati Mwamuye, the court held that applying Sections 8, 9, and 11 of the Sexual Offences Act (SOA) to teenagers in consensual, close-in-age relationships “violates [...]

Justice Nyaundi of Nairobi’s Milimani High Court on May 29 issued an urgent conservatory order suspending any move to establish the planned US-backed Ebola quarantine center. The conservatory order was granted following a petition by the Katiba Institute, barring officials from opening or approving the facility until the case is fully heard before the Court. [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All students are from Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho (CIED), a research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading legal information and [...]