The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday endorsed the creation of a nation-wide securities regulator. Canada is the only G20 country that does not currently have a national securities regulator. There have been a number of attempts to make a nationwide regulator in Canada since the 1930s. The Canadian Constitution is structured to give the [...]
Ecuador’s National Court of Justice on Wednesday ordered Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa, to stand trial for his alleged role in the 2012 attempted kidnapping of Correa’s political opponent, Fernando Balda. Balda claims that five men attempted to kidnap him in Bogota in 2012 on Correa’s orders and that the kidnapping was discovered and halted by Colombian [...]
The General Court of the European Union ruled Thursday that testing vacuum cleaners using empty dust bag receptacles does not serve the purpose of one of its energy efficiency regulations. The regulation in question is known as Directive 2010/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council. The directive was finalized in May 2010. As of September 1, [...]
The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) in the Philippines on Thursday condemned the killing of human rights lawyer Benjamin Tarug Ramos, who was the organization’s Secretary General. “e was for the longest time the ‘go-to’ pro-bono lawyer of peasants, environmentalists, activists, political prisoners and mass organizations in Negros,” says the press release. “Ben is [...]
UN Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy said Thursday that sanctions that seek to block a country’s trade completely are equivalent to economic warfare against civilians. Economic sanctions are meant to burden states, but these often expose civilians to hardships, including impediments to humanitarian assistance. According to Jazairy, blocking necessities such as food and medicine “expos innocent [...]
A UN human rights expert said Thursday that in order for Cambodia to “achieve a durable peace and sustainable development,” the Cambodian government must work more closely with civil society groups. The expert noted that “civil society organizations still faced considerable burdens in complying with Cambodia’s restrictive laws.” The expert urged the government to review [...]
Senior Judge Roslyn Silver of the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Wednesday sentenced Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah to life plus 30 years in prison for crimes committed in 2011 related to bomb construction. Alahmedalabdaloklah, a.k.a. Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Ahmad, was convicted by a federal jury in March for seeking “to harm American soldiers by conspiring with [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Wednesday that the Hungarian state’s monopoly on mobile payment systems for public parking, road tolls and public transportation fees is contrary to EU laws. The mobile payment system, which is accessible through smartphones and computers, was made mandatory by the government. The mobile payments were processed by a company [...]
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Wednesday regarding service processes for foreign states under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and attorney’s fee caps for lawyers representing clients in Social Security benefit cases. In Republic of Sudan v. Harrison, the petitioner is appealing a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Second [...]
A hearing began Tuesday for a Northern Ireland woman seeking judicial review of the criminal charges leveled against her for supplying abortion pills to her daughter in violation of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act. The woman, proceeding under the name JR76, is the first to present a legal challenge to criminal prosecution resulting [...]
