The Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) Sunday hosted the Indigenous Youth Justice Conference, which adopted a joint resolution calling to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14. The conference examined “many complex issues associated with Indigenous youth justice” and promoted “meaningful discussion about ways to improve the situation.” The conference, held [...]

James Ekin is a UK staff correspondent for JURIST. Home Secretary Suella Braverman and the immigration minister could be summoned to face MPs to explain the “car crash” decisions behind chaos at a migrant holding centre, statistics on which can be found here. This comes after she sent private government documents through her personal email [...]

A petition was filed Friday with the US Supreme Court asking the Court to review the constitutionality of the felon disenfranchisement provision of Mississippi’s 1890 Constitution. The plaintiffs, Roy Harness and Kamal Karriem, initiated the lawsuit to challenge the felony disenfranchisement provision under the Mississippi Constitution claiming that “Section 241 from the 1890 Constitution is [...]

Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. Here, one of them comments on proposed legislation now being steered through the Belarusian parliament that would authorize removal of citizenship from ordinary Belarusians. For privacy and security reasons, we [...]

Canadian law students are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Canada. Mélanie Cantin is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada and a 2L at the University of Ottawa. Although it has now been over eight months since the end of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, the fallout and consequences of last [...]

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. University of London law graduate Mariyam Taher Qayyum files this dispatch from Islamabad.  Religious extremism is on the rise once again in Pakistan, a country that is persistently condemned for its disregard for human rights. The [...]

A report released Thursday from Cambridge University claims the United Kingdom police’s use of facial recognition technology (FRT) has breached numerous ethical and human rights obligations. Published in the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy, the report audited the use of FRT technology by the Metropolitan Police and the South Wales Police. Three main issues [...]

The United States Capitol Police (USCP), FBI, and San Francisco Police are jointly investigating a Friday break-in at the home of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. Early Friday an intruder broke into US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home in San Francisco. The intruder attacked Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer, [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada Friday declared the country’s national sex offender registry unconstitutional. Section 490.012 of Canada’s Criminal Code requires mandatory registration on a national sex offender registry, and section 490.013 requires lifetime registration for offenders convicted of two or more sexual offenses. The court found the criminal statutes violate Section 7 of Canada’s Charter [...]

Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney of the Committee on Oversight and Reform Friday introduced the Abortion Care Awareness Act of 2022. This act would create a national public health, education, awareness and outreach campaign to provide accurate information about where and how to obtain abortion care ​in an attempt to enhance accessibility. The act directs the Secretary [...]