The Austrian federal chancellery on Saturday sent a draft law to parliament to legalize assisted death for seriously ill adults. The draft law follows the decision last December by the Constitutional Court of Austria that found the ban on assisted death to be unconstitutional. The court found that the ban violated the right to self-determination, [...]
India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma, a final year law student at Amity Law School, reports on the Centre’s striking contention in the Delhi High Court Monday that Indian law still does not recognize same-sex marriages in India. He files this for JURIST from New Delhi. The Union Government of India on Monday submitted in the [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul offers his latest observations and perspective on the looming humanitarian crisis in the country. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and [...]
Lufthansa and easyJet have gained backing from the EU General Court for their acquisitions of insolvent German carrier Air Berlin’s assets four years ago. In 2016, Air Berlin implemented a restructuring plan that included entering an agreement with Lufthansa in order to sublet aircraft and crew. However, the loss of financial support loans granted to [...]
Essentially, commercial arbitration in Iran is divided into two categories: domestic and international, each of which is subject to special regulations. The legal regime governing the domestic arbitration is Chapter Seven of the Iranian Code of Civil Procedure that applies to arbitrations mainly between Iranian nationals. In recent years, the parties to commercial disputes in Iran [...]
A federal district court in Manhattan has found Lev Parnas, a former associate of Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, guilty of six counts of US campaign finance law violations during the 2018 election. Parnas was charged with two counts of conspiring to make donations from a foreign national and making false statements to the Federal Elections Commission. He was [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his latest observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and institutional affiliation. The text has been [...]
The Government of India Friday filed an affidavit before the Delhi High Court averring that foreign commercial entities such as WhatsApp cannot challenge the constitutionality of Indian laws by invoking fundamental rights under the Indian Constitution. The affidavit was filed as part of the government’s response to WhatsApp’s lawsuit against the new Information Technology Rules [...]
The Swiss Federal Administrative Court ruled in favor of Geneva-based tech company Proton Technologies on Friday in an appeal to overturn a 2020 order by the Swiss Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Services (PTSS) that required the company to adhere to certain data retention and disclosure obligations that went against the platform’s privacy practices. Proton Technologies is [...]
Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, whose murder conviction for the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman was overturned last month, has been resentenced to a reduced term of 57 months in prison. He was originally sentenced to 12 and a half years. Noor fatally shot Justine Ruszczyk, 40, in 2017. Ruszczyk called the police after hearing [...]
