Radmacher v. Granatin, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, July 2, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on pre-nuptial agreements.

A Russian law outlawing gambling in most of the country went into effect Wednesday, with authorities shutting down casinos and confiscating gambling machines. The law, passed in 2007, bans gaming in Russia's cities and towns, but designates some remote areas of the country where gambling is still allowed, including Primorye and Siberia. Industry representatives estimated [...]

The lawyer for jailed Zimbabwe opposition cabinet member-designate Roy Bennett said Wednesday that his trial on terrorism charges will begin on October 13. Trust Maanda said that prosecutors have also revised the conditions of Bennett's bail , requiring him to report bi-monthly to police, rather than three times a week . Bennett, the treasurer general [...]

Fijian Prime Minister Commodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama on Wednesday announced plans to establish a new constitution by September 2013. Bainimarama said that the new constitution would be in place at least one year prior to the elections planned for September 2014 to allow the public to become familiar with the document prior to voting [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesday announced that nine prisoners were transferred Saturday to a detention facility in Benin to serve their sentences. A May 18 order by ICTR President Sir Dennis Byron requested the transfer from the UN Detention Facility at Arusha, Tanzania to Beninese custody. The prisoners, including former Kigali-Rural [...]

Allen St. Pierre : "Despite the glamorization on the hit Showtime series "Weeds," flashy documentaries on CNBC delving into the business side of California's multi-billion dollar annual cannabis industry derived from Californians' unprecedented 13-year old legal access to medical cannabis products – qualifying patients in the state (and there are hundreds of thousands of them [...]

The lawyers for terrorism suspect Ahmed Ghailani on Tuesday requested access to secret prisons operated by the Central Intelligence Agency at which their client was held prior to his transfer to Guantanamo Bay . The motion asks Judge Lewis Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to grant [...]

Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LL.M. '08 and JD '12, writes about an experience in her home country of Iraq… This summer, I returned to Iraq to intern with the Global Justice Project: Iraq, which is run by the University of Utah. The purpose of the project is to provide the Iraqi Council of Representatives [...]

The White House on Monday accepted the resignation of impeached federal judge Samuel Kent from his seat on the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas . In a resignation letter submitted last week, Kent said he would step down by the end of June. Kent recieved a letter from White House Counsel [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law and Founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2002 to 2005 says that in responding to post-electoral unrest Iran's Supreme Leader is utilizing a method employed by history's most notorious dictators… Events in Iran are tragically unfolding before our very [...]