Under a new judicial dress code that took effect Wednesday, civil and family judges in the Judiciary of England and Wales will no longer wear wigs during court proceedings. The new dress code also features redesigned robes , intended to give a more modern and grounded appearance to members of the judiciary. The dress reforms [...]

Serbian President Boris Tadic refused to rule out partitioning parts of Kosovo , should other options regarding the resolution of a dispute between Serbia and the newly independent state fail. In an interview with Serbian television channel RTS , Tadic said that the option is "not off the table." Alexander Ivanko, the Director of Public [...]

The trial of former Yugoslav army chief of staff and general Momcilo Perisic , was delayed indefinitely Wednesday as there was a procedural glitch in the naming of judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia . Perisic was indicted before by ICTY in 2005 on charges including murder, persecution on grounds of [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to reconsider last term's decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana , holding that Louisiana could not impose the death penalty for the rape of a child. The court voted 7-2 to reject federal and state prosecutors' petitions for rehearing of the case. In the court's modified opinion released Wednesday, [...]

The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Wednesday implemented regulations denying hospitals payment for treating conditions caused by some common medical errors . Those regulations, announced last year, contain a so-called "never list" of preventable conditions for which hospitals may bill neither Medicare nor patients, including certain hospital-acquired infections, bedsores and complications [...]

A US district judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) seeking damages for the injuries and deaths of US citizens in attacks in Israel. District Judge George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York rejected defense arguments that the Palestinian groups [...]

Awzar Thi : "Whether the release of some nine thousand prisoners from Burma's jails last week was an act of self-described goodwill or a strategic manoeuvre by a government preparing the latest phase in its program for continued political control is of little significance when seen against the country's unchanging legal codes, courts and policing [...]

The Canadian Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC) decided Tuesday to move forward with a public hearing investigating the country's military detainee transfer process in Afghanistan despite a move from the Canadian Department of Justice to block the inquiry . MPCC Chair Peter A. Tinsley, issuing the decision pursuant to the National Defence Act , rejected [...]

Marijuana Policy Project, et al. v. Ross Miller, US District Court for the District of Nevada, September 30, 2008 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday pushed for the adoption of sweeping anti-graft legislation while opening the first meeting of the newly-established Anti-Corruption Council . Deflecting rumors that the legislation had stalled after the Russian conflict with Georgia , Medvedev described the urgency of the situation: Corruption in our country has taken on not only [...]