US President George Bush announced Tuesday that Fred F. Fielding will serve as the new White House counsel . Fielding, who has advised Bush throughout his presidency and sat on the 9/11 Commission , will replace Harriet Miers , who announced her resignation last week. Bush praised Miers, saying "she has devoted herself to the [...]

German Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries said at a press conference Monday that Germany will attempt to make denial of the World War II-era Holocaust in which millions of Jews died at the hands of the Nazis illegal throughout the European Union. The plan is part of Germany's platform for its 2007 EU Presidency [...]

The number of detainees on hunger-strike at Guantanamo Bay has increased this month to 11 from five as the detention center's fifth anniversary approaches on Thursday. US military spokesman have in the past insisted that hunger strikes are a typical tactic of Al-Qaeda members, designed to achieve their release so that they can return to [...]

Lawyers for Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court, and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti , the two Saddam Hussein co-defendants sentenced to death alongside Hussein for crimes committed in the Iraqi village of Dujail in 1982, are continuing last-ditch efforts to stop Iraqi officials from [...]

British judges have rejected a UK government proposal that government ministers say would simplify sentencing and increase judicial discretion in dealing with serious criminals, calling it a "kneejerk reaction" to an earlier sentencing scandal over the possibility of parole within six years for a sex offender convicted in June. The proposal , entitled Making Sentencing [...]

A federal judge Monday sentenced a Pakistani man to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of conspiring to bomb a New York City subway station in retaliation for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib . Lawyers for Shahawar Matin Siraj petitioned the judge to impose a lesser sentence of 10 years, [...]

The US Senate Monday unanimously approved lifting a freeze on pay increases for federal judges. The freeze was imposed last month when a bill was passed by Congress to halt yearly cost-of-living raises for lawmakers and judges until February 15. The measure was passed as part of a commitment by Democrats to keep Congressional pay [...]

The voices of Saddam Hussein and his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid , known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali", were heard discussing the use of chemical weapons to kill thousands in audio tapes played Monday before the Iraqi High Tribunal during its ongoing genocide trial of six former Hussein regime officials originally charged with [...]

A.A. v. B.B. and C.C., Ontario Court of Appeal, January 2, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps who was accused in August 2006 of leaking detainee names while stationed at Guantanamo Bay was ordered Monday to face court-martial on charges of leaking secret national defense information to a person outside the government. The complaint against Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz does [...]