Stephen Cambone , undersecretary of defense for intelligence, on Thursday told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the CIA will no longer be allowed to hold unregistered "ghost" detainees at US military installations such as Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . Cambone said the newly issued interim interrogation rules which require a single standard to be [...]

Sgt. Hasan Akbar , the US soldier convicted of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder for attacking comrades with a rifle and grenades in Kuwait during the early stages of the Iraq invasion, was sentenced to death by a military jury on Thursday. Two officers were killed and fourteen others were injured in the attack. [...]

HR 240 . Read the full text of the House resolution as adopted by HR 241 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Quintavalle v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, UK House of Lords, April 28, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Advice on the legality of a war with Iraq, Lord Goldmsith, Attorney General for England and Wales, to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, March 7, 2003 . Excerpt: To sum up, the language of resolution 1441 leaves the position unclear and the statements made on adoption of the resolution suggest that there were differences of [...]

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Thursday offered Democrats a compromise over judicial nominees that would allow appellate court nominations to be voted on but would retain the filibuster for district court nominees. Under the offer, the Senate would be limited to 100 hours of debate on appeals court judicial nominees before they would be [...]

A UK businessman was convicted on Wednesday of attempting to aid terrorists for selling a missile launcher to an informant claiming he was going to attack the US. Hemant Lakhani, a British citizen from India, was found guilty on five charges, including attempting to provide material support to terrorists and illegal arms sales. He was [...]

As briefly reported on JURIST Wednesday evening, the US House late Wednesday voted to reverse GOP ethics rules on investigating House members that had divided the House Ethics Committee since the rules were approved in December 2004. By a 406-20 vote , lawmakers approved H.Res. 241 , which returns ethics rules to the form they [...]

The UK House of Lords on Thursday upheld an appeals court ruling that the creation of "designer babies" to treat siblings with genetic disorders was allowed. Five law lords unanimously ruled that the Human and Fertilization and Embryology Authority could allow tissue typing treatment. The decision stemmed from a 2003 case in which the parents [...]

The US Army is planning to issue a revised interrogations manual that will expressly limit techniques used at Abu Ghraib prison that drew outrage when publicly revealed. Army officials on Wednesday said that the new manual, the first revision in 13 years, prohibits stripping prisoners, forcing them to remain in stress positions, imposing dietary restrictions, [...]