UK judges, intelligence experts call for halt to Israeli arms sales
London, UK Reuters Three former Supreme Court justices have joined more than 600 members of the British legal profession in calling for the government to halt arms sales to Israel, saying it could make Britain complicit in genocide in Gaza. Their call was also backed by two of the country’s leading intelligence experts, who argued […]
Taking a stand: Young Russian lawyers step up to defend anti-war protesters
LUCY PAPACHRISTOU, of Reuters, reports on the work of young Russian lawyers defending those who have opposed the country’s invasion of Ukraine…
Nicaragua arrests 40 opposition figures in new round-up of critics
Reuters Forty political opponents of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega have been arrested and charged with crimes including conspiracy and treason in a new round-up of government critics, relatives of five of the detainees said on Thursday. The opposition figures were detained on Wednesday night, taken to the capital Managua to be charged, then transferred back […]
Lawyers: papal decrees violated fraud suspects’ human rights
Vatican CityAP Defence lawyers in the Vatican’s fraud and extortion trial on Friday accused Pope Francis of violating their clients’ human rights by issuing four secret, executive decrees that gave prosecutors free reign to investigate in ways that deprived the suspects of basic legal guarantees. The lawyers argued that the resulting trial into the Vatican’s […]
Afghan women lawyers on the run face life in limbo abroad
Athens, GreeceReuters When the Taliban seized Afghanistan, lawyer Bibi Chaman Hafizi heard the militants were going door to door, hunting for people who worked for the state, so she burned every document in her home and went into hiding. Then she fled the country. Like dozens more women working in the legal sphere, Hafizi, who […]
Southern Baptist Convention’s lawyers to cut ties after vote to waive privilege
RNS The longtime general counsel for the Southern Baptist Convention has decided to cut ties with the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. The decision came after members of the SBC’s Nashville-based executive committee decided to waive attorney-client privilege as part of a sexual-abuse investigation. That decision means that records of conversations on legal matters among executive […]
WOW!: OUT OF COURT – UGANDANS TURN TO “BAREFOOT LAWYERS” TO SETTLE LAND DISPUTES
LIAM TAYLOR, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a Ugandan non-profit is helping people did with property rights issues…
Philippine indigenous activist shot dead in ‘increasingly hostile climate’
Thomson Reuters Foundation Authorities must thoroughly investigate the murder of an indigenous activist in the Philippines, where defenders of land and environment are increasingly under attack, said a group of Southeast Asian lawmakers on Monday. Ricardo Mayumi was shot dead on 2nd March in his home in Ifugao Province in the country’s north. He was […]