No one could fault the intention. The pity is the bill is unlikely to live up to it. The spectre of individual criminal liability for low-ranking bureaucrats is unlikely to produce a more candid state ...

The Taliban has formally entrenched a class-based justice system in Afghanistan under a newly enacted Criminal Procedure Code signed by its supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, a move that has ...

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The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon the Civil Rights Act – a Jim Crow-era law passed to ...

Canberra’s adoption of the IHRA definition clarifies how antisemitism is identified but leaves policing, prosecutions, and free speech law unchanged When Australia formally adopted the International ...

The U.K. now formally recognizes cryptocurrency as property following the passing of a new law this week. The Property (Digital Assets etc) Act received Royal Assent, the final step of an act becoming ...

Tania Nemer is one of dozens of immigration judges fired by the Trump administration this year. But a new lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., suggests what happened to Nemer — and why — has the ...

Criminal law attorneys work in perhaps the most emotionally charged area of the law. After all, their clients face outcomes that can deprive them of their freedom, perhaps for the rest of their lives.

“Responsible Child”, the ripped-from-the-headlines story of a 12-year-old boy who stands trial for murder, is top of the Netflix film charts. The TV movie, which first aired on the BBC in 2019, ...

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The Law & Order franchise has dominated NBC and many syndicated stations for decades, highlighting New York’s war on crime and the city’s most notorious offenders. Those stories were fresh and touched ...