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ECHR rules South African runner did not have fair trial on need to lower testosterone levels to compete in women’s sportThe South African runner Caster Semenya has called for athletes’ rights to be better protected after Europe’s top human rights court…
THE lawyer for a French surgeon dubbed one of country’s worst sex offenders in history has died in an apparent suicide, a prosecutor has said.
Maxime Tessier, 34, had defended Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, who admitted at his trial to sexua…
Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgmentRussia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual vio…
Shipping and insurance law firm also pushes up revenue to all-time high
Shipping and insurance law firm pushes revenue to all-time high
Starmer and Macron are due to attend a more formal summit tomorrowThe BMA strike decision must be a tempting topic for Kemi Badenoch at PMQs, which is starting very soon. The Conservatives have repeatedly criticised the government for the way they swif…
US defendants can waive right to jury trial and in Germany jury trials were abolished in 1924One of the most significant recommendations in a review of the criminal courts in England and Wales, expected to be published this week, is likely to be the sc…
Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for crimes against humanityThe international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes agai…
Hundreds put to death for non-violent drug offences over past decade, with little scrutiny of Saudis, says AmnestySaudi Arabia has carried out a “horrifying” number of executions for drug crimes over the past decade, most of which were of foreign natio…
Reformers say more judge-only trials in England and Wales could lead to more miscarriages of justiceRemoving the right to a jury trial for more offences would disadvantage people of colour and other minorities and lead to more miscarriages of justice, …