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6 Dec 2006, 6:14 am
[JURIST] Rwandan President Paul Kagame [official website; BBC profile] publicly alleged Wednesday that France supported the 1994 genocide [HRW backgrounder; BBC backgrounder] that wracked the African nation. [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 1:56 am
Last December I had picked up reports on a debate currently ongoing in France to perform a merger between the profession of the Patent Attorneys ("conseils en Propriété Industrielle") with the profession of the Lawyers ("avocats"). [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 10:07 am
[JURIST] Judges, lawyers, and court clerks went on strike in France Thursday to protest a proposal to eliminate 319 French courts. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 1:22 pm
[JURIST] A US magistrate judge for the Southern District of Florida [official website] issued a ruling Tuesday recommending that the US Department of State [official website] extradite former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega [BBC backgrounder] to France when he is released from federal prison [JURIST report; Federal Bureau of Prisons materials] on September 9, 2007. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 8:10 pm
France is joining at least five other countries where Internet service providers block access to child pornography and to content linked to terrorism and racial hatred, the French interior minister said. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 7:31 am
France’s top soccer club, Olympique Lyonnais, plans to raise up to 103 million euros ($132.9 million) through the country’s first soccer-based I.P.O. soon, the Financial Times reported Friday. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 12:27 pm
France's opposition Socialist Party had pushed for a national [read post]
6 May 2015, 1:38 pm by Emelina Perez
[JURIST] France's National Assembly [official website, in French], the lower house of parliament, approved Bill relating to Intelligence (No. 2669) [text, in French] on Tuesday, which would allow authorities to increase surveillance of anyone linked to terrorism investigations without permission from a judge. [read post]
14 Dec 2005, 1:40 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] is considering a proposed resolution, offered by France at the request of Lebanon, that would widen the scope of the UN probe [UN materials] into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri [JURIST news archive] to include other politically motivated killings that have occurred in Lebanon during the past year. [read post]
8 Nov 2005, 1:05 am
[JURIST] France's Interior Ministry [official website, in French] announced Tuesday that the government has authorized local officials to use emergency powers [press release] to help deal with riots that have broken out across the country [JURIST report] over the past 12 days, mostly instigated by disaffected Muslim immigrant youths. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 12:07 pm
[JURIST] The French parliament may soon consider a draft bill proposing the addition of class action lawsuits [JURIST news archive] to France's legal system after French Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry Thierry Breton [official profile, in French] introduced the legislation at a weekly cabinet meeting Wednesday. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 8:07 am by Rebecca DiLeonardo
This marks France's first-ever piracy trial, with three additional trials expected to follow. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 6:04 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
[JURIST] Former Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] arrived in France Tuesday to face money laundering charges after being extradited from the US. [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 4:51 am
In the coming days, France will ratify the London Agreement, which does away with the need to translate patents into all languages, Francois Fillon, the new French prime minister, said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper Tuesday. [...] [read post]
6 Jul 2006, 3:33 am
[JURIST] France has responded to reports [JURIST report] that its intelligence agents interviewed six former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees now on trial [JURIST report] in Paris while they were detained at the US prison, saying that the agents visited the detainees for the administrative purposes of identifying the French citizens and generally assessing their situation. [read post]
2 Feb 2013, 10:47 am
In any case, yesterday's agreement does not mean that Google will have to pay for snippets of news content that appear on its search pages, clarifies France 24. [read post]
At the conclusion of his trial, Moldovan fled to France, and an EAW was issued by Romanian authorities for the purpose of enforcing his prison sentence. [read post]
11 Sep 2023, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
On Thursday, France's Council of State upheld the government's ban Muslim girls wearing the abaya at school. [read post]