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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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
13 Sep 2022, 7:57 am
France borders several other countries where MAID is already permitted - (1) Spain to the south, (2) Switzerland to the east, and (3) Belgium and Luxembourg to the north. [read post]
6 May 2015, 1:38 pm
[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]
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]
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]
7 Feb 2008, 12:27 pm
France's opposition Socialist Party had pushed for a national [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]
7 Feb 2005, 3:37 am
France the New IP Forum of Choice? [read post]
9 Oct 2006, 6:03 am
[JURIST] French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin [BBC profile] has said that France [JURIST news archive] will impose a smoking ban [press release, in French] in public locations in February 2007, and will likely extend a smoking ban in restaurants, clubs and bars in 2008. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 8:07 am
This marks France's first-ever piracy trial, with three additional trials expected to follow. [read post]
13 Jul 2005, 12:15 pm
Under the treaty, France and many other EU member nations [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 6:04 am
[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]
14 May 2006, 3:10 am
Specifically, the bill creates a "competence and talent" card that would identify "assets for the development and influence of France [read post]
