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29 Sep 2010, 7:57 am
[JURIST] The Icelandic Parliament [official website, in Icelandic] on Tuesday voted [materials, in Icelandic] 33-30 to refer charges against former prime minister Geir Haarde [official profile, in Icelandic] to the Landsdomur, a special court created to try government ministers. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 7:32 am
[JURIST] Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [BBC profile] announced Sunday that he has no intention of revising the country's contentious blasphemy laws [text; JURIST news archive] after Governor Salman Taseer of Punjab province was shot and killed Tuesday [JURIST report] apparently due to his opposition to the law. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 10:07 am
[JURIST] A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday praised [statement; press release] an announcement by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak [official website] of plans to repeal the country's 1948 Sedition Act [text, PDF]. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 9:00 am
Elections - The Electoral Registration and Administration Bill 2012, sponsored by the United Kingdom's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, is one of the coalition government's latest bills from their 2010 Program for Government. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 1:08 pm
Township of Scott, Pennsylvania New Prime Inc. v. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 10:25 am
" Over the weekend, speaking to a group of Jewish Republicans, he referred to Benjamin Netanyahu as "Your Prime Minister. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 2:34 pm
Not so long ago gender quotas were talked about with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's 50% female cabinet, European... [read post]
4 Sep 2015, 3:32 am
"It was no secret that the recording industry was totally freaked out about this, and that resulted in the somewhat bizarre situation in which Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper single-handedly extended copyright on sound recordings for 20 years by sticking it into a budget update, without any public discussion or concern about the fact that he was simply wiping out twenty years of use of works that the public had been promised. [read post]
15 Oct 2015, 11:17 am
The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova [official website] stripped former prime minister Filat Vladimir [official profile] of immunity on Thursday and later detained him [AP report] on suspicion of involvement in a 2014 bank fraud scheme. [read post]
Liberal party in Canada, after promising marijuana legalization, projected to be big election winner
19 Oct 2015, 8:33 pm
As reported in this updating piece from the CBC News, headlined "Justin Trudeau to be prime minister as Liberals surge to majority," the Liberal Party in Canada today appears to have secured a huge victory in the county's national election. [read post]
19 Aug 2014, 9:37 am
Employees view it as a morbid task that doesn't have to be performed when in the prime of life. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 5:03 am
But Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to drop public hearings in which legislators ask questions of new judges means the opportunity to scrutinize the story of Suzanne Cote of Montreal is at an end. [read post]
19 Dec 2013, 6:00 am
[JURIST] An Egyptian court on Thursday acquitted former Egyptian prime minister and presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq and Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, the sons of deposed president Hosni Mubarak [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], of charges of embezzling public funds. [read post]
18 Feb 2014, 8:05 am
[JURIST] Former Pakistani prime minister Pervez Musharraf [BBC profile] made his first appearance in Pakistani court on Tuesday to answer charges of treason related to his suspension of the constitution and use of emergency powers in 2007. [read post]
23 Feb 2004, 3:09 pm
Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday in a newspaper interview that teachers will be given guidance on introducing random drug testing in British schools by next month. [read post]
9 Nov 2005, 4:08 am
[JURIST] The BBC is reporting that the UK government of Prime Minister Tony Blair has lost a House of Commons vote [BBC debate summary] on a key provision of its proposed Terrorism Bill [text] that would have authorized detention of terror suspects without charge for up to 90 days. 12:25 PM ET - AP is reporting that MPs in the House of Commons have instead approved a compromise measure to allow [read post]
30 Mar 2006, 12:40 pm
[JURIST] Omri Sharon, son of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon [BBC profile], appealed his nine-month prison sentence [JURIST report] on Thursday, apologizing for his actions and arguing that his resignation from the Knesset was punishment enough. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 10:05 am
Sonthi Boonyaratglin [BBC profile], the leader of Thailand's 2006 bloodless coup [JURIST report], said Friday on state television that he backs amnesty for ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC profile] and his party leaders. [read post]
30 Sep 2007, 9:02 am
[JURIST] Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader [official website] has criticized the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] for its judgments [JURIST report] on Serb suspects allegedly involved in the 1991 Vukovar massacre [BBC backgrounder], saying in a letter sent Friday to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the ICTY failed to act in a "balanced and [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 4:27 am
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Pakistan [official website] on Friday agreed to review a "reconciliation ordinance" [JURIST report] that granted amnesty to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC profile] and paved the way for a power-sharing agreement between Bhutto and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf [BBC profile]. [read post]
