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18 Jul 2007, 8:21 am
[JURIST] Thailand's interim-government [JURIST report] lifted a ban on the registration of new political parties Wednesday, after the military-appointed National Legislative Assembly (NLA) [Wikipedia backgrounder] approved legislation formally ending the ban instituted by the military after its September 2006 coup [JURIST report]. [read post]
24 Feb 2004, 4:39 pm
A US District Court judge Tuesday allowed the government to continue with a claim that tobacco companies conspired to entice children to smoke through aggressive marketing techniques. [read post]
12 Feb 2012, 7:14 pm
"“The government is taking IP dead seriously,” says Danny Friedmann, an IP rights consultant in China and founder of the popular blog IP Dragon. [read post]
3 Sep 2012, 12:56 am
The Telegraph reports “Insolvency Service reform scrapped - the Government has scrapped plans to reform the process that leads to rogue directors being struck off. [read post]
23 Mar 2022, 8:01 am
In this episode of our Beyond Sanctions series, David Harris and Katie Stephen, Co-Heads of our Contentious Financial Services Group in London, discuss their sanctions and governance insights from recent work, as well as some practical takeaways for firms from these. [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 12:55 pm
[JURIST] Senior managers in the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians (OST) [official website] allegedly violated ethics rules by maintaining an improper relationship with an accounting firm that won more than $6.5 million in contract work related to Indian trust funds [JURIST news archive] held by the government, according to a US Department of the Interior (DOI) [official website] [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 11:21 am
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released documents governing intelligence community dissemination of information regarding members of Congress and congressional staff, known as the "Gates Procedures" after former Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates. [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 4:15 am
[JURIST] Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) [official website] Thursday called for the resignation of Iraq Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani in response to Shahristani's remarks that oil contracts signed by the KRG with several global companies are illegal. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 4:38 am
During the Bush administration, the US government barred professors Tariq Ramadan [academic profile; JURIST news archive] of Oxford University and Adam Habib [academic profile] of the [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 7:16 pm
A court panel has outlined a schedule for US government lawyers and counsel for the prisoners to voice their opinions about the impact of the [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 6:42 am
Jones, Case No. 10-1259, that the government's attachment of a GPS device to a vehicle and its subsequent monitoring of the vehicle's movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 8:14 am
On Thursday, the Justice Department announced charges against a two Chinese nationals, whom the department alleges are connected with the China-based hacking group known by the government as Advanced Persistent Threat 10 (APT10). [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 2:54 pm
[JURIST] The Communist Party of Nepal - Maoists (CPN-M) [party website] announced Tuesday that it is vacating the interim government and boycotting future elections until its demands for parliament to immediately declare the country a federal democratic republic were met. [read post]
9 Mar 2005, 12:42 am
[JURIST] UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke offered additional concessions on the British government's proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill [UK Parliament text] Wednesday after the legislation came back from the upper chamber House of Lords riddled with amendments designed to protect traditional civil liberties [UK Parliament text] against potentially-arbitrary state action. [read post]
25 Apr 2007, 8:43 pm
The Provincial Government intends to implement the Premier's Council on Aging and Seniors' Issues recommendation to amend the Human Rights Code to to extend the prohibition against discrimination in employment based on age to those aged 65 and over. [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 6:43 pm
[JURIST] The chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [court website] granted a government motion [order, PDF] Friday to extend from August 30 to September 30 its deadline to file the first fifty factual returns in the habeas corpus [JURIST news archive] appeals of more than two hundred Guantanamo [JURIST news archive] detainees. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 12:48 pm
[JURIST] Officials from the UK Ministry of Justice [official website] announced Friday that the government will award compensation to Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian-born UK man wrongfully detained in the wake of the 9/11 attacks [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 10:16 am
[JURIST] Canada's minority Conservative Party [party website] government introduced legislation Friday that would require Muslim women wearing a veil to show their faces before voting. [read post]
25 May 2008, 11:46 am
[JURIST] The leaders of Pakistan's governing Pakistan People's Party [party website] presented an anticipated [JURIST report] 62-point constitutional amendment package at a news conference Saturday, saying it would be presented to the country's parliament by the end of June. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 1:23 am
[JURIST] El Salvador government officials agreed on Friday to a state investigation into the death of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero [BBC backgrounder], shot and killed in 1980. [read post]
