Judgement
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Women on Death Row in Singapore: how gender discriminations create a ‘double punishment’
Women on death row in Singapore face a stark reality of isolation, harassment and intimidation. Singapore’s enthusiastic application of the…
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‘Stateless’ Shamima Begum would face death in Bangladesh, court hears
Shamima Begum would face the death penalty if sent to Bangladesh, her parents’ country of origin, and is now effectively…
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EU top court: Employers banning religious signs at work is not discrimination
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Thursday that internal legislation by an employer prohibiting the visible wearing of all…
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Five Hong Kong speech therapists jailed for conspiracy to ‘brainwash’ children with cartoons
Five Hong Kong speech therapists were sentenced to 19 months in jail for conspiracy to publish seditious children’s books, featuring…
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What Google v Defteros means for defamation law
In ruling that Google was not the publisher of defamatory material pertaining to an article about a Melbourne lawyer, the…
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How to Message Against Far-Right Populism
The Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade brought further evidence of what many Americans know to be true: The system is…
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Labor drops Coalition bid to overturn high court ruling that Indigenous Australians can’t be aliens
The Albanese government has abandoned a controversial high court case that sought to restore the commonwealth’s power to deport Aboriginal…
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‘Condemning everyone alive’: outrage at US supreme court climate ruling
Amid heat records being shattered across the world and historic wildfires raging across the west, climate activists and policymakers working to aggressively curb greenhouse…
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UK court approves extradition of Julian Assange to US
Mr Assange was last month denied permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against moves to extradite him to…
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Immigration case raises concerns over High Court politicisation
A High Court decision on citizenship, seen as being as important as Mabo, is being recontested in what some experts…
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Dam fight pits city water against fish habitat
(CN) — Santa Maria is a modestly sized town in south San Luis Obispo County known for its resplendent wineries…
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Australian government has no duty of care to protect children from climate harm, court rules
A legal decision finding the Australian government owes the country’s children protection from harm caused by climate change has been…
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Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day in largest mass execution in decades
The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported there in all of 2021 and the 27 in 2020. ABC News Offences…
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ICJ orders Uganda to pay $325m for DR Congo occupation
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled Uganda had violated international norms as an occupying force between 1998 and 2003.…
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How Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes went from the cover of Forbes to being found guilty on charges of fraud
And Elizabeth Holmes was confident. Jordan Hayne with wires ABC News It was an apparently unshakable belief in her product…
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Ghislaine Maxwell is guilty, but the toxic fallout from Jeffrey Epstein’s life is far from over
The decisions handed down in a Manhattan courtroom could also herald the start of a new chapter in the #MeToo…
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