Staggeringly harsh convictions continue to flow through the secretive fast-track Single Justice Procedure courts ...

Advocate Hugo van der Westhuizen urged the court to consider the objective circumstances and prejudice suffered by his client ...

Four survivors of Japan’s “hostage justice” filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on March 24, contending that the Code ...

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, note with alarm the number of arrests and incidents of harassment and violence against individuals and human rights defenders exercising their right to ...

The ICC arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte is flawed both under Philippine law and international jurisprudence.

According to the Texas Health Resources website, there are two types of midwives: certified nurse-midwives and certified professional midwives, or licensed midwives. Neither are considered physicians ...

The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJ&CD) is calling on South African citizens to actively engage in the review process of the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA), as the deadline for ...

The new Code of Criminal Procedure does not sufficiently safeguard citizens’ privacy, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) said about a bill to update the outdated penal code. It allows the ...

The new laws also made the act of glorifying or praising acts of terrorism a criminal offense. But a number of incidents now appear to have been part of the elaborate criminal hoax, and not ...

This can be converted to a R6,000 fine or suspended for five years. Under section 15(2) of the Criminal Procedure Act, the courts have the discretion to order the state to pay costs incurred in ...

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On February 19, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Regulatory Initiative ...