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The Constitutional Court (AYM) of Turkey ruled on Monday that the 11-day solitary confinement sentence given to Nihat Ekmez, a prisoner at Izmir No. The individual application system allows anyone in Turkey to file a complaint with the Constitutional Court if they believe their rights and freedoms have been violated.
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Amnesty International Australia issued a statement on Tuesday denouncing the Australian federal government’s newly proposed bill reintroducing punitive measures targeting a group of people released from immigration detention emphasizing that it undermines the recent High Court decision and breaches Australia’s international obligations.
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The UK High Courtruled Friday that the Government’s climate strategy is inadequate and therefore violates the UK Climate Change Act 2008. The ruling comes nearly two years after a previous High Court judgment ordered the Government to strengthen its net zero strategy to bring it in line with the Climate Change Act.
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The Irish High Courtruled Friday that a decision made by the country’s Minister for Justice in 2020 to declare the UK a “safe country” to send asylum seekers back to during processing was “unlawful as a matter of EU law.” The UK has yet to respond to the ruling.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday in favor of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation’s dispute with the state of Idaho regarding the tribe’s hunting rights on US land. Sung noted that the court must interpret treaties in the context that the parties would naturally understand.
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Tunisia’s Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) rejected on Monday a decision of the country’s Administrative Court reinstating three candidates for its presidential election on October 6. The post Tunisia electoral commission rejects courtruling reinstating 3 presidential candidates appeared first on JURIST - News.
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The UK Supreme Court held Thursday that Surrey’s planning authorities acted unlawfully when granting planning permission for an oil well development in 2019. The courtruled that the authorities should have considered certain environmental impacts when making the decision.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that Azerbaijan violated the freedom of expression of a lawyer that was disbarred for filing a corruption complaint against the director of a legal consultancy. Regarding this, the courtruled that the applicant’s complaint was not a baseless accusation.
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Minnesota law requiring handgun carry permit applicants to be at least 21 years of age is unconstitutional. Regarding US history, the court rejected the state’s argument that 18 to 20-year-olds were denied the right to bear arms under common law.
In a slip opinion on Friday, the US Supreme Court declared that a federal sentencing law gives district courts discretion to impose either concurrent or consecutive sentences for certain drug-related crimes. The case is an appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The Courtruled that 18 U.S.C. §
The UK’s High Cout of Justice on Tuesday ruled that recent amendments to protest laws enacted by the Secretary of State were unlawful. The court’s judgment comes as a result of a legal challenge to the amendments brought by the National Council of Civil Liberties.
The German Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled a law allowing double jeopardy in criminal cases where new evidence was available was unconstitutional. However, the court found the 2021 reform conflicted with Article 103 of the Basic Law. ” The decision centered on Section 362 of the German Criminal Code.
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