News
News
Source: Public Interest Law Alliance
Source: Russian Legal Information Agency
Scottish bail conditions breach human rights to liberty, rules Scottish court, by Andrew Tickell
13.02.2012
Amongst Scots lawyers, few judicial observations are more notorious than those uttered by Lord Cranworth in the House of Lords in Bartonshill Coal Co v Reid in 1858.
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, has carried out his first ever visit to the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova.
Minister of Justice Sadullah Ergin on Wednesday announced a new judicial reform package that, among many other things, aims to make it difficult for courts to issue detention orders for suspects before trial.
Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg stated in İstanbul on Friday that he was “shocked” by the court’s decision to acquit all 19 suspects of membership in a terrorist organization in the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Only one suspect received a life sentence.
With Turkey at the center of criticism regarding pretrial detention in recent months, a report by an international agency has revealed that some EU countries have a poor record of pretrial detention and in many countries the percentage of the those imprisoned pending trial is very high.
Governments needing a facelift often attempt to curtail jury trial. Quick-fix supermarket justice must be resisted.
Formalisation of applications for criminal legal aid and some random means-testing are likely to follow the taking over of the administration of criminal legal aid by the Legal Aid Board, according to its chief executive.
Millionaire criminal suspects should not be entitled to legal aid to stop tens of millions of pounds being wasted, the former Director of Public Prosecutions said.