4 h. ago Top EU court rules Polish Constitutional Tribunal is not independent

The EU's top court has ruled that Poland's Constitutional Tribunal is not "independent and impartial" due to politicized appointments by the previous conservative government

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20 h. ago US government sues US Virgin Islands and accuses officials of violating the Second Amendment

A Second Amendment clash has erupted between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands

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24 h. ago Rogano: The complex legal wrangle between Glasgow's oldest restaurant and Spain's richest man

Rogano on Glasgow’s Royal Exchange Square has been closed since March 2020, but moves are underway to settle the fate of the city’s oldest restaurant.

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25 h. ago Trump continues to dangle $2,000 checks for Americans as tariff rebates

Future of $2,000 tariff rebate checks likely lies with the Supreme Court which will soon decide if the president can impose sweeping tariffs

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27 h. ago Appeal to European Court being considered after ruling over Troubles disclosures

It comes after Government won an appeal which prevents a coroner in Northern Ireland disclosing certain sensitive material at a Troubles inquest.

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29 h. ago Government to ‘consider’ ruling in response to calls to name Stakeknife

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn said the ruling on Wednesday had ‘wide-ranging implications’

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30 h. ago Government wins Supreme Court challenge over disclosure of sensitive material

The ruling could have implications for a number of Troubles deaths involving state secrecy.

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3 d. ago Trial begins for Wisconsin judge accused of helping immigrant evade federal authorities

Trial is underway in Wisconsin for a judge accused of helping an immigrant evade federal authorities

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3 d. ago Supreme Court will hear appeal of Black death row inmate over racial bias in Mississippi jury makeup

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons

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3 d. ago The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer

The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s penJudicial opinions allowing the government to suppress speech in the name of national security rarely stand the test of time. But time has been unusually unkind to the US supreme court decision that upheld the law banning TikTok, the short-form video platform. The court issued its ruling less than a year ago, but it is already obvious that the deference the court gave to the government’s national security arguments was spectacularly misplaced. The principal effect of the court’s ruling has been to give our own government enormous power over the policies of a speech platform used by tens of millions of Americans every day – a result that is an affront to the first amendment and a national security risk in its own right.Congress passed the TikTok ban in 2023 citing concerns that the Chinese government might be able to access information about TikTok’s American users or co...

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4 d. ago Iraq's election result ratified by Supreme Federal Court as premiership remains up for grabs

Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court has ratified the final results of last month’s parliamentary elections

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4 d. ago Protesters demonstate at Girl Guides headquarters against group's new ban on transgender girls

On December 2, Girlguiding announced it would no longer accept trans members after the Supreme Court ruled in April that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

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5 d. ago Euan McColm: I could say Sandie Peggie tribunal judge Sandy Kemp was an idiot

Tribunal ruling contained bizarre and downright wrong assertions and seemed to have misinterpreted Supreme Court’s decision on gender ID

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5 d. ago US treasury lifts sanctions on Brazilian judge who presided over Bolsonaro case

Justice Alexandre de Moraes and his wife had been under Global Magnitsky sanctions after conviction of ex-presidentThe US Department of the Treasury has lifted sanctions imposed on the Brazilian supreme court justice who oversaw the conviction of the former president Jair Bolsonaro.Justice Alexandre de Moraes had been under Global Magnitsky sanctions, which target individuals accused of human rights abuses, since July. His wife Viviane Barci de Moraes – who was added the sanctions list in September – was also removed from the register on Friday. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago US removes Brazilian Supreme Court justice and his wife from sanctions list

The U.S. has removed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes from its sanctions list

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6 d. ago Peggie judgment did not take gender ruling into account properly, says academic

Professor Michael Foran said if necessary, the case could be taken to Scotland’s highest court, the Court of Session.

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6 d. ago Trans rights should be a private affair. A toxic debate does no one any favours | Simon Jenkins

The courts are a clumsy means to negotiate social relationships. Let organisations make up their own minds about inclusionTowards the end of her life, I was a friend of the writer Jan Morris. I had known her for many years and, much to my regret, had declined an offer to do her “tell all” interview when she transitioned. Jan presented herself as a woman and had undergone an operation. To me she was simply a remarkable woman. She touched, sometimes humorously, on embarrassing incidents in her life. But it never occurred to me that a legal ruling might hover over our restaurant table and block her from going to the ladies.Last April, the supreme court issued a ruling confirming that the word “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, not a person’s legal gender. This has a wide-reaching impact on how equality law is applied in practice, particularly in providing sex-based rights such as single-sex spaces. Six months later, a draft code on the ruling’s implementation was ...

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6 d. ago Trump expands Venezuela sanctions as Maduro decries new ‘era of piracy’

Six more oil supertankers added to sanctions list, as well as members of Maduro’s extended family, amid rising tensions following tanker seizureDonald Trump has exerted more pressure on Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro, expanding sanctions and issuing fresh threats to strike land targets in Venezuela, as the South American dictator accused the US president of ushering in a new “era of criminal naval piracy” in the Caribbean.Late on Thursday, the US imposed curbs on three nephews of Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, as well as six crude oil supertankers and the shipping companies linked to them. The treasury department alleged the vessels “engaged in deceptive and unsafe shipping practices and continue to provide financial resources that fuel Maduro’s corrupt narco-terrorist regime”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Sandie Peggie vows to continue legal fight after tribunal ruling

The announcement came on the same day part of the original tribunal ruling was amended, amid claims it contained a “completely made up” quote.

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7 d. ago I won’t give up my legal fight any time soon, vows Sandie Peggie

The nurse’s solicitor confirmed she will be appealing against an employment tribunal judgment which was published on Monday.

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