New Delhi: Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on Saturday called for an appropriate legal framework in the criminal justice system to tackle the menace of terrorism. He favoured adoption of a counter terrorism strategy that was aimed at securing the confidence and support of the local people.
Speaking on ‘arbitration and international standards for contract [...]
A Navy judge has barred a Pentagon legal advisor from participating in the war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, saying the advisor lacks independence.
Defense lawyers say Hartmann rushed proceedings in hope of speedy convictions and sought improperly to select cases based on their potential to sway public opinion of the tribunal process.
Hartmann’s [...]
David Collins, QC, has confirmed he is taking contempt proceedings against editor Tim Pankhurst, along with Fairfax New Zealand. Papers were filed in the High Court at Wellington on Monday and served on Fairfax lawyers yesterday.
The proceedings relate to articles published in The Dominion Post and several other Fairfax publications on November 14 last year.
The [...]
David Collins, QC, has confirmed he is taking contempt proceedings against editor Tim Pankhurst, along with Fairfax New Zealand. Papers were filed in the High Court at Wellington on Monday and served on Fairfax lawyers yesterday.
The proceedings relate to articles published in The Dominion Post and several other Fairfax publications on November 14 last year.
The [...]
Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, once code-named Serpico, had been held in a Spanish jail since 2003, when he was extradited from Mexico to face charges in Spain of genocide and terrorism during the 1976-83 military dictatorship in Argentina.
Spains cabinet ruled on Friday that Cavallo could be sent back under a treaty between the two countries after [...]
A senior Justice Department official told Congress on Thursday that laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded have eliminated the technique from what is now allowed.
“The program as it is authorized today does not include waterboarding,” Steven G. Bradbury, acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, told the [...]
A senior Justice Department official told Congress on Thursday that laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded have eliminated the technique from what is now legally allowed.
“The program as it is authorized today does not include waterboarding,” Steven G. Bradbury, acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, told [...]
US officials have been reluctant to acknowledge the CIAs use of the simulated drowning technique, which human rights groups call an illegal form of torture.
The remarks by former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte in an interview with National Journal magazine come as senators are expected on Wednesday to grill Attorney General Michael Mukasey on [...]
THE Federal Government has warned it expects legal authorities
to take strong action against David Hicks if the confessed
terrorism supporter breaks the law by trying to profit from his
story.
Hicks is reportedly fielding offers from about 30 media
organisations worldwide to tell the story of his capture in
Afghanistan and his more-than-five years in Guantanamo Bay.
He was released from [...]
The CIA’s current techniques for interrogation of terrorism suspects are lawful and do not include the widely-condemned simulated drowning method known as waterboarding, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress.
Mukasey declined, however, in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy on the eve of testimony before the panel, to say whether he considered [...]
