Legal institutions

Hungary

Hundreds call for Orbán resignation over child sex abuse pardon

The Hungarian leader is facing the greatest political crisis of his 14-year premiership.

15/02/2024

United Kingdom

Baby Indi dies in UK after long legal battle over life support

Indi Gregory suffered from a rare genetic condition, and a legal battle involving her parents, British health officials and the Italian government

13/11/2023

World News

Euroviews. Judges are on the frontline of the pushback against AI harms

While we strive to develop new laws to govern AI itself, it is imperative that we train judges, prosecutors and public servants so that they can protect us from AI-related harms right now, Tawfik Jelassi writes.

21/09/2023

No Comment

WATCH: Israelis protest for 32nd week against judicial overhaul plan

Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday in the latest protest against the hard-right government's controversial judicial reform plans that opponents see as threat to democracy.

13/08/2023

Tech News

A mock trial in the US is testing out hologram witnesses

Legal experts say the technology could be a “game-changer” if it can be used to replace low-quality video link testimonies.

14/06/2023

Work

Justice in the metaverse: Can AI and tech speed up court proceedings?

Victoria Quiñones is bringing Colombia’s justice system into the age of artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse.

27/04/2023

Russia

Russian father convicted for criticising the war arrested in Belarus

A Russian court on Tuesday convicted a single father over social media posts criticising the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to two years in prison - a case brought to the attention of authorities by his daughter’s drawings against the invasion at school.

28/03/2023

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Watch: Israeli police use water cannon during anti-government protest

Israeli Police used water cannons on protesters opposing the government’s judicial overhaul who were blocking a main highway in Tel Aviv over the weekend.

27/03/2023

United Kingdom

Boy at heart of UK court battle dies after life support ends

Both British and European courts had refused to intervene in the case of the 12-year-old boy, who had been in a coma for four months.

06/08/2022

Europe News

The German Constitutional Court has blocked the EU's recovery fund. What happens now?

In a surprising decision, the court prevented the German President from signing off the ratification of the legal text that would enable the Commission to raise funds on the capital markets.

30/03/2021

Europe News

Rule of law: EU Parliament wants violators to be stripped off funds

Lawmakers go after Hungary, Poland, Romania and the likes

17/01/2019

Poland

Poland’s top judge turns up for work defying retirement order

Malgorzata Gersdorf says she wants to ‘protect the rule of law’ against government reforms that critics including the EU say undermine judicial independence.

04/07/2018

World News

GDPR explained: what the EU’s major new data protection rules mean for

New data protection rules come into force on May 25. They have been billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws since the birth of the web.

22/05/2018

Romania

Romanian judges protest over government-backed legal reforms

Hundreds stood on the steps of Bucharest's main courts to condemn legal changes which they say could hamper anti-corruption cases

18/12/2017

United Kingdom

UK says 'no link' between moves to pay Iran debt and Zaghari-Ratcliffe case

UK denies any link between action to pay debt to Iran and efforts to secure the release of a British-Iranian national.

16/11/2017

United Kingdom

Theresa May denies Brexit U-turn over end of EU court's jurisdiction

The UK government's new position paper says 'direct jurisdiction' of the European Court of Justice will end with Brexit.

23/08/2017

Hungary

No nationality: Europe is urged to stop locking up the stateless

With an estimated ten million people worldwide thought to be stateless, Europe is being urged to end arbitrary detentions and protect those with nowhere to call…

04/05/2017

Economy

UK High Court dismisses EEA Brexit legal challenge

The UK High Court dismissed a Brexit legal challenge to force parliament to specify if leaving the EU also means leaving the European Economic Area

03/02/2017

France

Abdeslam's lawyer threatens legal action against Paris Prosecutor

Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins quoted the suspect as saying he 'had wanted to blow himself up at the Stade de France' but had 'backed out'. The suspect's lawyer claimed this was a 'breach of confide

20/03/2016

Ireland

Ireland makes legal gender equality history

13/02/2015