Pakistan’s creation of a separate Federal Constitutional Court has so far failed to produce the sharp reduction in top-court congestion promised by supporters of the reform. Nearly 56,000 cases remain…
A lawyer implicated in an alleged large-scale insurance fraud operation following Hurricane Ida appears set to change his plea in a US federal case, placing professional ethics and criminal liability…
A US federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully in directing FEMA toward a 50 per cent workforce reduction, delivering a significant judicial check on executive control…
A Freedom of Information dispute concerning Peter Obi’s university records has reached the Federal High Court in Abuja after Labour Party chieftain Abayomi Arabambi sued the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.…
The legal consequences of Diezani Alison-Madueke’s acquittal in Britain are generating fresh debate in Nigeria, with civil society organisations arguing that the UK verdict should not automatically determine separate Nigerian…
A police officer has been disarmed and detained after a seven-year-old boy was injured during a stop-and-search operation in Uyo, placing police use of force and operational accountability under renewed…
Kwara State law officers have renewed their demand for salaries and allowances comparable to those received by magistrates, reopening an important debate about the status and welfare of government lawyers.…
Fresh pressure is mounting for another review of Nigeria’s Cybercrimes Act as a rights organisation urges Attorney-General of the Federation Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, to address concerns surrounding Section 24. The…
Thirteen years after a federal court found systematic racial profiling during immigration patrols in Arizona, a judge has refused to end judicial supervision of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. The…
A little-used national-security court created three decades ago has been activated for the first time, resulting in the deportation of an Afghan woman from the United States. The unprecedented proceeding…
