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Senior lawyers call on prime minister to request Indian prosecutors drop charges that would breach double jeopardy rule Four senior lawyers, including the former attorney general Dominic Grieve, have written to Keir Starmer urging him to request that Indian prosecutors drop charges against the British national Jagtar Singh Johal on the basis that continued prosecution would be in manifest breach …

Rehabilitation of young offenders is vital. But victims should not leave court wondering why they bothered The decision to review the sentences of two teenage boys convicted of raping two girls, aged 15 and 14, in separate incidents in November 2024 and January 2025, and a third boy who took part in the second rape, is correct. A knife was used to threaten the second victim, and the attacks were …

India’s Digital Future Is Moving Faster Than Its Laws Artificial Intelligence can now generate art, clone voices, imitate personalities, and create highly convincing deepfakes within seconds. Yet, many of these emerging issues are still being governed through legal interpretation of statutes enacted long before the AI era. India currently has: no dedicated AI legislation, no standalone deepfake r…

_American Journal of Bioethics_ 10 (8):33-35. 2010The target article (Sofaer and Eyal 2010) resonates with a long-simmering theme in the ethics of human subjects research, namely, that too much scrutiny and oversight of research impedes the dramat... ( direct link )

Suppose there is a family of four living in Maryland: A mother, a father, and two adult children. The parents have significant jointly-owned assets. It seems likely that the mother and two children ...

Links between Trump Organization and Ivanishvili family for Tbilisi skyscraper raise new conflict of interest concerns A Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the US-sanctioned leader of the country, according to official records. The proposed skyscraper, a joint venture between a local consortium and the Trump Organizatio…

Jay Morris denies experts’ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Meta’s Hyperion datacenter This story is from Floodlight , a non-profit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action For more than two years, John “Jay” Morris, a Louisiana state senator, helped pave the way for Meta to build one of the world’s largest datacenters, called Hyperion, in…

The Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center (RFK Human Rights) has officially opened applications for its highly competitive Project-Based Legal Fellowship for 2027. This prestigious fellowship provides rising third-year law students, judicial law clerks, and recent law graduates with an opportunity to develop and lead impactful human rights projects in partnership with one of […] The post Rob…

Ex-husband of Nicola Sturgeon admits reduced charges in court after deal with prosecutors Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National party, has pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling £400,310.65 from the party after agreeing a deal with prosecutors. Murrell, the ex-husband of the former SNP leader and first minister Nicola Sturgeon, appeared in the high court in Edinburgh…

The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a member of the World Bank Group, has officially opened applications for its prestigious 2026 Internship Program in Washington, D.C. This highly competitive international internship offers graduate students and law students a rare opportunity to gain direct exposure to global investment arbitration, international dispute sett…

NyayAI: Building an AI Legal Assistant for 1.4 Billion People — A Technical Deep Dive I'm building a startup to make Indian law accessible to every lawyer, law student, and citizen in the country. Here's the technical story of how I went from zero to a working prototype — training a foundation model from scratch, fine-tuning on 4,000 instruction pairs, and building a production-ready RAG pipeline…

Bonolo Selelo and Tsholofelo Kumile are going to court for right to wed but face fierce opposition from church groups Bonolo Selelo was at Botswana’s national museum for a Gaborone Pride event when she spotted Tsholofelo Kumile and was struck by her good looks. The two initiated a conversation and when Kumile expressed anxiety about what a tarot reading at the event might hold, Selelo thought not…

Former justice secretary Alex Chalk KC says figures Channel 4 obtained show the ‘horror show’ in the system Almost 60,000 arrest warrants were issued for defendants who skipped court in England and Wales last year, up nearly 50% since 2020 in further evidence of the “horror show” in the criminal justice system. The figures, obtained in an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches to air on Friday, …

Andrew Weissmann argues for new law to hold political liars like US president accountable for harming democracy Politicians must be held accountable if their lies damage democracy, according to a former US federal prosecutor and FBI general counsel who was pursued by Donald Trump . The US must be “as creative as possible” and introduce sweeping structural reforms if it escapes its current “mess”,…

Proposed framework hinges on a 60-day truce, reopening strait of Hormuz, and revived talks on limiting Iran nuclear programme • Middle East crisis: live updates Donald Trump has said a “memorandum of understanding” in talks to end the US-Israel war on Iran “has been largely negotiated”. Official details of the deal are scant and it remains possible that some aspects of the memo could change. Here…

A new survey finds deep concern about presidential overreach, persecution of enemies and other unchecked abuses of power. The poll shows the stakes in November.

Mussa Idris Mshanga, BBA LL.B. (Hons), LL.M., JSS Law College, Mysuru M.C. Usharani, JSS Law College, Mysuru ABSTRACT The rapid evolution of Tanzania’s digital economy has outpaced the traditional consumer protection paradigms, leaving the "e-consumer" in a state of procedural and substantive vulnerability. This article provides a critical technical analysis of the regulatory challenges inherent …

Aswathi P.M., LL.M., Department of Criminal Law, School of Excellence in Law, The Tamilnadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai. ABSTRACT This article critically examines the evolving landscape of cybercrime investigations in India, with a particular focus on recent legislative reforms and technological advancements. It underscores the growing inadequacy of conventional investigative approaches …

Satendra Yadav, Research Scholar (Law), Bundelkhand University, Jhansi Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Assistant Professor, Bundelkhand Degree College, Jhansi (U.P.) ABSTRACT The development of LGBTQ+ rights in India is one of the most notable constitutional and human rights in contemporary Indian Jurisprudence. The notion of gender identity, sexual orientation, dignity, privacy and personal autonomy has se…

Reshma L J, Govt. Law College Thiruvananthapuram The achievement of the disability movement has been to break the link between our bodies and our social situation and to focus on the real cause of disability, i.e. discrimination and prejudice. -Shakespeare INTRODUCTION People with disabilities can sometimes be referred to as change makers since their presence transforms environments. The society …