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The Western Cape legal fraternity’s hopes of seeing the back of Judge President John Hlophe appear to have been dashed after it emerged this week that the Jackie Selebi trial judge, Meyer Joffe, is the only contender for the South African Judicial Institute’s...
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South Korea's Constitutional Court struck down a decades-old law on Thursday that had punished men for making false promises of marriage to engage in sexual relations with women. The nine-member court ruled in a 6-3 verdict that the law infringed upon...
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The chairman of the school's governing body, Barend Greyling, said in an affidavit handed to the Constitutional Court, that English-speaking pupils would be allowed to attend the school. But this would be on condition that English pupils may only use...
Tags: constitution court, speaking pupils, Constitutional Court, rskool ermelo, South Africa, Cape Town
Russia ’s Constitutional Court extended the country’s moratorium on the death penalty on Thursday, though it stopped short of fully abolishing capital punishment. In a statement , the Constitutional Court argued that permitting capital punishment would...
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Evgeny Tanchev has been elected Monday to the position of Chair of Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court (CC), with a majority vote of the Court members. Tanchev received 8 of the 12 votes cast by the CC members in a secret ballot on Monday.
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In conversations released at the Constitutional Court, prominent members of the Attorney General's office and police force were linked to bribes involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, Mercedes Benz cars, and a plot to frame two members of the Corruption...
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Kuwaitis from different walks of life welcomed a historic decision ruled by the Constitutional Court yesterday, the country's highest tribunal panel, to grant Kuwaiti women the right to obtain a passport without obtaining the prior consent of their parents,...
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday he was ready to liberalize electoral laws, sending a new signal that the ex-Soviet nation was seeking better relations with the West. As ties with Belarus's ally Russia sour, Lukashenko has sought...
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The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the Mpumalanga education department acted unlawfully when it forced a school to change its language policy. But the Constitutional Court also ordered the school governing body of Hoërskool Ermelo to review...
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Italy agrees with Berlusconi losing immunity Most Italians agree with a court decision to strip Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of immunity from prosecution but only a minority want to cut short his term and hold early elections, according to new polls...
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