The National Transition Council must put an end to violent attacks against, and protect, Sub-Saharan africans in Libya

The National Transition Council must put an end to violent attacks against, and protect, Sub-Saharan africans in Libya

The ICJ today expressed its deep concern at the recurrence and persistence of attacks against Sub-Saharan African migrants in Libya.

The ICJ called upon the National Transitional Council (NTC) to take swift and decisive action to condemn and put an end to these apparently xenophobic attacks, to protect all victims and to bring to justice the perpetrators of such violations

Italy: bill increasing length of criminal trial should be rejected

Italy: bill increasing length of criminal trial should be rejected

The ICJ is urging the Members of the House of Representatives to dismiss the draft legislation on evidence in criminal trials which could exacerbate further the already dramatic delays in Italian judicial proceedings.

The legislation would eliminate the possibility for a judge to reject the admission of “superfluous” and even “manifestly superfluous” evidence, allowing the parties to a case to call an almost infinite number of witnesses, and potentially delaying the case indefinitely.  It also would make it unduly difficult to incorporate previous final rulings on the same case as prima facie evidence of the facts in the proceedings.”

Italy-length-criminal-trial-web story-2011-eng (full text in English, PDF)

Italy-length-criminal-trial-web story-2011-ita (full text in Italian, PDF)

Pakistan: ICJ concludes high-level mission to examine the independence of the judiciary since the lawyers’ movement

Pakistan: ICJ concludes high-level mission to examine the independence of the judiciary since the lawyers’ movement

The ICJ ended its six-day High-Level Mission to Pakistan today after studying the role of the judiciary and the separation of powers.

The High-Level Mission, consisting of Judge Stefan Trechsel (Chair) and Graham Leung, visited Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad between September 7-8 and September 12-15, 2011.  The Mission was a follow up to an earlier ICJ Mission which took place in 2007during the height of the constitutional crisis that was occurring at the time.

Pakistan-independence of the judiciary since the lawyers`movement-web story-2011 (full text, PDF)

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