Kenya High Court Rejects Plea To Decriminalize Homosexuality25 May 2019 7:59 AM GMTThe High Court of Kenya has dismissed a plea challenging provisions in Kenya's Penal Code similar to Section 377 IPC which criminalizes private consensual sexual conduct between adult persons of...
Malaysia Gets Its First Woman Chief Justice- Tengku Maimun3 May 2019 6:48 AM GMTDatuk Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, who was serving as the Federal Judge has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Malaysia.She is the first woman to become the Chief Justice of Malaysia.The Federal Court...
The Supreme Court of Myanmar has dismissed the appeals of two Journalists sentenced to seven years in jail for violating the Official Secrets Act, the Reuters reported. The reporters working...
The Supreme Court of Nepal has stayed the Government order banning popular mobile game Player Unknown's Battleground (PUBG), the Himalayan Times reports.On the basis of Kathmandu District Court...
No juvenile offender will receive 'moderate corporal punishment' in Zimbabwe as its Constitutional Court has held that such punishments are unconstitutional. A nine judge bench of the...
The Supreme Court of Jamaica has extensively followed Justice DY Chandrachud's dissenting opinion in Aadhaar case to declare that its National Identification and Registration Act is...
Last two days witnessed two significant rulings in the matters of women's reproductive rights by Apex judicial bodies of two countries viz. South Korea and Australia.The Constitutional Court of...
![Vedanta Can Be Sued In UK For Pollution By Its Subsidiary In Zambia : UK SC [Read Judgment]](https://www.livelaw.in/h-upload/2019/04/11/500x300_359812-vedanta.jpg "Vedanta Can Be Sued In UK For Pollution By Its Subsidiary In Zambia : UK SC [Read Judgment]")
The United Kingdom Supreme Court has ruled that English Courts have jurisdiction to try the class action suit brought by Zambian citizens for damages against Vedanta Ltd for toxic emissions by its...
A Court in United States has allowed the plea of three girl students of a school in North Carolina against 'discriminatory' Uniform policy, requiring them to wear only 'skirts, skorts, or...
The Islamabad High Court, while dealing with a petition of two girls, observed that it is the duty of Pakistan Government to dispel any impression regarding the alleged forced conversions. Chief...
Neomi Jehangir Rao, an Indian American Lawyer, has been appointed as United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was nominated by the Senate to the post previously ...
In a major relief for farmers and fishermen of Gujarat, the Supreme Court of the United States has held that the International Finance Corporation is not absolutely immune from suit filed against...
Abu Dhabi has included Hindi as the third official court language, alongside Arabic and English, in an attempt to improve access to justice.Indians are the largest expatriate community in the UAE...
Ms. Suman Pawan Bodani has become the first Hindu woman to be appointed as a civil judge in Pakistan. She secured 54th rank in the merit list and will serve in her native district of...
Likening the population growth in the country to a 'ticking bomb', the Supreme Court of Pakistan has called upon policymakers, legislators, care providers, civil society activists and religious...
A Supreme Court judge of Pakistan, in an order passed in a case, expressed his strong disagreement with the reconstitution of a bench by the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP). Interestingly, this...
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In a landmark decision, the Singapore High Court on Monday allowed a homosexual man to adopt his biological son born through surrogacy.The judgment was delivered by a bench comprising Chief Justice...
