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    Jurist India Supreme Court rules pre-litigation mediation mandatory for commercial suits

    In a landmark decision, India’s Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that pre-litigation mediation is mandatory for all commercial suits initiated after India’s Commercial Courts Act of 2015. The court held that Section 12A of the 2015 Act, the enabling provision for pre-litigation mediation, is...
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    Jurist Shanghai court sentences Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua to 13 years in prison

    A Shanghai court has sentenced Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua to 13 years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of 6.5 million yuan ($1.2 million CAD) on charges of the illegal absorption of public deposits, breach of trust in the use of entrusted property, illegal use of funds, and...
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    Jurist HRW publishes list of Russia free speech suppression instances in wake of Ukraine war

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday published a catalog of citizen actions that have triggered criminal charges and administrative penalties in Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly cracked down on free speech rights; in the first few weeks following the start of the...
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    Jurist UN human rights office expresses concern over illegal Russian trial of Ukrainian POWs

    The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Tuesday denounced plans by Russian-backed authorities to allegedly try Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in the port city of Mariupol. The OHCHR believes that the trials may begin within days and that, according to information...
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    Jurist Kenya presidential candidate challenges election results in Supreme Court

    Kenyan Presidential candidate and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga filed a petition Monday with the Kenyan Supreme Court challenging the country’s 2022 presidential election results. Odinga’s challenge follows the Kenyan election regulator’s announcement last week that the current Deputy...
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    Jurist Singapore to decriminalize gay sex

    Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Sunday announced the government’s plans to decriminalize sex between men, saying this was “the right thing to do and something that most Singaporeans will now accept.” Specifically, Lee announced the repeal of Section 377A, which provides: While some...
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    Jurist Mexico police arrest former AG after release of report rejecting his findings into 2014 student disappearance

    Mexican police have arrested the country’s former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam on charges of enforced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice. These charges relate to a 2015 investigation led by Murillo Karam into the 2014 disappearance of 43 male students of a teachers’...
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    Jurist Canadian prime minister nominates first indigenous justice to the Supreme Court

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the nomination of Ontario Superior Court of Justice Judge Michelle O’Bonsawin, to the nation’s highest court on Friday. O’Bonsawin, an Abenaki member of the Odanak First Nation, will be the first indigenous justice at the Supreme Court. This...
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    Jurist UK privacy campaigner finds police disproportionately using stop and search powers to target protesters

    UK privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch Thursday reported that police are disproportionately using existing stop and search powers to target protesters. This comes as the Government is planning even more protest crackdowns through the Public Order Bill, the human rights group said on...
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    Jurist UN report concludes that forced labour claims in China’s Xinjiang are credible

    United Nations Special Rapporteur on slavery Tomoya Obokata released a report Tuesday on contemporary forms of slavery where he found that it was “reasonable to conclude” that forced labor “among Uygur, Kazakh and other ethnic minorities in sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing” is...
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