On Wednesday 5^th April the Court will hand-down judgment in R (on the application of Pearce and others) v Parole Board for England and Wales [2023] UKSC 13. The court will determine two questions: (i) When the Parole Board is deciding whether or not to direct the release of a prisoner on license, can it only take into account accusations if they are proved on the balance of probabilities? (ii) Does the Parole Board’s “Guidance on Allegations” misstate the law on this issue? The hand-down will take place at 9:45am in Courtroom 1.

The following Supreme Court judgments remain

TEL AVIV – Tens of thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against a controversial plan to revamp the country’s legal system, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suspension of the changes earlier in the week.

The demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial hub on the Mediterranean, for the 13th weekly demonstration, raising Israeli flags and banners against what they said were plans to weaken the Supreme Court. Several smaller rallies took place in other towns and cities.

The protests have been going on since Netanyahu’s government, the most right-wing in the country’s history, introduced the changes.

But on Monday, Netanyahu

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday called the indictment of former President Trump “un-American” and said the state would not assist in any extradition request.

“The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American,” DeSantis, who is seen as Trump’s top rival in a potential 2024 GOP primary, tweeted after news of the indictment broke.

“The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felony and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent,” DeSantis

(Adds comments from Mercado Libre, Justice Minister)

By Anthony Boadle

BRASILIA, March 28 (Reuters) –

Meta Platforms Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google appeared before Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday to defend a law that says internet companies are not responsible for content that users post unless the companies are subject to a court order.

The companies are appealing a 2017 lawsuit by a Brazilian woman who wanted Facebook to remove a profile and sued the company for compensation.

If upheld, their appeals could establish jurisprudence for future cases concerning liability for internet content, at a time when social media companies

On Wednesday 29^th and Thursday 30th^th march the Court will hear the case of Jalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another, on appeal from [2021] EWCA 63. This case concerns the Bonga oil field, 120km off the coast of Nigeria, where Shell extracts oil using a mobile oil rig. On 20 December 2011, there was a leak from one of the flexible flowlines between the rig and mooring buoy while oil was being transferred onto a ship. The spill contained at least 40,000 barrels and was one of the largest spills in Nigerian

In this post, David McKie and Dany Bitar, partners and associates respectively in the litigation team at CMS, preview the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in JTI POLSKA Sp. Zoo and Ors v Jakubowski and Ors.

Overview

This leapfrog appeal was heard by the Supreme Court on 28 February 2023. The case concerns whether a carrier is liable under the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road 1956 (“CMR”) for approximately £500,000 in excise duty payable by the owners of a cargo of cigarettes, because of a partial theft of the

by: ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, Associated Press

Posted: Mar 26, 2023 / 07:45 PM EDT

Updated: Mar 26, 2023 / 07:45 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Some parts of Twitter’s source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online, the social media company said in a legal filing on Sunday.

According to the legal document, filed with the US District Court of the Northern District of California, Twitter had asked GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development, to take down the code where it was posted. The platform complied and said the