Pfizer reaches settlement with Nigeria state in drug testing lawsuit
Drug maker Pfizer reached a settlement Friday with the Nigerian state of Kano in a lawsuit over allegedly illegal clinical trials the company conducted in Nigeria in 1996. The national government and the state of Kano filed...
Cambodia court orders Khmer Rouge lawyers to remove documents from website
Defense lawyers for former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary , on trial for crimes against humanity , have been ordered to remove documents relating to their case...
A panel of judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled Wednesday that there was no valid immunity deal between war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic [ICTY materials; ICTY backgrounder; JURIST news...
Pfizer hopes for November settlement with 1996 Nigerian drug trial plaintiffs
Officials from Nigeria and from US pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Monday that they hope to reach a settlement agreement by the end of next month over allegedly illegal clinical trials conducted in Nigeria by the drug company...
Europe court rules in favor of broad database copy protection
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has broadly interpreted rules protecting the content of databases from copying, regardless of how the information is extracted from its source. The court was considering a lawsuit filed...
Karadzic seeks ICTY information on alleged immunity deal with US
Former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has requested, in a motion released Monday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ,...
South Africa High Court invalidates Zuma corruption prosecution
A judge in South Africa's Pietermaritzburg High Court ruled Friday that an earlier decision to prosecute politician Jacob Zuma on corruption charges was procedurally invalid because Zuma was not given the chance...
An Indonesian court Tuesday acquitted American Richard Ness , the regional chief executive of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation , and Newmont's local subsidiary of criminal pollution charges . Ness and Newmont were accused...
Federal appeals court decision upholding spying convictions draws Cuba fire
A US federal appeals court opinion upholding the convictions of five accused Cuban spies prompted condemnation from the Cuban government Thursday, who called the decision political and unfair. The US Court of Appeals for the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Robbie Sabel of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, Israel, says that many of the international law issues in the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah come down to matters of common sense... As...
