Decree-Law No. 9 of 2025 has been issued, repealing Article 153 of the Penal Code, which was originally enacted under Law No.

Panaji: Prosecutions must not be launched to stifle agitations that are part of the democratic process, as long as people do ...

The Supreme Court has repeatedly interpreted Article 21 (Right to Life) to include the right to live with dignity, which extends to prisoners as well. Articles 14, 15, 17, and 23 also provide ...

House of Reps has said that a bill to amend Nigeria’s Penal and Criminal Codes, aiming to abolish or reduce the use of the ...

Nigerian Christian leaders are seeking clemency for a Christian farmer given the death sentence for killing a Fulani herdsman ...

The authors write "The first two months of the Trump Administration have brought deep and widespread changes to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Those changes will likely affect most aspects of the ...

A penal law-era piece of British legislation banning the use of Irish in courts has been repealed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn. The Administration of Justice ...

But it required the repeal of a penal law from 1737 which made it "a criminal offence to use any language other than English" in court. According to the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), Secretary of ...

The case involved a New York law that allowed people to sue corporate ... under the full faith and credit clause, to enforce penal judgments. But the justices made clear that relatively few ...

Under HB 3817, Texans could be charged with "gender identity fraud" for identifying as a sex different from the one they were ...

While Malaysia's existing legal framework – including the Penal Code, Sedition Act, and Malaysian Communications and ...

Irish language campaigners had been calling for the repeal of the 1737 penal law, which sets out a fine of £20 handed out for languages being used in UK courts outside of English - close to £ ...