- Australian court imposes generalized news blackout on bribery case
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 WikiLeaks has revealed the existence of a blanket gagging order applying to all citizens and news media throughout Australia.
- Banned Books
Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- Canadian Court to the Entire World: No Links For You!
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Google to remove entire domains from its search results a decision that could have enormous global implications on free expression. This is the latest of several instances of courts claiming dangerous jurisdictional overreach, where they have applied local laws to remove content on the Internet.
- Canadian lawyers and Chevron's court battle over environmental damage in Ecuador
Iler, Kirsten Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A storm of controversy erupted amongst Canadian lawyers when the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) decided to intervene in Chevron's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appeal is part of Chevron's battle against Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples who seek to enforce a massive court judgment against the company for environmental damage in Ecuador.
- Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth.
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Extraordinary Violence at 500 Pearl Street
The Sentencing of Jeremy Hammond Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 On Friday, November 15, 2013, extreme violence with malicious intent was meted out by Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska in the sentencing phase of 28 year old hacktivist Jeremy Hammond before a chamber packed with friends, family, supporters and others.
- First Look Media Publishes Warrant 'Canary,' Releases Software for Managing Canaries
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Today The Intercepts parent company, First Look Media, published a warrant "canary" -- a statement that attempts to assure readers that the company has not been compelled to comply with a secret government order like a National Security Letter. In addition to this, First Look is publishing AutoCanary: simple, free, open-source software to easily create and manage warrant canaries.
- The Great Conspiracy Trial
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- Groups Call for Complete Restoration of Court Challenges Program
News Release June 19, 2008 Resource Type: Article Published: 2008
- IFJ Condemns Sentences Given to Al Jazeera English Journalists
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined the world community to condemn todays verdict by a Cairo court in the case involving journalists from Al Jazeera English
- Life Sentence
Stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges) Resource Type: Book Published: 2016 Through an examination of notable trials she has covered, Chrisitie Blatchford makes the case that Canada's judicial system is out of control and often inept. Judges, she says, are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled, while lawyers are often self-satisfied and contemptuous of anyone who is not a member of the club.
- Not guilty means not guilty
Resource Type: Article Published: 1980 The gay news magazine, The Body Politic, is organizing a public campaign to make Attorney General Roy McMurtry withdraw an appeal against the magazine's acquittal on obscenity charges.
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Essays looking at American political ideology.
- Politically-orchestrated trial ends in long jail terms
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 In a sign of the Egyptian regimes increasingly totalitarian nature, a Cairo court today passed sentences ranging from seven to ten years in prison on Al-Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Adel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed.
- Rachel Corrie's Death is Not Merely "Regrettable Accident"
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 IJV condemns Israeli court decision absolving army of responsibility in death of Rachel Corrie.
- Trial
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- The Trial of Steven Truscott
Resource Type: Book Published: 1966 LeBourdais makes the case for the innocence of Steven Truscott, a 14-year-fold boy convicted, and sentenced to death, for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in southwestern Ontario.
- US has a new tool to control the masses
No one should want the state to have power to strip your clothes off. And yet that's what is happening, thanks to the supreme court Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Denouncing a new US Supreme court ruling that allows police to strip search any person who is placed under arrest for any offence at any time. Wolf says this state sanctioned sexual humiliation is a troubling anti-democratic development in a nation that is quickly expanding police powers.
- Very Mention of Snowden's Name Makes Prosecutors Tremble
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has become such a powerful symbol of government overreach that federal prosecutors in a terror case in Chicago are asking the judge to forbid defense attorneys from even mentioning his name during trial, for fear that it would lead the jury to disregard their evidence.
- Western hypocrisy over convictions in Russia of Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Shapinov advocates against the Western disregard for hundreds of criminal cases against oppositionists in Ukraine.
- WikiLeaks, Corruption and the Super Injunction
Suppression and Information Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 In Australia, whose institutions still pride themselves on an antiquated obsession with aspects of English gagging, suppression orders do retain a certain mystique. They certainly do in the Australian state of Victoria, which is said to throw suppression orders around like confetti.
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