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Magistrate Patrick Chirwa has adjourned a case involving Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and wife, Mary, to June 4, 2021 to pave way for the Bushiris to seek judicial review of the case before the High Court. In his earlier ruling, Magistrate Chirwa dismissed Bushiri’s request to have his case dismissed and, also, to have the matter […]
On the legal political status of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Search for: Over the past decades, discussions on the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh’s (Artsakh’s) sovereign status have been taking place. As the main framework of the talks and political negotiations, the aspects of Artsakh’s self-determination and Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity have been seen as two contradicting ones. The invasion of Artsakh by Azerbaijan on September 27 in 2020 further escalated and complicated the conflict, despite the unilateral statements by the political leadership of Azerbaijan claiming the con...
Daily Times April 5, 2021 If Government of Azad Kashmir and Government of Pakistan do not act quick and interface with each other, in the interests of the People of Jammu and Kashmir according to UN template and other existing jurisprudence, there is danger that we may become guilty of signing off the habitat and people living on the Indian side of the cease fire line to India for ever and in perpetuity. There should be no disagreement on the fact that, “pending the holding of a plebiscite, neither India nor Pakistan can claim sovereignty over the State of Jammu and Kashmir”. (773rd meeti...
Facts The Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 was a ro-ro passenger ferry that sank in February 2006 in the Red Sea while en route from Saudi Arabia to Egypt, resulting in the death of 1,031 people and the total loss of the vessel (for further details please see "Immunity of jurisdiction defence rejected in compensation claim"). At the time of the accident, the vessel was registered under the flag of Panama and classed by the Italian company Rina, which had also issued the relevant statutory certificates on behalf of the flag state, acting as their recognised organisation. Survivors and relatives of the de...
The costly and long road to a modern state The revolutionary political changes in the Eastern Bloc at the beginning of the 1990s brought about a threefold transformation in the Republic of Slovakia: 1. From a totalitarian regime to a liberal democratic regime; 2. From a state within a federation to a nation-state; and 3. From a centrally-planned economy to a market economy. The Slovak Republic was not prepared for any of these changes. Yet in the case of the first at least, which seemed the simplest, there were sufficiently precise, internationally-defined goals along with—in some cases—m...