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We are writing to urge your delegation to support efforts to ensure that the Council continues its scrutiny and pursues its work towards justice and accountability in Burundi. ....
Jonathan Goldsmith The anti-money laundering guidance issued in March 2018 by the Legal Sector Affinity Group (LSAG) – made up of the legal sector’s regulatory and representative bodies including the Law Society – ran to 156 pages. When the guidance was reissued earlier this year, it ran to 212 pages, a 35% increase. Over the same period, the Solicitors Regulation Authority – which is also a member of the LSAG – replaced its former longer handbook with its shorter Standards and Regulations, on the grounds that written guidance for solicitors needs to be shorter and less prescriptive. The French bar’s solution is likely to be encouraged internationally in the future. lawyers are not allowed to hold clients’ money, but must pay it in to the bar’s account ....
trial is violated 21/05/2021 We, the undersigned organisations, express our dismay that the Burundian Appeals Court of Ntahangwa has not yet announced a verdict in the case of human rights defender Mr. Germain Rukuki. According to legal statutes, this verdict was due within 30 days of the appeal hearing, by 24 April 2021. This undue delay adds to the litany of irregularities that have characterised the legal proceedings in this case since the arrest of Mr. Rukuki in 2017, and further compounds the violation of Mr. Rukuki’s right to a fair trial and due process. On 30 June 2020, the Supreme Court of Burundi set aside the ruling by the Appeals Court to uphold the 32-year sentence in Mr. Rukuki’s case and ordered a second appeal hearing, citing violations to his right to a fair trial. This second appeal hearing took place 8 months later on 24 March 2021 in Ngozi prison, where Mr. Rukuki is currently detained. According to the Burundian Code of Criminal Procedure, foll ....