Israel: Changes for Selection of Judges and Justices to Be Implemented in...
On March 27, 2025, the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) adopted the Basic Law: the Judicature (Amendment No. 4). The amendment changes the membership of the committee that selects judges under the Basic...
View ArticleItaly: Voters to Decide on Judicial Reform in Upcoming Popular Referendum
On March 22-23, 2026, Italy will hold a popular referendum on a proposed constitutional law containing sweeping changes to the organization of the Italian judiciary. (No. 1353-B, or the “Nordio-Meloni...
View ArticleItaly: New Justice Reform Measures Address Shortage of Civil Judges
On, September 8, 2025, a new law took effect in Italy designed to meet the need for civil magistrates throughout the country. The law, Decree Law No. 117 of August 8, 2025 (D.L No. 117), authorizes...
View ArticleRussian Federation: Higher Court Confirms Validity of Ruling Written by AI
On September 25, 2025, a regional federal court in the southern Russian province of Krasnodar declined to change a sentence ordered by a city court that was being challenged because it contained text...
View ArticleIsrael: Knesset Adopts Controversial Reform on Appointing Judges
On March 26, 2025, Israel’s parliament approved a law to overhaul the judicial appointment process. The law, the Basic Law: the Judiciary (Amendment No. 4), will increase political influence in...
View ArticleNetherlands: New Code of Criminal Procedure Under Consideration by Legislature
On March 20, 2024, the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security announced that a new Code of Criminal Procedure (Wetboek van Strafvordering, WvSv) would come into effect on April 1, 2029, if the...
View ArticleBulgaria: New Constitutional Amendments Introduce Judicial Reform and Abolish...
On December 20, 2023, the National Assembly (parliament) of Bulgaria adopted the Law on Amendments and Additions to the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria. This law introduces changes to the...
View ArticleIsrael: Legislation Abolishes Reasonableness as a Standard for Judicial...
On July 24, 2023, the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) adopted Basic Law: the Judiciary (Amendment No. 3). Basic laws are considered chapters in Israel’s future constitution. The amendment constitutes one...
View ArticleMorocco: New Draft Law on the Higher Institute for the Judiciary Approved
On April 13, 2023, Morocco’s Government Council, chaired by the Head of Government, approved Draft Law No. 37.22 on the Higher Institute for the Judiciary, which is intended to review the judiciary’s...
View ArticlePakistan: Supreme Court Temporarily Bars Government from Enforcing Supreme...
On April 13, 2023, the Supreme Court of Pakistan issued an interim order barring the government from enforcing the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act, 2023.The original bill was approved by the...
View ArticleIsrael: Bill to Ensure Government Control over Selection of Judges Passes...
On March 27, 2023, before Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced a temporary delay in promoting government-proposed legal reforms, the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee of the Knesset...
View ArticleGuyana: Piracy Convictions Lead to Death Sentence
On January 31, 2023, Guyana Supreme Court of the Judicature Justice Navindra Singh sentenced two men to death for masterminding a pirate attack on fishermen in the Berbice region close to the...
View ArticleItaly: Amendments to the Tax Justice System Adopted
On September 1, 2022, Law No. 130 of August 31, 2022, containing provisions on the tax justice system, entered into effect in Italy.Modification of the Denomination of Tax CourtsArticle 1(1)(a) of Law...
View ArticleEngland and Wales: News Broadcasters Permitted to Film Crown Court Sentencing...
July 28, 2022, marked a moment of legal history in England and Wales when, for the first time, sentencing remarks from a judge in the Crown Court were broadcast on news channels. The case involved a...
View ArticleEuropean Union: Commission Proposes Suspending Payments to Hungary Due to...
On September 18, 2022, the European Commission proposed measures under the Conditionality Regulation to punish Hungary financially due to Hungary’s ongoing violations of the rule of law. In particular,...
View ArticleEngland and Wales: Government Proposes Reforms to the Civil Courts
The government of England and Wales recently issued a public consultation seeking opinions on reforms to the civil justice system. In an effort to promote settling disputes outside of court, the...
View ArticleTunisia: Administrative Court Suspends Presidential Decree Dismissing 50 Judges
On August 10, 2022, the Tunisian Administrative Court issued a decision accepting an urgent petition submitted by 50 judges to return to their duties and suspending a previous presidential decree to...
View ArticleTunisia: Judges Extend Strike to Protest Recent Presidential Order Suspending...
On June 19, 2022, members of the Tunisian Judges’ Association, which represents four judges’ unions in Tunisia, unanimously decided to extend for a third week the strike they had initiated on June 5,...
View ArticleTunisia: President Suspends Supreme Judiciary Council, Establishes...
On February 12, 2022, Tunisian President Kais Saied issued Decree No. 11 of 2022 to establish a new Provisional Supreme Judiciary Council to supervise the judiciary in the country. The new decree...
View ArticleSlovak Republic: New Disciplinary Procedure Code Aims to Strengthen...
On November 11, 2021, the National Council, the parliament of the Slovak Republic, adopted Law 432/2021 on Disciplinary Rules of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic and Amendments...
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