Bar Council Warns of Legal Issues with BSB’s Proposed Proactive Equality Duty

Bar Council Warns of Legal Issues with BSB’s Proposed Proactive Equality Duty. The Bar Council has raised concerns about the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) proposed proactive equality duty, warning it could lead to legal disputes with barristers and may not be lawful. They cautioned that the change might result in “virtue signalling” rather than effectively […]

Legal Dilemmas in Lebanon: The Intersection of Sovereignty, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Law

Legal Dilemmas in Lebanon: The Intersection of Sovereignty, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Law Lebanon’s complex political, historical, and social landscape is deeply intertwined with conflict and foreign intervention. Marked by civil wars and sectarian strife, the country now finds itself at a fragile juncture where legal dilemmas are prevalent. The sovereignty of Lebanon is increasingly […]

“Open Source Fact-Finding In Preliminary Examinations” Quality Control in Preliminary Examination Volume 2

Edited by Morten Bergsmo and Carsten Stahn “Open Source Fact-Finding in Preliminary Examinations” by Alexa Koenig, Felim McMahon, Nikita Mehandru and Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee is a chapter in Quality Control and Preliminary Examinations: Volume 2. The authors discuss how the International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor uses open source information during a case’s preliminary examination stage to […]