The Supreme Court has set aside Gauhati High Court judgments, ordering fresh adjudication for 27 appellants declared foreigners. The court emphasized that citizenship status requires a fair, lawful, and reasonable process, acknowledging the state's interest in preventing misuse of citizenship claims while ensuring procedural fairness.
The Indian government plans to mandate driving tests for license renewals of motorists with traffic rule violations. Amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act also propose interim compensation for accident victims and increased pre-deposit for appeals.
China's People's Tribunals handled 34 million cases from 2021-2025, a 1.7x increase, with rural courts handling 7615. Services expanded both online and offline, including mobile courts and online dispute resolution, to address民生 (livelihood) issues and support rural revitalization.
China's Supreme People's Court has named 100 people's tribunals as the first batch of 'Fengqiao-Style People's Tribunals' to promote the 'Fengqiao Experience' in the new era. The move aims to enhance judicial services for economic and social development.
Israel has established a special military tribunal to try Palestinians accused of involvement in the October 7 Hamas-led attack, with the power to impose the death penalty. However, international organizations, campaigners, and analysts question its fairness, viewing it as potential revenge rather than justice.
Supreme Court-mandated appellate tribunals restored voting rights of 1,468 people before Wednesday's second phase of polls in West Bengal, bringing total reinstatements to 1,607 across two rounds. The tribunals deleted only 6 voters in phase 2, making cumulative deletions 14. The 115:1 restoration-to-deletion ratio has intensified scrutiny of the Special Intervention Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which reduced Bengal's electorate from 7.6 crore to 6.82 crore, disenfranchising 27 lakh people under the logical discrepancy clause.
As Bengal gears up for its assembly elections, tribunals have restored voting privileges to 139 individuals whose names were previously expunged during a meticulous revision process. This reinstatement, albeit affecting just a small segment of the over 27 lakh originally disqualified voters, marks a positive step.
The victims' commissioner has made a formal complaint after rape survivors described breaking down in tears during a Westminster evidence session about changes to jury trials. Claire Waxman said she could not in good conscience encourage victim-survivors to participate in sessions that may cause retraumatisation. Survivors described the questioning as "pugnacious" and "threatening", with one stating she was "sobbing and struggling to breathe". Rape Crisis and Women's Aid also raised concerns about the "adversarial" tone.
Geoffrey Robertson KC, founder of Keir Starmer's barristers' chambers, has strongly criticized proposed restrictions on jury trials in England and Wales, calling them a 'betrayal of Labour values' and a 'cure worse than the disease'.
