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यह फैसला Office for Students के लिए एक झटका है क्योंकि इसने प्रोफेसर के ट्रांस अधिकारों पर विचारों से जुड़े विरोध प्रदर्शनों को संभालने के तरीके के लिए जुर्माना जारी किया था। Sussex University ने इंग्लैंड के उच्च शिक्षा नियामक द्वारा लगाए गए £585,000 के जुर्माने को रद्द कर दिया है क्योंकि high court ने उन दावों को खारिज कर दिया कि विश्वविद्यालय ने अपनी पूर्व प्रोफेसर Kathleen Stock से जुड़े अभिव्यक्ति की स्वतंत्रता के नियमों का उल्लंघन किया था। यह फैसला Office for Students की साख और प्रबंधन के लिए एक हानिकारक झटका है, क्योंकि अदालत ने Kathleen Stock के ट्रांसजेंडर अधिकारों पर विचारों और 2021 में उनके इस्तीफे को लेकर हुए विरोध प्रदर्शनों से Sussex के निपटने की नियामक की लंबी जांच को खारिज कर दिया। पढ़ना जारी रखें...

Not ‘reasonable’ to impose that Siena Hopper, 25, with no criminal history, should be excluded from City of Sydney except for work or to attend courtFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA judge has overturned the bail conditions imposed by police on a Sydney anti-Herzog protester with no criminal history, saying the conditions were not “reasonable”.Lawyer Wael Skaf made an application before the Downing Centre local court to vary Siena Hopper’s bail conditions, which barred her from attending any “unlawful protests” and included a condition that she not enter the City of Sydney except for work or to attend court. Continue reading...

Clarence Curtis Jordan was convicted in 1978 but hadn’t had a lawyer for over 30 yearsThe Texas court of criminal appeals has overturned the death sentence of Clarence Curtis Jordan, a 70-year-old man with intellectual disabilities, who spent nearly 50 years on death row – much of that time without a lawyer.Jordan was convicted in 1978 for the murder of Joe L Williams, a 40-year-old grocer in Houston, and was sentenced to death. In the years that followed, courts determined that Jordan, who has intellectual disabilities, was “incompetent”, making him ineligible for execution under constitutional standards. Continue reading...