Overturns

• A decisão é um golpe para o Office for Students, após a aplicação de multa pela gestão de protestos sobre as opiniões de uma professora sobre direitos trans • A Universidade de Sussex anulou uma multa de £585.000 imposta pelo órgão regulador do ensino superior da Inglaterra, depois que o tribunal de instância superior rejeitou alegações de que a universidade teria violado regulamentos de liberdade de expressão envolvendo sua ex-professora Kathleen Stock. • A decisão é um golpe prejudicial à credibilidade e gestão do Office for Students, após o tribunal rejeitar a extensa investigação do regulador sobre a maneira como a Sussex lidou com os protestos direcionados a Stock devido às suas opiniões sobre direitos de pessoas transgênero e sua subsequente renúncia em 2021.

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...