Overturns

• 该裁决对 Office for Students 造成打击，此前该机构因萨塞克斯大学在处理针对一名教授跨性别权利观点的抗议活动中的表现而对其开出罚单。 • 在高等法院驳回关于该校违反言论自由条例（涉及前教授 Kathleen Stock）的指控后，萨塞克斯大学撤销了英格兰高等教育监管机构开出的 58.5 万英镑罚款。 • 此次裁决对 Office for Students 的信誉和管理造成了沉重打击，因为法院驳回了该监管机构针对萨塞克斯大学处理 Stock 教授跨性别权利观点引发的抗议及其随后在 2021 年辞职一事的长期调查。

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...