The Equatorial Guinean Government has announced the suspension of Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a politician and a former head of his country’s anti-graft National Agency for Financial Investigation (ANIF). Earlier, PREMIUM TIMES reported that numerous sex tapes, allegedly over 400, involving Mr Engonga, the son of Baltasar Engonga Edjoo—the current president of the Economic and Monetary … Read more
Gov’t secretary Yossi Fuchs made an illegal threat against labor ministry accountant to force him to approve financial transfers to families for daycare subsidies, including to haredi families whose father had not reported for IDF service and were therefore illegible, the attorney-general’s office charged on Monday morning. In a sharply worded letter, Deputy AG … Read more
The government’s decision in August to enable Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to personally choose Israel’s next public-service czar, officially the civil service commissioner (CSC), was an illegal attempt at political takeover of the public service, Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara wrote on Sunday in response to a High Court of Justice petition on the matter. The … Read more
Israel’s government approved on Sunday a proposal aimed at avoiding economic measures against military-age haredi (ultra-Orthodox) yeshiva students, who are required by law to report for IDF service. The proposal was deemed “not legally viable” by the attorney-general’s office, whose opinions are legally binding, but the government approved the measure regardless. The text of … Read more
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to provide information about the numbers and names reiterated by the apex court Collegium for appointment as judges in higher judiciary with reasons why they were not considered so far and at what level they were pending. The direction was passed by a bench headed by Chief … Read more
Government work processes in the current government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have consistently been ”flawed,” Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara warned in a sharply worded letter to Netanyahu on Tuesday. “For a while, significant government decisions are made with flawed work processes,” the letter began. “This, without them being preempted by professional staff work; while … Read more
The Quebec Superior Court has ruled that a lawsuit seeking to overturn Governor General Mary Simon’s appointment can move forward and be heard on its merits. Justice Marie-Hélène Dubé dismissed an application by the attorney general of Canada to have the case thrown out, giving the plaintiffs — two Quebec language rights groups — their second win in … Read more
Canada’s premiers have sent a letter to the prime minister demanding a thorough review of the bail system after the homicide of a Surrey, B.C., woman. Tori Dunn, 30, was killed in her home on June 16. Her death prompted an outpouring of grief in the Metro Vancouver suburb. The man who has been arrested … Read more
The Quebec government is requesting that Supreme Court Justice Mahmud Jamal recuse himself from hearing the challenge to the province’s secularism law because he was board president for one of the plaintiffs. In letters sent to the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada, Attorney General of Quebec Bernard Roy, the Mouvement laïque québécois, as … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR: The first phase of the empirical study on the separation of roles of the attorney general (AG) and public prosecutor (PP) will conclude after the research by the Special Task Force on Comparative Studies in the United Kingdom (UK) is completed, says Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said. The Minister in the Prime Minister’s … Read more
