Vetting process to be completed by Friday 12 February 2010
Posted on | February 7, 2010
The New York Times reported on 7 February 2010 that an emergency session of Parliament called by Prime Minister Maliki to deal with the latest election crisis failed to muster a quorum on Sunday and was postponed. The seven-member Electoral Judicial Panel is reported to have begun reviewing the disqualifications case by case and [...]
Read More»IHEC delays the start of election campaign
Posted on | February 6, 2010
The BBC reported on 4 February 2010 that the Independent High Electoral Commission had delayed the start of the election campaign from Sunday 7 February 2010 until Friday 12 February 2010 to allow time for an emergency parliamentary debate, to be held on Sunday 7 February 2010, following the court ruling of 3 [...]
Read More»Electoral judicial panel overturns election ban: Will review ‘democratic credentials’ of candidates after the election
Posted on | February 3, 2010
The Higher Judicial Council website carries news that the Electoral Judicial Panel (a Special Chamber comprised of members of the Court of Cassation) in Decision 108 of 2010 has decided to delay its examination of the candidates barred from participating in the election by IHEC on the recommendation of the Accountability and Justice [...]
Read More»Proposals for Reform of the Public Prosecution Service
Posted on | January 30, 2010
We have translated a paper by Judge Nassir Omran al-Mousawi setting out a history of the Public Prosecution service and making proposals for further reform to enable the service to achieve its potential and fill the roles allotted to it by current Iraqi legislation.
Judge Nassir notes that the Public Prosecution is not yet [...]
German Government fund UNDP assistance to Iraqi Judiciary
Posted on | January 30, 2010
The Higher Judicial Council issued a press release on 31 December 2009 announcing that it had signed an agreement with the UNDP and the German Government to provide support during the next two years to the newly opened Judicial Development Institute for the development of curricula for teaching civil law to enable judiciary [...]
Read More»Level of Fines for Criminal Offences
Posted on | January 30, 2010
Inflation has greatly devalued the Iraqi Dinar since the Criminal Laws Promulgated in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The Penal Code and other laws provides for fines to be levied by the courts at levels which are now too small to have any deterrent effect.
The Council of Representatives passed Law No. 6 of [...]
Read More»Aegis Trust
Posted on | January 30, 2010
The Aegis Trust campaigns against crimes against humanity and genocide. Aegis runs the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda (with Kigali City Council) and the Holocaust Memorial and Educational Centre in the UK. It provides research and advocacy support to the All Party Parliamentary Groups on the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity in [...]
Read More»Ali Hasan Al Majid executed
Posted on | January 25, 2010
The BBC reported on 25 January 2010 that Ali Hasan Al Majid (known as ‘Chemical Ali’) was hanged on 25 January 2010.
As previously noted, he received a 4th death sentence on 17 January 2010.
Rule 90 of the Rules of the Iraqi High Tribunal provide that judgments of the tribunal are implemented in accordance [...]
Read More»Continuing Supervision and Punishment After Release from Prison
Posted on | January 20, 2010
Prior to 1978 the continuing punishment of those released from prison after serving their sentences was regulated by Articles 342 to 351 of the Criminal Procedure Code. RCC Resolution 997 of 1978 deleted these provisions and replaced this regime with some new provisions relocated to amended sections of the Penal Code No. 111 of 1969.
Articles [...]
Read More»Justice and Accountability Commission bars candidates and parties from election: Reference to Federal Supreme Court
Posted on | January 20, 2010
The Washington Post reports on 8 January 2010 and 20 January 2010 that the Justice and Accountability Commission have recommended the exclusion of about 500 candidates and 15 political parties from participation in the forthcoming election on 7 March 2010.
According to Asarq Alawasat on 19 January 2010, those excluded include Sunni [...]
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