This article traces how New York courts have shifted from viewing certain criminal trial rights as unwaivable to recognizing that defendants can waive or forfeit them through their conduct, with key ...

The legislature has made dramatic reforms to our criminal justice system over the past several years—limiting monetary bail, increasing the discovery obligations of prosecutors, reducing incarceration ...

Indonesia’s new criminal code replaces colonial law, regulates cohabitation and maintains bans on communist ideology.

Observers say the new Criminal Code and revised Criminal Procedure Code entrench provisions that undermine democracy.

The government has welcomed the Constitutional Court’s decision to begin reviewing judicial challenges to the newly enacted ...

Article 150 After a People's Court has examined a case in which public prosecution was initiated, it shall decide to open the court session and try the case, if the bill of prosecution contains clear ...

Li Zhanshu, chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, presides over a bimonthly legislative session of the NPC Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, ...