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The European Commission is taking the Polish government to the EU's top court to stop alleged breaches of the independence of the country's supreme court. SOUNDBITE
Israeli protesters take to Tel Aviv's Kaplan street to demonstrate against Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-right government proposal to overhaul the judicial system. IMAGES
Pro-EU demonstrators gather outside the Polish Constitutional Court as it readies to deliver a verdict on the validity of EU law in the country. Poland has said it would fight an order from the EU's top court to suspend a "disciplinary chamber" for judges, part of a long-running row over judicial reform. Poland and the EU have been at loggerheads for years over the reforms and Brussels has promised to take strong action against what it sees as a flouting of democratic norms. Poland argues it should be allowed to adopt the judicial reforms it wants and has accused Brussels of a high-handed approach that could split the European Union. IMAGES
Thousands of citizens and hundreds of judges and prosectors from all over Europe rally in Warsaw against a controversial law which could punish judges who question the government's controversial court reforms, a legislative move that critics argue undermines judicial independence. The lower house of parliament adopted the legislation proposed by the governing right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party last month. IMAGES
Poland's Supreme Court chief justice arrives at work in defiance of a retirement law pushed through by the right-wing government but criticised by the EU as undermining judicial independence. 1ST IMAGES
According to Georgian law, underneath a woman's skirt is not a private place thus no need for consent to film up-skirt videos. Oh boy, mind the gap, the legal gap.
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