Supreme court

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Warsaw and towns across Poland on Thursday night to protest the ruling party's drive to reorganize all levels of the judiciary, including contentious legislation that gives control of the nation's Supreme Court to the president instead of to judges, according to ABC News.

A local Turkish court rejected an appeal to the detention of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu on June 15, a day after the MP was sentenced to 25 years in jail for espionage. 

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has discussed with Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov opportunities to improve the mechanisms of interaction between the institutions involved in the fight against corruption and organized crime, reported BNR.

The GERB members see a "politics activity" in the idea for the Prosecutor's Office to be out of the judiciary. This proposal was made yesterday by the chairman of the Supreme Court of Cassation Lozan Panov on a meeting with the President Rumen Radev.

The National Assembly cannot require a report for the Prosecutors' Office deals on a specific criminal case from the Supreme prosecutor. This was the solid response from The Constitutional Court on a question from Sotir Tsatsarov, Legalword reported.

The National Assembly adopted а proposal to amend the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly so that the Committee on Legal Affairs can invite the Prosecutor-General to a hearing every three months, FOCUS News Agency reported.

Venezuela's pro-government Supreme Court revoked its takeover of the opposition-led Congress on April 1 after it drew international condemnation and protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

"This controversy is over," Maduro said just after midnight at a specially convened state security committee, Reuters reported. 

Wednesday's decision by the Supreme Court's judges and prosecutors was a momentous one, as they sent a clear message that high-ranking judicial officials will not allow anyone at all to play games with issues and institutions that are at the core of constitutional order.

The Supreme Court of Britain has ruled that the government cannot trigger Article 50 and initiate the withdrawal from the European Union without consent of Parliament.

The decision, which turns down a government's appeal of the ruling of a lower-instance court, has been approved by a distinct majority of 8 to 3 votes, according to the Guardian.

Greece's Supreme Court on Jan. 23 postponed an expected ruling on whether to extradite eight Turkish soldiers sought by Ankara over the July 2016 failed coup attempt.