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Ottawa study praising 'faint hope' clause for murderers never released
The faint hope clause was introduced the same year as a free vote in Parliament eliminated the death penalty for Criminal Code offences and instead imposed mandatory life sentences for first- and second-degree murder. Part of the rationale for the
Updated: 05/08/2011 10:55P
Profile assessments begin for justice candidates
Experts on the selection team include criminal law expert Prof. Muladi, state administrative law expert Prof. Laica Marzuki, civil law expert and former justice Johannes Johansyah and religious law expert and former justice Taufiq.
Updated: 05/08/2011 09:57P
Striking a blow for road safety
City police caught 12 people driving while drunk in the first three days after new amendments to the Criminal Law came into effect on May 1. Under the new law, drunk drivers who cause severe consequences face criminal penalties and can be jailed for up
Updated: 05/08/2011 08:24P
LETTERS: I'm the wrong color; Don't celebrate killing; AG response to MMJ
Under state criminal law, it will still be illegal to sell marijuana or marijuana plants to another individual, including a patient on the state registry.” If there was any uncertainty in spite of the plain text of the Colorado Constitution — which the
Updated: 05/08/2011 08:08P
Lawyer's book aims to make boys' day
“There's a need for books that will help get 12-year-old boys to read and it sort of pulled together a lot of the things I'm interested in, from criminal law to motorcycles,” said Michael Hemenway, a Charlottesville criminal attorney, motorcyclist and
Updated: 05/08/2011 05:41P
The Armenian cause and International law
Even though the League of Nations never established an international criminal tribunal to try the Turkish perpetrators of the genocide against the Armenians and other Christian minorities, numerous trials under Turkish law did take place in Istanbul in
Updated: 05/08/2011 04:28P
Commonwealth Secretariat S Asian Judges Regional Forum in Sri Lanka
Chief Justice Asoka de Silva, Attorney General and Head of the Criminal Law Section of Legal and Constitutional Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat and other members of the legal profession from the region and Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and
Updated: 05/08/2011 03:38P
Justice Department study missing in faint hope murder repeal controversy
The faint hope clause was introduced the same year as a free vote in Parliament eliminated the death penalty for Criminal Code offences and instead imposed mandatory life sentences for first- and second-degree murder. Part of the rationale for the
Updated: 05/08/2011 03:07P
Justice Department probes missing 'faint-hope' study
The faint hope clause was introduced the same year as a free vote in Parliament eliminated the death penalty for Criminal Code offences and instead imposed mandatory life sentences for first- and second-degree murder. Part of the rationale for the
Updated: 05/08/2011 02:58P
Justice Department study missing in faint-hope murder repeal controversy
The faint hope clause was introduced the same year as a free vote in Parliament eliminated the death penalty for Criminal Code offences and instead imposed mandatory life sentences for first- and second-degree murder. Part of the rationale for the
Updated: 05/08/2011 02:42P
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