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Rape law conundrum faces top court
It heard an application yesterday by the State and the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development arising from the case of a man accused of sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl. The man argued he could not be charged under the new law
Updated: 05/13/2011 03:34A
Tom Bathurst appointed NSW Chief Justice
Mr Smith said like many people who attain high office, Mr Bathurst had not practised criminal law in recent years. "But I am confident that he will adapt quickly to the traditional role of the chief justice presiding over the court of criminal appeal,"
Updated: 05/13/2011 01:33A
Life Sentence for Murderer of Ay?e Pa?al?
The court decision is based on Article 82/1(a) of the Turkish Criminal Law (TCK) on "deliberate killing committed with premeditation". The court decided for an aggravated life sentence by majority vote because Yetkin killed Pa?al? "not out of rage,
Updated: 05/13/2011 01:22A
Top court told of loophole caused by new rape law
THE Constitutional Court yesterday grappled with transitional provisions of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act of 2007 that created a gap in law and meant a class of people accused of rape and other sexual offences
Updated: 05/13/2011 12:24A
Sharon Goott Nissim
While in law school, she served as the Executive Articles Editor for the Northwestern Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, participated in the Center on Wrongful Convictions clinic, co-chaired Public Interest Law Week, served as a teaching
Updated: 05/13/2011 12:23A
Aaron: Court will decide about 'latent defect'
Does a seller have an obligation to disclose to a purchaser with young children the fact that a person convicted of child pornography lives across the street? That was the issue in a court case which came before
Updated: 05/13/2011 12:13A
Austailisn / Israel & Jewish Affairs Councle
Moreover, Hamas's military wing is a proscribed terrorist organisation in Australia under the Criminal Code Act. It is also a crime under Australian law, and a violation under international law, to provide funding to terrorist groups.
Updated: 05/12/2011 11:09P
City council to vote on bylaw banning fighting in public
Current federal and city laws are more than adequate, said veteran criminal defence lawyer Frank Pappas, who called the city's plan “preposterous.” Criminal Code section 175 plainly outlaws “fighting, screaming, shouting, swearing, singing or using
Updated: 05/12/2011 11:06P
Two men to face charges for polluting
They are the first suspects arrested for an environmental pollution offense after new rules contained in Amendment VIII to the Criminal Law were enacted on May 1. Since 2009, Jiang, 55, had been entrusted with disposing and recycling waste acid
Updated: 05/12/2011 10:02P
Supreme Court hears heroin site debate
"The risks of overdose and the risk of contracting diseases are not a function of the law, the law doesn't force people to use the drugs," said W. Paul Riley, lead counsel for the Government of Canada. "Lives are being saved, diseases are being
Updated: 05/12/2011 08:06P
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