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PM Mum On Taking Sodomy Laws Off The Books
UNIBAM has filed a motion against the attorney general challenging the constitutionality of section 53 of the Belize Criminal Code, which criminalizes "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any person" which is basically a law banning
Updated: 05/14/2011 03:32A
[Editorial] A serious blow to artistic freedom
Arguing that “freedoms of artistic expression are not constitutionally guaranteed to an unlimited degree, and the damaging of public property with graffiti is an act prohibited by criminal law,” the Seoul Central District Court sentenced the two people
Updated: 05/14/2011 12:13A
Respected lawyers and 'pillars of society' to be special magistrates
Both new appointees have spent about 40 years in the law and currently serve on the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Mr Lunney said he was looking forward to re-entering the field of criminal law. ''I think this is a job that will be of interest
Updated: 05/13/2011 10:35P
Legal Changes, Better Protection for Journalists in Serbia
In an open letter - in which he wrote that he was "ashamed as a citizen" - B92 editor- in -chief Veran Matic, who lives under 24-hour police protection, noted that according to Serbia's 2009 Criminal Code the penalty for beating up a journalist is
Updated: 05/13/2011 09:11P
Editor'sMemo: Fulfilling our watchdog role
It is three years since the editor of our sister paper, the Standard, Davison Maruziva, and Arthur Mutambara were arrested under the catch-all Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act following an opinion piece Mutambara had written critical of
Updated: 05/13/2011 07:51P
Four charged for allegedly watching sex in jail cell
BC's Criminal Justice Branch released a statement Friday indicating Criminal Code charges of breach of trust by a public official have been sworn against Cpl. Rick Brown, Const. Evan Elgee, Const. Stephen Zaharia and City employee David Tompkins.
Updated: 05/13/2011 05:27P
This Week at War: Send in the Lawyers? - By Robert Haddick
Bin Laden's sons as well as other analysts outside the United States view the raid in the context of the procedures of criminal law. By contrast, Holder and most observers inside the United States view the raid as a military mission with bin Laden just
Updated: 05/13/2011 05:27P
42 years on, the freedoms that Bill C-150 affirmed can't be taken for granted
The policy of the Canadian Blood Services is to ban any man who has had sex with another man since 1977 from giving blood for the rest of his life. The organization asserts that it is arms-length enough from the government to uphold the ban without
Updated: 05/13/2011 05:04P
Zimbabwe: Journalist Arrested, Independent Dailies Harassed
A reporter for Weekly Agenda (a news bulletin published by the civil society organization Bulawayo Agenda), Ndlovu was arrested after being summoned to police headquarters in Hwange and was charged under section 31 of the Criminal Law Code and Reform
Updated: 05/13/2011 04:43P
analysisWhat the Demjanjuk verdict means for war crimes prosecutions
Rebecca Wittmann: Demjanjuk was tried under the regular German penal code, so in that sense he was not tried as a Nazi or as a war criminal, but as an accessory to murder. The German penal code is completely different from the charges used at Nuremberg
Updated: 05/13/2011 02:34P
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