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Commission calls for EU public prosecutor
The treaty strengthens EU powers to protect its own financial interests through closer co-operation in criminal law, and suggests the creation of a European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) “from Eurojust”. The Commission now endorses this approach,
Updated: 05/27/2011 09:16A
Waters is available to discuss the following topics related to Mladic's arrest:
He is editing a book on the Milosevic trial and teaches courses on international criminal law and the Yugoslav wars. A frequent contributor to policy debates on international law and politics, he has published op-eds in the New York Times,
Updated: 05/27/2011 08:53A
Silent betrayal
Even if suspicions are aroused, those accustomed to a law-based system will hesitate to assume the role of judge when they don't know all the details. Those who know of the rule of law only from books will understand very quickly that it's better not
Updated: 05/27/2011 06:19A
People-Smuggling Regulations Urgently Needed
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Romli Atmasasmita, an expert on international criminal law, said regulations concerning people smuggling are urgently needed. The Immigration Law is no longer considered adequate to take action against perpetrators.
Updated: 05/27/2011 06:12A
Thailand's Lse Majest Laws under Scrutiny
However, a separate campaign to amend the relevant section of the country's Criminal Code is under way, with some writers and scholars—the latter known as the Nitirassadorn group—recently proposing amendments to the lse majest law,
Updated: 05/27/2011 05:13A
New Leadership for the ICC
The Rome Statute requires that candidates for the bench - the ICC has a total of 18 judges - be "of high moral character, impartiality and integrity" and have "established competence" in criminal law or "relevant areas of international law.
Updated: 05/27/2011 05:05A
High Court Sets Aside Conviction in Fatal Officer Shooting
Robert Batey, a criminal law professor at Stetson University College of Law, said he wasn't surprised to see the justices differing about how to interpret an ambiguous criminal statute. The case now will go back before the US Court of Appeals for the
Updated: 05/27/2011 02:35A
Sidley Austin LLP | SEC Adopts Final Rules Implementing Whistleblower
be derived from an individual's “independent knowledge” or “independent analysis”: by compliance or internal audit personnel; by a means or in a manner that is determined by a United States court to violate applicable federal or state criminal law.
Updated: 05/27/2011 02:30A
Some Random Thoughts
213); (3) failure of accountable officer to render accounts (art. 218 and 219); and (4) evasion of sentence by a prisoner through negligence of the officer charged with his custody (art. 224). The second element of a felony is that the act must be
Updated: 05/26/2011 11:39P
VIP-Hunters beyond the Law
Now the three defendants have a right to rehabilitation and the moral damage compensation for unlawful criminal prosecution. “This is one more proof of the fact that we do not have any legal system, be it justice or law enforcement bodies”,
Updated: 05/26/2011 11:01P
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