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Supreme Court's role under scrutiny
A spokesman for Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said: "Tuesday's cabinet meeting will be an opportunity for ministers and the country's top law officer to discuss possible remedies to a situation which has seen criminal cases taken outside Scotland
Updated: 05/28/2011 08:13P
Bicycle thefts
“I think most people accept having a bike stolen as inevitable, since it is fairly common,” said Stuart P. Green, a professor of law who teaches courses in criminal law and criminal procedure at Rutgers Law School in Newark.
Updated: 05/28/2011 07:21P
SNP: stop London hearing Scots human rights cases
MacAskill said: "We believe the UK Supreme Court should have no role in matters of Scots criminal law - a view supported by Scotland's leading legal figures, including the previous lord advocate. "We also believe that the distinct Scottish legal system
Updated: 05/28/2011 07:07P
Every President and Congress Are Complicit in Israel's 'War Crimes'
contributors, settlement real estate agents, settlement house buyers, settlement house mortgage lenders, editorial/Op-Ed writers, broadcasters, preachers, professors, paid propaganda contractors, Israeli government officials, and such.
Updated: 05/28/2011 05:56P
UVa prof: Juries can't escape life-without-parole sentencing
Bowers, whose research subject areas touch on criminal law, said the essay will be part of a collaborative book spurred by a conference on life without parole as the new death penalty. Juries in common law England had more power to be arbiters of the
Updated: 05/28/2011 05:32P
Text of review petition filed to President of India (in 2003) in Prof
In criminal law, a conspiracy by definition requires at least two people. A conspiracy of one- as is the case here where Devinderpal Singh's co-conspirator was found not guilty- is a legal fiction. Moreover, the confessional statement was signed by a
Updated: 05/28/2011 01:17P
Law bodies urge crime stats overhaul
Victoria Legal Aid's director of criminal law services, Saul Holt, said the NSW model offered a ''coherent picture'' of the criminal justice system. Much time was wasted trying to reconcile data from separate sources, including the police,
Updated: 05/28/2011 10:27A
Berlin judge appointed to oversee Mladic trial
Flgge, who has been a judge at the court since 2008, is regarded as an expert on international criminal law. The 63-year-old previously served as state secretary for justice in the Berlin city government. Mladic, who had been sought on charges of
Updated: 05/28/2011 09:41A
Conflict with investigator, flight risk behind ex-minister Lutsenko's arrest
Part 3, Article 365 (abuse of office, which led to grave consequences), and Part 3, Article 364 (the abuse of power and office by a law enforcer, which caused damage to citizens' rights as protected by the law) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Updated: 05/28/2011 08:37A
Man who killed parents in '86 sent back to Rusk Hospital
"We would hope everybody can be treated to a point where they can be released from inpatient treatment," he said. "Mental illness and juveniles have been the historical nemesis in criminal law. There aren't clear answers."
Updated: 05/28/2011 06:10A
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