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Law students closely watching Casey Anthony trial
"I got to use evidence law and criminal procedure. I got to see those things in action," said Hock. "Nothing illustrates how the system functions like reality," said LeRoy Purnell, dean of Florida A&M University's College of Law.
Updated: 06/08/2011 05:28P
Bill limiting sharia law is motivated by 'concern for Muslim women'
The Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill will introduce an offence carrying a five-year jail sentence for anyone falsely claiming or implying that sharia courts or councils have legal jurisdiction over family or criminal law.
Updated: 06/08/2011 04:15P
Caditz Awarded Fulbright to Teach English Abroad
Studying a Spanish and English and comparative literary studies double major at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., she is one of nine students and alumni this year at the school to receive prestigious Fulbright scholarships to work and study
Updated: 06/08/2011 04:09P
NDP leader asks RCMP to investigate health-care allegations
Alberta NDP Leader Brian Mason wants the RCMP to investigate allegations that MLAs used their influence to help their politically connected friends move up waiting lists for medical care.
Updated: 06/08/2011 03:53P
Ugandan to chair hearing of ICC case
Justice Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko will lead the Bench in making a decision that would seal the Government's bid to have the six post-election violence suspects tried in Kenya. The president of the court's Appeals Division, Judge Anita Usacka,
Updated: 06/08/2011 03:48P
Sir Ronald Waterhouse
The north Wales child abuse inquiry, from 1996 until 2000, drew on all Waterhouse's experience as a family division judge and his earlier background in criminal law. It sat for 203 days, and Waterhouse was obliged to sift through some 10000 children's
Updated: 06/08/2011 12:55P
New Bill to stop Sharia Law from operating in UK
In proposing the new Bill she said: “Equality under the law is a core value of British justice. My Bill seeks to preserve that standard. My Bill seeks to stop parallel legal, or 'quasi-legal', systems taking root in our nation. Cases of criminal law
Updated: 06/08/2011 12:26P
Ukraine to continue improving anti-corruption legislation, says president
He also pointed to the need to improve the Criminal Code. In particular, Yanukovych noted that some economic crimes should be punished with fines and not imprisonment. The president said that many European countries apply substantial fines for economic
Updated: 06/08/2011 12:04P
European Parliament agrees on common draft resolution on Tymoshenko case
The European Parliament has drafted a common resolution on Ukraine in which the basic clauses remained unchanged – with calls not to use criminal law to prosecute the opposition and not to restrict the freedom of movement of political leaders.
Updated: 06/08/2011 11:58A
System speeds up criminal checks
NC State Controller David McCoy was in Hendersonville Tuesday to kick off the expansion of the Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Automated Data Services. McCoy's office deployed the CJLEADS program to Wake County as a pilot program in July 2010.
Updated: 06/08/2011 11:12A
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