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You cannot base an opinion on faulty facts
"Common sense" should have had the writer check the law before writing the editorial. When I checked with a lawyer I was told Sections 487 and 487.11 of the Criminal Code of Canada define five situations providing police access to private property.
Updated: 06/11/2011 03:37A
Platt College School of Legal Studies Now Offering a Criminal Justice
Platt College's School of Legal Studies announced today that it will begin offering a Criminal Justice Bachelors degree program at its Southern California campuses in the Greater Los Angeles and Inland Empire areas. The new degree program supplements
Updated: 06/11/2011 03:24A
Two Santa Cruz 'Peace Camp 2010' protestors jailed on six-month sentence
SANTA CRUZ -- Two men arrested during a lengthy homeless protest last year on the steps of Santa Cruz County Superior Court and City Hall were sentenced Friday to six months in County Jail. Homeless activist and attorney Ed Frey, 69,
Updated: 06/11/2011 12:37A
Two 'Peace Camp 2010' protestors jailed on six-month sentence
SANTA CRUZ - Two men arrested during a lengthy homeless protest last year on the steps of Santa Cruz County Superior Court and City Hall were sentenced Friday to six months in County Jail. Homeless activist and attorney Ed Frey, 69,
Updated: 06/11/2011 12:11A
Rivera's Daughter: Trove of Kahlo Works Not Authentic
With no charges pending, Noyola and Fernandez said their projects include founding a museum for the purported Kahlo works and possibly creating a traveling exhibition. The dealers are committing “a very serious offense against morality, against honesty
Updated: 06/10/2011 11:08P
DOJ orders refiling of charges vs 7 Chinese poachers
8550 is a special law. It is well-settled in our criminal law that in those crimes punishable by special laws, the act alone, irrespective of the motive, constitutes the offense," the resolution read. "Fishing inside Philippine waters is not immoral or
Updated: 06/10/2011 10:32P
Why Supreme Court is good for Scots Law
There is nothing particularly transformative about the reasoning of the judges; there is no importation of alien doctrines or Anglicisation of Scottish criminal law. Shockwaves have been felt, but only those which would have inevitably come our way.
Updated: 06/10/2011 10:05P
Engineers build on reforms
"You are also a business executive with corporate responsibility and liability," she said,. Ms Shameem said the process of holding engineers accountable was not satisfactory and as a result unwary consumers had to resort to the civil law of negligence.
Updated: 06/10/2011 08:38P
Canada Supremes: No Sexual Consent for the Unconscious
"There is no crisis in our criminal law by virtue of this decision," said Elizabeth Sheehy, a lawyer for the women's Legal Education and Action Fund and a law professor at the University of Ottawa. "You're not going to see a rash of prosecutions for
Updated: 06/10/2011 08:17P
Jailed DV Survivors Aided; Gaddafi 'Ordered Rape'
The report is co-authored by the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School and the Women in Prison Project of the Correctional Association of New York. "The design of the New York criminal law fails to establish minimum sentences
Updated: 06/10/2011 06:23P
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