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China Mobile Executive Gets Death Penalty For Taking Bribes From Siemens
According to China's Criminal Law, companies shall be fined if they offer bribes and commissions to government officials or those working in a state-owned enterprise. Company employees guilty of bribery shall be given jail terms of up to five years.
Updated: 06/21/2011 10:33A
Breakenridge: Stop going around in circles on prostitution
Prostitution is legal, but through an array of Criminal Code provisions, it is essentially criminalized. The status quo makes little sense, and makes a risky profession more dangerous. Himel struck down the laws prohibiting living on the avails of
Updated: 06/21/2011 10:29A
Insurance fraud: Prosecution and sanctions in Turkey
As long as an insurance company is able to prove its case and the merits of the case match the definition in the criminal code, an insurance fraud is an offence under Article 158 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). Activities falling under the scope of
Updated: 06/21/2011 09:59A
How Bad Math at Federal Agencies Undervalues Human Life
Ben Trachtenberg is a visiting associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, where he teaches evidence, criminal procedure, and professional responsibility. He previously taught criminal law and environmental law at Brooklyn Law
Updated: 06/21/2011 09:08A
Will amend law to tackle attacks on women: Mayawati
on June 27 and announced that her government has decided to amend the provisions in the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) related to crime against women, particularly rape and sexual abuse of minors, to make them stricter and an effective deterrent.
Updated: 06/21/2011 08:50A
Police charge 19-year-old in hacking probe
The young man "has this afternoon been charged with offences under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Police Central e-Crime Unit," it said. Police have previously said Cleary was arrested on
Updated: 06/21/2011 07:40A
U-turn if you want to…
As a barrister – albeit one fortunate enough to have escaped the non-paying career of criminal law – I was sad to see today's ber-predictable u-turn on sentencing from the government. Plans to permit a larger sentencing discount for those who admit
Updated: 06/21/2011 07:03A
Stop going around in circles on prostitution
Prostitution is legal, but through an array of Criminal Code provisions, it is essentially criminalized. The status quo makes little sense, and makes a risky profession more dangerous. Himel struck down the laws prohibiting living on the avails of
Updated: 06/21/2011 04:17A
Johnson Winter & Slattery | New UK Bribery Act -impact for Australian business
The corporate bribery offence – strict liability A corporation will be guilty of an offence if a person 'associated with' it bribes another person intending to obtain or retain business or an advantage in the conduct of the corporation's business.
Updated: 06/21/2011 03:29A
NGOs: MPs violate people's rights on freedom of religion and private life
on freedom of religion and private life, member of Union of Human Rights Advocates Almaz Esengeldiev said at today's parliamentary hearings on amendments to Family and Criminal Code, the law “About freedom of religion and religious organizations.
Updated: 06/21/2011 03:27A
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