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CHAPMAN: 'Caylee's Laws' will serve no great purpose
As a general rule of sound government, it's also a good idea never to enact a law named after a person. Personalizing criminal law usually stems from fruitless outrage at a freakish event. Plenty of legislators are ignoring that risk.
Updated: 07/18/2011 03:09A
IFJConcerned at Spike in Criminal Prosecution of Journalists
Some of these actions are taken under special security laws enacted in conflict prone areas, while several are under ordinary criminal law in regions where no perceptible threat of insurgent violence exists. The paper was presented and discussed at a
Updated: 07/18/2011 02:04A
Right-to-Die: Heading Towards Sue Rodriguez 2
"The Canadian Criminal Code is cruel," Ogden said, with genuine anger in his voice. "The woman wanted to die. She was desperately ill. But Canadian law forced her to leave her bed, her home, her friends -- all the things that made her comfortable
Updated: 07/18/2011 12:45A
China Scene: West
before trying to rape her after she had given him some water at her house. The Criminal Law stipulates that a man who forces a female to have sex with him should be charged with rape. The law does not apply if the victim is a man or is androgynous.
Updated: 07/17/2011 11:00P
Dilemmas of Sovereignty and Intervention
This subversive thrust is reinforced by the development and institutionalization of international criminal law, enforcement of accountability claims against such pariah leaders as Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, as well as lesser figures in the entourage
Updated: 07/17/2011 10:57P
Italy's Delegation Highlights Progressive Programmes in Countering Criticism
How did the Government monitor implementation of the law by public officials in rural areas, especially labour law and criminal law? RUTH HALPERIN-KADDARI, expert member from Israel, noted that divorce proceeding were very long, and a decree could only
Updated: 07/17/2011 10:30P
The dangers of enacting 'Caylee's Law'
As a general rule of sound government, it's also a good idea never to enact a law named after a person. Personalizing criminal law usually stems from fruitless outrage at a freakish event. Plenty of legislators are ignoring that risk.
Updated: 07/17/2011 08:10P
Defending Prince William's prosecutor
Having practiced criminal law in Prince William for many years and even having been prosecuted there, I have absolute faith that Mr. Ebert and his assistant, Richard A. Conway, never intentionally “stifled a vigorous truth-seeking process.
Updated: 07/17/2011 07:58P
With boycott law passed, rightist MK fires first salvo at Meretz
But the secretary general of Meretz and his activists, who wanted to strike a blow at settlement products, apparently forgot the criminal code" - which, the MK added, already contains a law prohibiting these sorts of actions. According to Eldad: "The
Updated: 07/17/2011 07:34P
Barristers seek to postpone proposed fee cuts
This has also meant criminal law practitioners could and did act for both the prosecution and the defence in different cases. The system is “regarded by the Bar Council as a fundamental cornerstone of a person's constitutional right to legal
Updated: 07/17/2011 07:11P
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