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UWO educator Mackay loved teaching law students
“Everybody loved him and he loved his students,” recalled senior London lawyer John Lisowski, who studied criminal law and evidence under him during the time Mackay was dean. “He made the subject come alive,” Lisowski said. “He wasn't dull,
Updated: 08/07/2011 06:36P
Rites of the Parents Against Rights of the Child; Circumcision, a Misdemeanor
Nevertheless, a great principle of criminal law must be reminded: there is no crime or offence committed without intention of harming, which is obviously the case. Therefore, applying common law to sexual mutilation is impossible. A special law must be
Updated: 08/07/2011 05:24P
Man surrenders over rape of girl
Under China's Criminal Law, anyone who has sex with a girl younger than 14 is deemed to have committed rape. On the run, Li found a girlfriend who gave birth to their daughter. But he was abandoned after her family learned of his past.
Updated: 08/07/2011 01:37P
Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Monday, August 8
As detectives Goren and Eames, they were probably the best pairing in the entire Law & Order franchise and this series never really worked without them. At the same time, bringing them back demonstrates a sentimentality that is evident elsewhere in
Updated: 08/07/2011 10:04A
The Arab Spring and the duality of the Turkish model
These laws were applied in the spheres of public, administrative and criminal law as well as state finance. Whenever there was a clash between such “raison d'tat” and Islamic law, the sultan's law and raison d'tat emerged victorious.
Updated: 08/07/2011 09:18A
Abolishing the death penalty would be 'crazy'
The death penalty is necessary to protect people from those whose crime is so overwhelmingly violent or whose ongoing actions are violent. The writer said that we should slow down the process, but wasn't 20 years for Robert Jackson slow enough?
Updated: 08/07/2011 04:28A
HIV is a virus, not a crime
A criminal law specifically related to HIV would cast all persons living with the virus as potential criminals and intensify the hysteria surrounding the virus. The stigmatisation of people living with HIV has implications for society as a whole.
Updated: 08/07/2011 04:02A
Report links drugs with gangs
Kingston Police Chief Keith Keiper said police officers attend continuing education seminars on criminal law and numerous training courses that deal with gangs and drug trafficking. An undercover drug agent who asked not to be identified said violent
Updated: 08/07/2011 02:25A
Justice Ministry seeks to eliminate judicial shortcomings in new bill
Academics specialized in criminal law were selected and invited by the Justice Ministry to attend a workshop held to draft the content of the package. Recommendations and views from various sources, including attorneys, judges and prosecutors via
Updated: 08/06/2011 05:17P
Laws for the land
By V. Lakshminarayanan If one issue has been grabbing the headlines every day in Tamil Nadu, apart from Samacheer Kalvi (uniform education system), it is the spate of arrests for alleged land-grabbing by members of the DMK. In the past two months,
Updated: 08/06/2011 01:07P
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