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Supreme judge asks ccourt to review law on criminal procedures
By MTI President Andras Baka of the Supreme Court has asked the Constitutional Court to declare some parts in Hungary's new law on criminal procedures unconstitutional, the news website birosag.hu said on Wednesday. The law entered into force shortly
Updated: 08/25/2011 02:00A
Ghana: Homosexuality 'not a human rights issue'
By GayNZ.com Daily News staff - 24th August 2011 The new head of Ghana's Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice says she doesn't think homosexuality should be legal, and claims it's a criminal law issue not a human rights issue.
Updated: 08/24/2011 10:29P
China amends law to confiscate ill-gotten money
BEIJING - China's legislature will revise its Criminal Procedure Law to allow the confiscation of illegally-obtained money from corrupt officials and terrorists who have fled the country. Draft amendments submitted Wednesday to the National People's
Updated: 08/24/2011 10:23P
Proposals to ban torture testimony
The amendment to the Criminal Procedural Law aims to improve the gathering of evidence, Lang Sheng, deputy director of the legislative affairs commission of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, told lawmakers at their bimonthly
Updated: 08/24/2011 09:08P
Draft to protect rights of insane
The amendment would also help prevent the police or other authorities from abusing their current power to force people to receive treatment for mental illnesses, said Chen Weidong, a criminal law professor with Renmin University of China.
Updated: 08/24/2011 09:08P
Procedural justice
This has and will remain the main source of resistance against the revision. But for justice's sake, such a price is necessary. That is why we wish the draft revision bon voyage through its current review, and the one in March.
Updated: 08/24/2011 09:08P
Bernard Schoenburg: Tim Londrigan eyes circuit judge race
I think I have one of the more varied backgrounds you're going to find from anyone … who practices law in this area.” That experience also includes criminal law. Londrigan has worked part-time for 28 years for the Illinois State's Attorneys Appellate
Updated: 08/24/2011 08:58P
China amends law to confiscate illegally-obtained money from runaway officials
24 (Xinhua) -- China's legislature will revise its Criminal Procedure Law to allow the confiscation of illegally-obtained money from corrupt officials and terrorists who have fled the country. Draft amendments submitted Wednesday to the National
Updated: 08/24/2011 01:27P
Someone has a sex video of me and will not return it to my possession, what
Maybe in one of the civil law sections. I'm not sure this is a true criminal law question... If you made the video knowingly and voluntarily (and you're of legal age to consent to the activities depicted on the video)...I don't think it's a crime to
Updated: 08/24/2011 12:45P
Landmark law and neuroscience network expands at Vanderbilt
24, 2011 — 10:47 AM The MacArthur Research Network on Law and Neuroscience is examining multiple effects of modern neuroscience on criminal law and trying to make neuroscience accessible and beneficial to America's courtrooms.
Updated: 08/24/2011 11:52A
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