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pet owners fear dangerous dog law
And proposed changes to Victoria's criminal law next month will have dog owners facing up to 15 years' jail, or similar penalties to culpable driving, if their dog injures or kills a person. RSPCA Victoria CEO Maria Mercurio said while she welcomed the
Updated: 08/30/2011 09:41A
Perzel to plead guilty in corruption case
Prosecutors have described the Philadelphia Republican as the architect of a scheme to illegally use millions of dollars' worth of taxpayer-financed computer technology to gain an edge in political campaigns. The 61-year-old Perzel faces 82 counts that
Updated: 08/30/2011 09:22A
China's Draft Law Amendment in Conformity with Int'l Conventions
China's draft amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law will further help protect human rights, and conforms rather than contradicts international conventions, legal experts in Beijing have said. The experts made the remarks in response to doubts cast by
Updated: 08/30/2011 08:06A
China's draft law amendment in conformity with international conventions: experts
30 (Xinhua) -- China's draft amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law will further help protect human rights, and conforms rather than contradicts international conventions, legal experts in Beijing have said. The experts made the remarks in response to
Updated: 08/30/2011 07:40A
Company News: Lawyer HJ Hubert moves practice from Fayetteville to Nedrow
The firm was established early last year with practice in civil litigation, personal injury, criminal law, business and family law. JORDANA MAISEL and JAMES SCHMELING have been hired by The Global Universal Design Commission, a not-for-profit
Updated: 08/30/2011 07:14A
Vic pet owners fear dangerous dog law
'Unless you do DNA testing, even then it's very difficult if you have a number of breeds that have been crossed,' Ms Mercurio told AAP. The organisation had received dozens of calls from worried pet owners, she said. 'People are frightened that their
Updated: 08/30/2011 05:18A
Head to Head / Why are the traffic courts run like a marketplace?
There are people who come with complaints for no good reason - they see how overloaded the courts are and it's more convenient for them to delay the inevitable and go to trial rather than pay a fine, but they'll pay a price for that.
Updated: 08/30/2011 03:43A
Carol Shelly Secures Verdict of $2947749.92 in Pennsylvania
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Updated: 08/30/2011 03:08A
INDONESIA: Medical workers criminally charged for protests over their income
Moreover, the medical workers were reported to the Jayapura regional police for violating criminal law with their protest. The AHRC sees the fabrication of these charges as a violation of the workers freedom of expression.
Updated: 08/30/2011 01:46A
Rule stiffens penalties for hackers
The latest rule, an interpretation made to deal with online crimes, which were added to the Criminal Law in 2009, also applies to Chinese hackers who steal information from foreign computers, said Zhou Guangquan, a member of the National People's
Updated: 08/29/2011 10:45P