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Chances of corrupt public servants being caught and punished very less
The 1988 PCA consolidated 1947 PCA, 1952 Criminal Law Amendment Act and some sections of IPC. Finally, in 1988, we would address the issue of corruption among public servants. Or so we thought. There is a "Crime in India" database, published by
Updated: 09/01/2011 08:29P
B.C. courts ill-suited to deliver justice to rioters
As Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said the other day, if you want justice, don't look to the criminal law system. "That's not its job," he told CNN host Piers Morgan. "Its job is not to produce a just result. Its job is to produce a legally
Updated: 09/01/2011 08:26P
Kicking and damning corporate souls
As of today, government or private institutions tasked with keeping people in custody will be accountable in criminal law if it can be shown that a “gross duty of care” has led to the death of a detainee. In 2008 the Corporate Manslaughter and
Updated: 09/01/2011 05:10P
Open letter to Platini
One of the principles of criminal law is the acceptance that people are innocent until a court decides otherwise. This is called the “presumption of innocence.” Match fixing is done by people and those people who do it are punished according to laws.
Updated: 09/01/2011 05:01P
Goldstein, Howe & Russell, P.C. | Thursday round-up
Finally, Rory Little of the University of California's Hastings College of the Law provides an overview of last Term's decisions implicating criminal law. SCOTUSblog's summer symposium on the Court's recent class-action decisions and their effects also
Updated: 09/01/2011 04:02P
Proposed Secret Detention Law Angers Chinese Lawyers and Activists
This should be taken a step further.” The proposed changes to China's criminal procedure law will be reviewed at the National People's Congress next March. The changes are the biggest overhaul to China's criminal law since the 1990s.
Updated: 09/01/2011 03:38P
When eyewitnesses are wrong
Of the first 250 cases of people freed from prison after being exonerated by DNA evidence, 190 were convicted on the basis of false identifications. Researchers estimate that as many as a third of the 75000 witness identifications made annually in this
Updated: 09/01/2011 02:48P
MISA: AG withdraws charges against Standard journalists
The trio who are also being charged with criminal defamation as defined under Section 96 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, were arrested following the publication of a story carried in the weekly Standard issue of June 26 – July 2,
Updated: 09/01/2011 12:59P
Police charge two more Anonymous suspects
Christopher Jan Weatherhead, a 20 year-old from Chester, and Ashley Rhodes, a 26 year-old from Kennington in London, have been charged with conspiracy to impair the operation of a computer under the Criminal Law Act 1977, the police force said in a
Updated: 09/01/2011 11:32A
Islamic Justice in Europe 'It's Often a Dictate of Power'
The Islamic arbitrators aren't interested in evidence when they deliver a judgment, and unlike in German criminal law, the question of who is at fault doesn't play much of a role. Wagner: First, they get an idea of the facts.
Updated: 09/01/2011 10:45A
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