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MSTC column: Law enforcement partnerships benefit many
For more than 20 years, MSTC has received great support from local law enforcement agencies, and, in turn, we have helped support those agencies' missions. Under the direction of Dr. Clark Pagel, associate dean of the Criminal Justice Law Enforcement
Updated: 09/06/2011 04:56A
A criminal missed opportunity in China
HONG KONG - When the news broke that the National People's Congress (NPC), the Chinese parliament, planned to make extensive changes to the wholly inadequate Criminal Procedure Law, human-rights activists expressed hope that the revisions
Updated: 09/06/2011 04:38A
Gold fever sweeps the criminal underworld
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a summer of brazen attacks on gold stores, parts of downtown Los Angeles now look more like a militarized zone than a commercial corridor. The gold fever that has driven prices to an all-time high is also fueling a crime spree
Updated: 09/06/2011 03:49A
Garrett Bithell
Garrett was three years into a law degree in Adelaide, specialising in criminal law and human rights, when a trip to Sydney and a chance meeting with the then-editor of The Brag late one night at the Cleveland Hotel in Sydney led to him interviewing
Updated: 09/06/2011 03:37A
Questioning morality
There was a time when people were more conscious of how their actions might affect the broader society: religion saw to the task of keeping this consciousness prominent. With the relative decline of the religious influence on society, thinking about
Updated: 09/06/2011 02:19A
Hezbollah Opens Base in Cuba
From civic- and family law to criminal law. It determines how one should eat, dress and even use the toilet. Oppression of women is good, drinking alcohol is bad. The core of the quran is the call to jihad. Jihad means a lot of things and is arabic for
Updated: 09/06/2011 01:14A
Lawyers plan to sue in row over legal aid fees
The Irish Independent has learned that the legal action is one of a number of options, including strike action, being considered by the newly formed Criminal Law Practitioners Organisation. This is a new coalition of barristers and solicitors which has
Updated: 09/05/2011 11:55P
Bhullar's amended plea against death to be heard
Bhullar's lawyer and senior advocate KTS Tulsi, a leading criminal law practitioner, has bought more time for his client when he happened to kindle the court's interest with a two-fold submission today: that death penalty should only be handed out by a
Updated: 09/05/2011 10:11P
Montana caseworkers 'save the world'
For five years, Carrie Galvez worked to protect children in Montana and Cascade County — a job not designed for people itching to please others. "You're hated by a lot of people," she said. "You're accused in that job of doing too much or too little.
Updated: 09/05/2011 06:51P
Role of Civil Society
World over, the primary duty of any Police Force is the prevention and the detention of crime and criminal law enforcement with the view to apprehending perpetrators of crime and collecting evidence against them enabling them to be prosecuted in Courts
Updated: 09/05/2011 03:45P
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