Latest Criminal Law News
Legal Aid extends service
While the bulk of the commission's work is concentrated on family and criminal law, it is now assisting people in taking out probates, letters of administration, drafting wills and in Fiji National Provident Fund withdrawals in the absence of
Updated: 09/12/2011 07:28P
GUYANA GETS IT RIGHT: THE CRIMINALISATION OF HIV WON'T WORK
With an adult HIV prevalence of 3.1 per cent support for criminalisation in The Bahamas reflects a desire to reduce the spread of the virus while exacting justice for those who were intentionally infected. In investigating that option Guyana set up a
Updated: 09/12/2011 06:41P
VUCast: Future diabetes vaccine?
Plus, how studying the brain could impact criminal law. And a special tribute on the anniversary of 9/11. Patients, students and members of the public seeking more information on medical stories should call Vanderbilt University Medical Center News
Updated: 09/12/2011 04:53P
Future Diabetes Vaccine?
Patients, students and members of the public seeking more information on medical stories should call Vanderbilt University Medical Center News Office at (615) 322-4747. Vanderbilt Video has won nine regional Emmy awards and earned 23 nominations since
Updated: 09/12/2011 04:34P
DLA Piper | DLA Piper Vienna: new head for tax group
He specialises in the fields of tax, corporate and financial criminal law, particularly with regard to restructuring, corporate succession and advice on management and board of directors liability. In the last few years he advised and represented
Updated: 09/12/2011 04:17P
Lansing marijuana give-away brings election law criminal charges
Shekina Pena, owner of Your Healthy Choice LLC faces election law violation charges for offering marijuana to encourage support of pro-marijuana council candidates. / Greg Deruiter | Lansing State Journal LANSING -- A Lansing marijuana dispensary owner
Updated: 09/12/2011 01:22P
Fort Myers attorney disbarred for neglecting clients
“He subsequently abandoned his practice without communicating with his clients about their cases,” the bar reported. Online profiles show Evans earned his law degree in 2005 from Ohio Northern University, and was practicing both civil and criminal law
Updated: 09/12/2011 12:51P
Law enforcement Monday
Peach Street, 100 block, non-injury accident reported Sunday evening. 1 Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language. 2 Don't Threaten or Abuse. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.
Updated: 09/12/2011 10:54A
Maximum justice needed
The criminal law is at best a blunt instrument and constitutes only one of the mechanisms available to address this problem. In so far as it is necessary to rely upon it and ultimately the handing down of sentences, the question is not whether the
Updated: 09/12/2011 10:02A
America's detention policy debacle turns ten
In the last decade of the 20 th century, there was a demi-revolution in the enforceability of international criminal law. New institutions were established, starting with the UN ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and including the
Updated: 09/12/2011 08:34A