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Stronger laws to deal with international child abduction
Mr McClelland said the package of measures will include new criminal offences under the Family Law Act, extending the coverage of existing offences, allowing the family law courts to stop child support payments for parents who have abducted their child
Updated: 09/20/2011 04:28A
Oklahoma's high court refuses to hear bribery case involving an ex- and
Slater said he was disappointed the high court didn't clarify the law with respect to the speech and debate immunity clause. "I think the language in the order by the Court of Criminal Appeals is an incorrect statement of the law," Slater said.
Updated: 09/20/2011 04:02A
Once A Hardened Criminal, Author Is Now A Responsible Adult
This formidable task has been accomplished by using the author as an example in order to (1) make the criminal personality comprehensible to even law-abiding citizens, (2) share techniques that enabled an extreme criminal to attain significant and
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:24A
Las Vegas Attorney Launches New Law Firm
practice areas from medical malpractice to a more general practice focusing on areas such as personal injury, auto accidents, divorce, family law, custody, criminal defense, evictions, bankruptcy, DUI, traffic tickets and worker's compensation.
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:00A
Public's help sought in shooting incident
The Hutchinson County sheriff's office and the Division of Criminal Investigation are seeking information about an incident July 31 in rural Hutchinson County that involved multiple rounds being discharge from a rifle, according to the South Dakota
Updated: 09/20/2011 02:56A
National struggles for support over covert video bill
A political stand-off is developing in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling which means that police can't use spy camera footage as evidence in criminal cases. The Government says it needs to change the law urgently to allow prosecutions
Updated: 09/20/2011 02:33A
Law gives landlords new protections on damage
For starters, Ron Trippet, the western vice president of the Montana Landlords Association, believes that the wording makes it easier for law enforcement officers to know that criminal mischief goes beyond just spray paint or vandalism on the outside
Updated: 09/20/2011 02:04A
Kenya: Uhuru Law Team Hit by Hague Visa Delay
Also affected were three members of the DPM's media team that is to accompany him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) where he is to attend the confirmation of charges hearings scheduled to start Wednesday. But on Monday evening,
Updated: 09/20/2011 12:15A
Divorce case prompts criminal probe
That's a violation of Florida law. And it has led to questions about how easy it is to dissolve a marriage, whether the husband was competent to sign off on the divorce, and why the state attorney is concerned with what appears to be a family dispute.
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:57P
192 charges lodged in one-man tri-county crime spree
SCHWENKSVILLE — A Pottstown man faces nearly 200 criminal charges after a several-month police investigation into more than three dozen business burglaries across the tri-county region. Shannon Jamal Edwards, 22,
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:35P
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