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Squatting law is being misrepresented to aid ministers' reforms, claim lawyers
The 160 lawyers, who represent tenants and landlords across England and Wales, say the housing minister, Grant Shapps, and justice minster, Crispin Blunt, are "obscuring" the law and accuse them of "sensationalist misrepresentation" during recent
Updated: 09/25/2011 01:31P
Law Enforcement Agencies Await Decision On Warrantless GPS Tracking
Jones has been appealed to the Supreme Court by the US Justice Department and is being called the most important Fourth Amendment case in the past decade. Justice Department officials argue that prompt resolution of the issue is imperative so that law
Updated: 09/25/2011 12:44P
Follow Philippine laws, Duterte to foreigners
In his television program "Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa", Duterte said what the BI did is not really impunity of a criminal or penal action since it was only implementing an administrative law. A country has the right to refuse a person entry if he is
Updated: 09/25/2011 12:41P
Bail jumpers treat law with contempt
IT IS fundamental to any functioning society that its citizens have faith in a strong criminal justice system. This means agencies that are effective, courts that are respected and laws that are enforced. But today's revelations by The Daily Telegraph
Updated: 09/25/2011 12:03P
Former MOE employee first to get money under new Criminal Compensation Act
Under the new law, it is easier for defendants in a criminal case to be granted compensation and the sums awarded tend to be higher than under the previous law. Lin said that under the False Imprisonment Compensation Act, Sung would have been unable to
Updated: 09/25/2011 12:01P
Opposition Leaders To Meet On Wednesday Over Hudud
He said the state government was drawing up the Syariah Criminal Law Enactment (II) 1993 (Hudud law). "When ready, the hudud law can be used as a guideline for the (syariah court) judges and they know what to do. "The hudud law is actually not cruel
Updated: 09/25/2011 08:58A
Disbarred RI lawyer charged for practicing law again
For many years, Levitt was a prominent real-estate lawyer in Rhode Island with a practice on the East Side of Providence. But in 1991, he was one of four lawyers suspended from practice for loaning money to or arranging loans for former Family Court
Updated: 09/25/2011 08:03A
Labor law needs fixing
The indictment accuses union leaders of running a criminal enterprise that lasted nearly a decade and added millions of dollars to the cost of construction projects. Its tactics, the indictment alleges, include a death threat, a knife attack and
Updated: 09/25/2011 06:05A
Victims of stalking let down by justice system which only jails violent offenders
By Daily Mail Reporter Stalkers should face tougher sentencing according to campaigners who are angered by the current justice system that currently only penalises violent offenders. The probation union Napo are leading calls for a new stalking law to
Updated: 09/25/2011 04:28A
Victims of stalking 'let down by justice system' which only jails violent
And stalkers tended to be older than most offenders in the criminal justice system, with more than half being aged over 40, compared with just one in five of those on the probation and prison caseload. It also found it was 'impossible to treat the
Updated: 09/25/2011 04:28A
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