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Courts: judgment day
This remarkable situation – which, given the importance of case law in this country, is all the more extraordinary – has arisen because of the Ministry of Justice's decision to release significant judgments through a long-standing contract with a site
Updated: 09/25/2011 06:42P
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Tampa Bay closes at home against the Yankees, while the Red Sox play at Baltimore. Toronto's Jose Bautista, the major league leader with 43 homers, appeared to hurt his left leg on Zobrist's first-inning homer, hitting the right-field fence hard while
Updated: 09/25/2011 06:18P
Bar council fumes as lawyer publishes ad against ex-chairman
The Bar Council of Gujarat (BCG) on Sunday passed a resolution to lodge a criminal complaint against a lawyer — Ajitsinh Gohil — whose licence to practice law was terminated by the former in May. The decision comes in the wake of an advertisement
Updated: 09/25/2011 06:15P
How American Justice Went Wrong
(Newser) – The American criminal justice system is collapsing, right? In a new book excerpted in Salon, Harvard law professor William J. Stuntz presents his evidence: a sky-high high prison population, high murder rates,
Updated: 09/25/2011 06:07P
How American Justice System Collapsed: Harvard Law Professor
(Newser) – We all know the American criminal justice system is collapsing—or so argues Harvard law professor William J. Stuntz. In a new book excerpted in Salon, Stuntz presents his evidence: a sky-high high prison
Updated: 09/25/2011 05:51P
Debate over GPS devices on suspects' cars spurs 'Big Brother' concerns
US Justice Department lawyers argued no warrant was really needed. An appeals court overturned Jones' conviction and the government appealed to the Supreme Court. In the Bey IV case, Judge Thomas Reardon said he saw no real difference between police
Updated: 09/25/2011 05:01P
The collapse of American justice: Not long ago, we had a low incarceration
In all these examples, criminal law does not function as law. Rather, the law defines a menu of options for police officers and prosecutors to use as they see fit. Discretion and discrimination travel together. Ten percent of black adults use illegal
Updated: 09/25/2011 04:20P
Emirati who ate hashish in Netherlands 'broke no law', UAE court told
ABU DHABI // A man who ate hashish in the Netherlands should be acquitted because that country's law does not penalise the act, the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court of First Instance heard yesterday. The Emirati's lawyer, Labeeb Hammad, said his client had
Updated: 09/25/2011 04:10P
Media and politicians are misleading about law on squatters
We want it to be clear that it is already a criminal offence for a squatter to occupy someone's home, or a home that a person intends to occupy, under the Criminal Law Act 1977. A homeowner will be a displaced residential occupier, or if they are
Updated: 09/25/2011 02:31P
Rehoboth PD looking for next summer's seasonal officers
The training period is a minimum sixty (60) hours and will cover city and state laws, Police Discipline and Courtesy, Patrol Procedures and Manual Traffic Control, Criminal Law, Laws of Arrest, Search and Seizure, Report Writing, Emergency Care,
Updated: 09/25/2011 02:22P
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