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Foreign Ministry: Trial of Tymoshenko sign of need to reform entire judicial
He said the norms of criminal law that are currently being applied with respect to Tymoshenko were adopted a long time ago, and had not changed since then. "We need to bring this legislation into line with what European countries expect.
Updated: 10/03/2011 12:06P
Wiley Rein LLP | Court Applies Criminal/Intentional Acts Exclusion to Bar
The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, applying Minnesota law, has held that a policy's criminal/intentional acts exclusion bars coverage for a money judgment based solely on the underlying plaintiff's negligence and breach of
Updated: 10/03/2011 11:56A
RIA Novosti: Ukrainian parliament to consider 'Tymoshenko bills' on Wednesday
The Ukrainian parliament will consider a series of amendments to the country's Criminal Code that would allow ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to avoid imprisonment, the Supreme Rada speaker said on Monday. Tymoshenko is charged with abuse of office
Updated: 10/03/2011 11:50A
Heat of the Law
Fesenko pointed to another potentially positive, if still somewhat murky, side to the draft law: if Tymoshenko is found guilty but manages to skirt jail time, it could open up the possibility for her re-entrance into electoral politics – just what
Updated: 10/03/2011 11:42A
Minister for Justice examining advice on criminalising purchase of sex
He said that the Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008 criminalised the trafficking of persons for the purchase of sexual exploitation. With regard to prostitution, the criminal law is aimed at protecting society from the more intrusive aspects of
Updated: 10/03/2011 11:38A
Milford Officer Promoted
He earned a law degree in 2005 from Southern New England School of Law, now the University of Massachusetts School of Law. He earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Westfield State College in 1997. He served in the US Army Reserves from
Updated: 10/03/2011 11:32A
Gibson Guitar Plays the Overcriminalization Blues
Do you know all the laws of each of the 50 states (not to mention the assorted territories, Indian reservations, and other enclaves)? Probably not. And yet “ignorance of the law is no excuse” has been a maxim of criminal law since time immemorial.
Updated: 10/03/2011 11:29A
New Supreme Court term: Decisions on health care overhaul, immigration
Seated from left are Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Standing, from left are Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer,
Updated: 10/03/2011 11:22A
Harringtons Support Bill to Move Rape, Murder Investigations Off Campus
Nicknamed "Kathryn's Law," the bill looks to bypass what supporters call an ill-equipped campus police investigation as well as a hush-hush campus judicial process that discourages criminal charges, lacks transparency, accountability and ends in little
Updated: 10/03/2011 11:15A
New firm files paperwork for initiative petitions
Setting up a fund to compensate people who are wrongly convicted of crimes. • Precluding prosecutors from filing multiple charges on people based on a single incident. • Barring companies from firing workers for their off-the-job conduct.
Updated: 10/03/2011 10:59A
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