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Pickton inquiry focus shifts to prostitution laws
Shannon, a researcher with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, said police tactics designed to enforce the law push sex workers into dangerously isolated areas, which significantly increases the risks they face. Changing the law to remove
Updated: 10/19/2011 09:25A
New Jersey Gun Laws Are Fubar Want Proof Take the Quiz
Evan Nappen (www.efnappen.com) is a criminal defense attorney who has focused in firearms and weapons law for over 23 years. He is the author of New Hampshire Gun, Knife, and Weapon Law and the New Jersey Gun Law Guide. He is a director and the General
Updated: 10/19/2011 09:10A
[Movies] New Trailer For Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Fry and Rachel McAdams. Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr.) has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at largeProfessor Moriarty (Harris)and
Updated: 10/19/2011 09:09A
Column: The real trouble with Canadian justice
It is a fact not often recognized in discussions about the Conservative government and criminal justice policy that the government is right. Not about the nature of the problems. Or about the solutions. But still, it is right. It's right that there are
Updated: 10/19/2011 08:51A
Bogus deportation statistics released by Obama angers lawmakers
"All one needs to do is compare the press releases issued by ICE during the Obama years and the Bush years to see they are not focusing on enforcing the nation's immigration laws these days," a Border Patrol agent told the Law Enforcement Examiner.
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:38A
Welsh Assembly to debate smacking ban later today
Later today members of the Welsh Assembly will debate a motion calling for smacking to be banned, but there are doubts about whether they have the power to change the criminal law. David Davies MP, who is chairman of the Welsh Affairs Committee in the
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:38A
Chris Selley: Eat your heart out Tories, Milewski gets it right
One of the problems for the Conservatives' opponents is that when they say, “putting people in prison won't work,” they're making a general prediction about broad social aims. The Conservatives do insist their policies will reduce crime;
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:32A
The New Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Trailer!
Hitting theaters on December 16, the Guy Ritchie-directed film stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Fry and Rachel McAdams. Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr.) has always been the smartest man in the room...
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:25A
Experts question anti-prostitution laws at Pickton inquiry
Changing the law to remove criminal penalties and allow prostitutes to work indoors would change that, she said. "The current criminalization results in enforced displacement, which as we've seen, both pushes people away from health and support
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:07A
Over 1700 prisoners pardoned
During the preparation of the Criminal Code in 1999, this document included a number of new legal institutions, developed on the basis of criminal law theory. However, the experience of recent years showed that sometimes proposals that seem the best in
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:03A
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