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Australia facilitates timed diplomatic advantage for genocidal Sri Lanka
The spokesman also cited Commonwealth laws extending immunities to heads of state and heads of diplomatic missions. "Those immunities include personal inviolability, including from any form of arrest or detention and immunity from the criminal
Updated: 10/25/2011 11:29A
Yanukovych vetoes amendments to Housing Code
3825-VI amending Article 6 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (on the determination of the living and general area of real estate) and returned it with his proposals for revision by the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, reads a posting on the
Updated: 10/25/2011 11:23A
National Press Club Urges Administration to Reconsider Draft Rule on Freedom
Under the new Department of Justice proposal, in replying to a request for information under the freedom-of-information law, if the information is allowed to be withheld under certain statutory exceptions, then federal officials "will respond to the
Updated: 10/25/2011 11:19A
US infiltrates drug cartels throughout Mexico
Morris Panner, a former assistant US attorney who is currently a senior adviser at the Center for International Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School, said some of the recent cases involving informants highlight those issues @and demonstrate that the
Updated: 10/25/2011 11:18A
New York Times Op-Ed Advocates Letting Everybody Play 'Lawyer'
The general public understands that not everybody can practice medicine: performing surgeries, prescribing drugs, and even giving advice about surgeries and drugs are things best left to “professionals.” Or look at accountants.
Updated: 10/25/2011 11:18A
Field Fisher Waterhouse | UK antitrust update: more cases, more criminal
The intention is that material secured pursuant to any investigation will, where appropriate, be used in connection with both civil and criminal proceedings. One of the key drivers for the proposed changes to UK competition law was Ministers' concern
Updated: 10/25/2011 11:13A
Goldstein, Howe & Russell, P.C. | Today in the Community: October 25, 2011
A recent paper by Ian Hebert (forthcoming in the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law) examined the technological specifications of a number of location tracking devices over time (including those used in Karo and Knotts), catalogued the key variables,
Updated: 10/25/2011 11:13A
When the courts fail, we all lose
The judicial branch is much different today from 30 years ago, whether it is sentence guidelines, divorce proceedings, car crashes, bankruptcy, common-ground dispute resolution, public access to files on the Internet, among many others.
Updated: 10/25/2011 11:08A
Report: U.S Has Built Secret Network on Informants in Mexico
The New York Times reports US law enforcement agencies have secretly built up networks of Mexican informants that have allowed them to secretly infiltrate some of that country's most powerful criminal organizations. Typically Mexico is kept in the dark
Updated: 10/25/2011 11:03A
Why Is the International Criminal Court Silent on Gaddafi`s death?
by Alexander Mezyaev The killing of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has brought several crucial issues of international law to the forefront. Russia`s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for a thorough investigation in to Gaddafi`s death.
Updated: 10/25/2011 10:59A
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