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Sport governance needs to improve following betting conspiracy convictions
Earlier today Mr Justice Cooke sentenced (9-page / 138KB PDF) former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt to 30 months in jail for conspiring to corruptly accept payments and conspiring to cheat at gambling. The judge also sentenced players Mohammad
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:47A
Glaxo to Pay $3 Billion in Avandia Settlement
a nationwide investigation of the company's sales and marketing practices for nine drugs from 1997 to 2004, led by the United States attorneys in Colorado and Massachusetts, and a Department of Justice investigation into Medicaid pricing practices.
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:45A
Westminster drops plan to ban soup runs
In a statement, Housing Justice said today: As Housing Justice convenes and organises the Soup Run Forum for groups involved in reaching out with food and help to those on the streets we, along with all involved in this work, were firmly opposed to
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:44A
Law 101: What the jury will have to decide
1. the commission of a lawful act with criminal negligence 2. failure to perform a legal duty where such failure was criminally negligent A lawful act is something the defendant does that does not break any laws. In this trial, the jury will be
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:32A
Goldstone walks alone on a bridge to nowhere
This, despite the fact that he had earlier been anointed as the distinguished jurist who admirably put aside his ethnic identity and personal affiliations when it came to carrying out his professional work as a specialist in international criminal law.
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:20A
Energy Companies Go On Trial for the Crime of Ecocide
Regular readers of Energy Tribune will recall that in September of this year I wrote about a bizarre concept being promoted by ex-president Clinton and current president Obama called “climate justice”. If you want to learn more about this
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:19A
PCB to recommend govt to pass law to curb corruption in sport
Lahore: In its bid to curb corruption in Pakistan cricket, the PCB will recommend to the government to consider passing a law in the country, which shall make corruption and fixing in sport a criminal offence. "After today we have decided that we will
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:01A
Criminal Court judges at odds with eachother, too: Stephanie Grace
When Councilwoman Susan Guidry, who chairs the criminal justice committee, asked whether Alarcon was revealing the details to anyone or continuing to argue that they're privileged, he claimed to be "doing both." He said he intends to produce the
Updated: 11/03/2011 09:40A
Text of bill on humanization of certain economic crimes inscludes nearly 260
Head of the Parliament stressed that the reform will continue to be carried out in close cooperation with the Venice Commission and the Council of Europe, where the expertise of the draft new Criminal Code of of Ukraine is under way.
Updated: 11/03/2011 09:39A
How Many More Victims?
By way of example, the British government which also has problems with violent repeat offenders, has introduced draft changes to their criminal law. In contrast to what is being proposed for Cayman, the draft British legislation actually appears to be
Updated: 11/03/2011 09:37A
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