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Legislation would overhaul BC laws for divorce, separation and child custody
Also, ensuring family court judges know of any current criminal or civil proceedings against the parties involved. - Replacing family law restraining orders with "protection orders" enforceable under the Criminal Code. - Giving judges new "conduct
Updated: 11/14/2011 09:20P
US anti-hacking law turns computer users into criminals
George Washington University Law School Professor Orin S. Kerr said he hopes the critique will spur changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a law that's frequently invoked against people who exceed authorized access of websites and computers.
Updated: 11/14/2011 09:18P
Rule of Law?
Wyoming Criminal Law: Title 6: Crimes And Offenses... Definitions (vii) “Person” includes an individual, partnership, corporation, joint stock company or any other association or entity, public or private; ... (ix) “Recklessly” is defined as the
Updated: 11/14/2011 08:41P
B.C. overhauls family law, puts children first
Common law couples will have property rights when they separate, and the legislation provides direction to establish who is the legal parent when children are born through the means of assisted reproduction. The changes will ensure that BC's family law
Updated: 11/14/2011 08:40P
Few Felons Should Have Guns
Such policies can encourage discriminatory criminal justice policies and worsen the mistrust many minority communities feel toward law enforcement. Public opinion agrees with the data: restoring Second Amendment rights to ex-convicts is a dangerous
Updated: 11/14/2011 08:40P
Big Consequences, Even for Small Crimes
Even if the individual had never had any previous contact with the criminal justice system, and never did again? The revocation and restoration of rights — not just the right to bear arms — is inconsistent from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and from
Updated: 11/14/2011 08:40P
Authorities not completely sold on new college assault measure
Bradley W. Finch also declined to express an opinion but noted the Virginia Tech police department is a nationally accredited law enforcement agency. “They are extremely capable and do a very thorough job investigating criminal cases,” he said.
Updated: 11/14/2011 08:29P
BC set to change law on family breakups
“We know that when women and children take steps to leave an abusive and high-risk relationship in the context of divorce and separation that's when they are most often killed, which was the case of Sunny Park here in Victoria and her son, Christian,
Updated: 11/14/2011 08:13P
NATO countries may face war crimes inquiry
NATO has said it was confident its actions were in compliance with international law and that the alliance is not worried by the possibility of a war crimes probe. “In the event we receive a request for information, NATO is prepared to assist in any
Updated: 11/14/2011 08:11P
Woman didn't break law by logging $20000 worth of personal calls on county phones
MILWAUKEE- She was supposed to be working as a jail nurse in downtown Milwaukee, but court documents show Sandra Virgo spent plenty of that time talking on the phone, long distance. Investigators say Virgo made nearly $20000 worth of
Updated: 11/14/2011 08:03P
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