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Canada's ban on polygamy upheld
Chief Justice Robert Bauman of the BC Supreme Court concluded Canada's 121-year-old polygamy law is valid as long as it isn't used to prosecute child brides, and he suggests it should be interpreted that way. "This case is essentially about harm.
Updated: 11/23/2011 02:06P
Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi 'could be put on trial in two months'
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the former Libyan dictator, could be put on trial in as little as two months, the justice minister has told The Daily Telegraph. By Ruth Sherlock in Tripoli and Richard Spencer in Zintan The man once considered heir
Updated: 11/23/2011 02:01P
Exclusive: MF Global Workers Likely Violated Securities Laws
Investment bankers who found the now famous co-mingled client accounts leading to the disappearance of client money when examining MF Global's books in the days before its bankruptcy chalked it up to errors stemming from sloppy bookkeeping as the firm
Updated: 11/23/2011 02:00P
Prosecutor views gruesome site of alleged Libyan massacre
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, then pledged to help bring clarity to such unsolved crimes remaining from Libya's civil war. Earlier he announced that the court, based in The Hague, Netherlands, will not challenge
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:55P
Jonathan Kay on Canada's anti-polygamy law: The BC Supreme Court gets it right
The litigation was formally entitled “Reference re: Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada,” a law that bans “any form of polygamy.” Justice Bauman rightly upheld the law — except insofar as it criminalizes children who are married by polygamous
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:54P
B.C. judge rules religious freedom doesn't protect polygamy
First, does the Criminal Code section banning polygamy violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? And if not, does the criminal definition of polygamy require evidence of abuse? To the first question, Bauman said the law does indeed violate the
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:53P
Religious freedom doesn't protect polygamy, B.C. court says in landmark case
First, does the Criminal Code section banning polygamy violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? And if not, does the criminal definition of polygamy require evidence of abuse? To the first question, Bauman said the law does indeed violate the
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:49P
Polygamy in BC
The mainstream Mormon church renounced the practice in 1890 1990-1992: The RCMP looks into allegations of polygamy in Bountiful and sends a report to BC's criminal justice branch. The branch concludes Canada's polygamy law - Section 293 of the Criminal
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:47P
Polygamy law valid, B.C. court rules
Critics of the law, including Bountiful residents, argued the law violates the right to religious freedom and any abuses should be targeted using other criminal laws. The judge in the case has a range of options, including striking down the law
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:43P
BC judge upholds Canada's polygamy laws
VANCOUVER The harms that polygamy inflicts on women and children outweigh any claims to religious freedom, a BC judge said Wednesday in a landmark case that is almost certainly destined for the Supreme Court of Canada. Chief Justice Robert Bauman of
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:40P
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