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Law Enforcement Officials Turning to Facebook as a Crime Fighting Tool
New York law enforcement officials are using the information on Facebook profiles to apprehend criminal suspects. November 24, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Increased participation on social networking sites has resulted in law enforcement officers in New
Updated: 11/24/2011 04:44A
Drugs Haul Boosts Border Crime Focus
"The law enforcement agencies represented at the Seminar all face a common challenge in tackling criminal gangs. In building strategic partnerships to target cross border organised criminality we are strengthening our responses and working better to
Updated: 11/24/2011 04:21A
Charges could still be a long way off despite decision endorsing polygamy law
A BC Supreme Court judge ruled Wednesday that the harms associated with polygamy outweigh any claims to religious freedom, and therefore the Criminal Code section banning multiple marriage is valid. But the case appears destined for an appeal,
Updated: 11/24/2011 04:17A
ICC says it has sole competence in Libya cases
Libya's Interim Justice Minister Mohammed al-Allagui said talks toward a cooperation deal between the ICC and the new government in Tripoli were under way while maintaining that "all the guarantees and conditions are available in Libya for a fair trial
Updated: 11/24/2011 04:10A
Criminal court, Nov. 24
Miller also sentenced Brennan to pay costs, $50 to the Criminal Justice Enhancement Account, a $50 bench warrant fee and $1317.84 restitution, and submit a DNA sample to law enforcement authorities. "If (the police) didn't agree with this,
Updated: 11/24/2011 04:08A
BC court upholds ban on polygamy
VANCOUVER - BC Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Bauman decided Wednesday to uphold Canada's polygamy law, which makes multiple marriages illegal. In a 335-page ruling, the judge said that while the law “minimally impairs” the constitutional right of
Updated: 11/24/2011 04:06A
The masked rioter
It would amend Sections 65 and 66 of the Criminal Code, which outlines the penalties for participating in a riot or unlawful assembly. Currently, those who participate in a riot could face up to two years jail time, however, this new bill would
Updated: 11/24/2011 04:04A
Clarity comes to Bountiful
293 is intended to capture a union which is a marriage," wrote Chief Justice Robert Bauman. "That is made plain by the closing words of ss. 1(a), 'whether or not it is by law recognized as a binding form of marriage.
Updated: 11/24/2011 04:02A
BC's supreme court gets polygamy right
Yet before the release of BC Supreme Court Justice Robert Bauman's judgment on Wednesday, this country (one province of it, at least) was on the cusp of becoming a polygamous haven for the world's most backward religious sects.
Updated: 11/24/2011 04:02A
Tim Kendal Wins Market Recognition as a Leading London Barrister
Chambers and Partners is the main text ranking lawyers, law firms and barristers' chambers. The November 2011 update confirmed the rise of 2 Bedford row chambers for criminal law services in the UK capital. Called to the bar in 1985, Mr Kendal's many
Updated: 11/24/2011 03:57A
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