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New laws to stop EU cross-border injustice
“The agreement is an important milestone in ensuring suspects enjoy fairer trial rights in criminal proceedings across the EU,” EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said in a statement. “The EU is making substantial progress in creating a single area
Updated: 11/25/2011 07:09A
Criminal illegal residents deported from SC
In the US justice system, suspects have rights to bond hearings and can't be held indefinitely, she said. Black, the ICE spokesman, said some people are deported before their criminal trials take place. The immigration officers take into account the
Updated: 11/25/2011 06:39A
Grieving Sunderland dad's dismay at legal bid by member of killer gang
Towers had been refused a review by the Criminal Case Review Commission (CCRC), but this has now been overturned after Towers appealed the decision. Mr Johnson said: “The CCRC is an independent body that examines criminal convictions and sentences.
Updated: 11/25/2011 06:31A
New Wisconsin law means viewing porn now can cost teacher's license
That is defined as conduct that is contrary to commonly accepted moral or ethical standards and that endangers the health, safety, welfare or education of any student. The new law makes clear that immoral conduct includes using the school's computer to
Updated: 11/25/2011 06:28A
After outcry, new booze law is effective
To mark the National Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims, the provincial government announced the new penalties have resulted in 40% fewer deaths on BC roads. Provincially, they estimate that 45 fewer people were killed as the result of drunk
Updated: 11/25/2011 06:22A
Criminal Charge Over Girls' Rail Deaths
Criminal proceedings are to be brought against Network Rail for breaches in health and safety law that led to the deaths of two teenage girls in 2005. The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) said on Friday their prosecution came after their reopened
Updated: 11/25/2011 06:22A
The most successful British criminal ever caught: Curtis Warren once made the
Warren, a former bouncer once described as the 'most successful British criminal who has ever been caught', was jailed in 1995 while living in the Netherlands after Dutch police found a haul of drugs and banknotes worth £125million.
Updated: 11/25/2011 06:10A
Canada doesn't need a law banning polygamy
Every time a woman gives birth in Canada, she has a one-in-15000 chance of dying. Should women be allowed to choose how often they incur that tiny risk? I ask this ridiculous question because
Updated: 11/25/2011 05:24A
Criminal action over rail deaths
The ORR said it had started criminal proceedings against NR for breaches of health and safety law which led to the deaths of the girls - Olivia Bazlinton, 14, and Charlotte Thompson, 13 - at Elsenham station crossing in Essex in December 2005.
Updated: 11/25/2011 05:19A
Punish the crime, not the institution under which it happened
This is a question of criminal law, not social policy. Marriages don't commit crimes; people do. It is the abuse itself, not the kind of relationship it happens in, that ought to be criminal. And indeed, is criminal. In buying into the notion that our
Updated: 11/25/2011 05:17A
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