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State Laws Fail to Protect Children from Sex Trafficking
The study, prepared in partnership with the American Center for Law and Justice, graded all 50 states on the strength of their sex trafficking laws. States that protected minors and prosecuted traffickers received the highest grades.
Updated: 12/01/2011 12:31P
Clarke in fresh set back over legal reforms
Kenneth Clarke faces fresh embarrassment over justice reforms after delaying key changes in legal aid. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor Plans to shake up the way criminal lawyers are paid have been put back by two years while changes in civil
Updated: 12/01/2011 12:27P
Legislation Providing Tougher Sentences for Murderers Comes Into Force
OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 12/01/11 -- The Honourable Rob Nicholson, PC, QC, MP for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and Robert Goguen, MP for Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe and Parliamentary Secretary to the
Updated: 12/01/2011 12:16P
Clarke is fresh set back over legal reforms
Kenneth Clarke faces fresh embarrassment over justice reforms after delaying key changes in legal aid. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor Plans to shake up the way criminal lawyers are paid have been put back by two years while changes in civil
Updated: 12/01/2011 12:08P
Hostile Witness
Texas' criminal justice system is first in more than executions. In 2007, Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins set up the nation's first conviction integrity unit, charged with investigating cases in which the wrong person might have been put behind
Updated: 12/01/2011 11:50A
Nanaimo trial lawyers rally, threaten strike
The delay in trials is growing in every registry in the province." Hertzberg said governments have a constitutional obligation to provide access to justice and to fund legal aid. "The courts have been commenting on how we're getting perilously close to
Updated: 12/01/2011 11:44A
Statement by the spokesperson of the EU High Representative Catherine Ashton
The EU reiterates its support for the International Criminal Court in its struggle against impunity and the promotion of a law-based international order. The EU believes that human rights violations must be pursued whoever is responsible,
Updated: 12/01/2011 11:41A
B.C. court ruling fuels DUI-law dissent
Alberta Justice Minister Verlyn Olson said yesterday his government is still committed to using the Criminal Code to prosecute motorists that provide a blood-alcohol reading over .08. Some legal and hospitality industry representatives believe
Updated: 12/01/2011 11:34A
Director of the SFO, Richard Alderman, recommends to a parliamentary committee
In my view, the corporations want certainty before the criminal justice system starts, and that is a legitimate request. On the other hand, we have to ensure that what we do has public and judicial support. My view is that that can be obtained only
Updated: 12/01/2011 11:31A
D.A.: Calif. Sheriff Didn't Break Law in Hells Angels Incident
"I will continue to vigorously protect the people of Lake county against this unmitigated threat of violence while Mr. Anderson fights for the rights of drug dealers, outlaw gangs and criminals," he said. The DA recommended that law enforcement leaders
Updated: 12/01/2011 11:30A
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