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Wisconsin Business Law Initiative puts emphasis on critical practical skills
The university's law school isn't anti-business, Lipson said, and it does a lot more than try to help the disenfranchised and free the wrongly convicted. "There's this idea that we're focused only on the rights of criminal defendants, or that we have
Updated: 12/06/2011 09:18A
NJ Attorney General's double-dippers retire for 1 day, get pensions and salaries
Hess is one of 23 double-dipping investigators and supervisors who work for Attorney General Paula T. Dow and her Division of Criminal Justice, a New Jersey Watchdog investigation revealed. In addition to their salaries, they draw pensions as retired
Updated: 12/06/2011 08:37A
365 files complaint against TOT for granting unfair contract
365 Communication filed a complaint against four members of TOT's 3G broadband committee with the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), accusing them of breaching the criminal law by granting unfair contracts to partners in the private sector.
Updated: 12/06/2011 08:36A
2010 homicide rate drops to 44-year low
December 06, 2011, 01:40 AM AP SAN FRANCISCO — California's homicide rate dropped last year to its lowest level in more than four decades, according to a report by the state department of justice. There were 4.7 reported homicides for every 100000
Updated: 12/06/2011 08:12A
Andy Moyse arrested
In terms of the search warrant, the police purport that they have reasonable grounds to believe that MMPZ officers may have acted in breach of section 31 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, that is, “publishing or communicating false
Updated: 12/06/2011 08:09A
Law chief Greg Lyon warns on OPI vacuum
Mr Lyon's comments add to that pressure and follow the Law Institute's intervention last week and comments by another leading criminal lawyer, Rob Stary. Mr Stary, who acted for gangland killer Carl Williams, told The Weekend Australian there was an
Updated: 12/06/2011 08:09A
Transitional Justice, Reconciliation and Sustainable Peace in Libya
It is impossible to discuss transitional justice in a country like Libya without reference to certain key concepts, which are all interrelated, two of which are reconciliation and sustainable peace, notes Mohamed Eljarh. The issue of transitional
Updated: 12/06/2011 08:03A
DoJ lied about Fast and Furious in letter to Congress
But because the incumbent president is a Democrat, the mainstream media is yawning and pretending that serious crimes have not been committed by senior law enforcement officials, and that the carnage of Mexican and American victims matters not a whit.
Updated: 12/06/2011 08:02A
23 men convicted in prostitution inquiry
All 23 entered a guilty plea to a breach of Section 7 of the Criminal Law Sexual offences Act 1993. The court heard that on dates between 11 November and 3 December last, at a number of locations in Limerick, including Mallow street, Barrington street,
Updated: 12/06/2011 08:00A
Amid Calls for His Resignation, Arpaio Apologizes for the Mishandling over 400
"The picture emerging — no follow-up, no investigation, no prosecution, no justice and a shield of silence after the fact — is not how we conduct law enforcement in this country," Grijalva said. "Enforcing laws against violent crime,
Updated: 12/06/2011 07:59A
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