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Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading amended
At Penal Code level, the dispatch proposes to expand and define the present criminal offences of insider trading and market price manipulation as major violations of market abuse. Even more substantial changes are planned at the supervisory law level:
Updated: 12/13/2011 11:27A
Liberia: Sustainable Democracy Threatened
Rising illiteracy, appealing mob violence and a criminal justice system incapable of ensuring order are amongst factors to climbing levels of impunity. Sustainable democracies have in-built rules of engagement based on the law.
Updated: 12/13/2011 11:24A
Kenya AG Confident Over Bashir Appeal
He said the judgement was evaluated against international law, the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court, the Kenyan statute domesticating the treaty and the Constitution. "The State Law Office is satisfied that a sitting head
Updated: 12/13/2011 11:07A
How We Think About Rape: Change at the FBI Is Only One Step in the Right Direction
With regard to criminal law—the ultimate guide on what society believes is "right" and "wrong"—our moral compass has been equally obsolete. The US Model Penal Code, which was adopted in 1962 by the American Law Institute to provide guidance for state
Updated: 12/13/2011 11:05A
Nation's High Court to review Arizona immigration law
That means the high court will have to look at SB 1070 itself and determine exactly how far states can go in enacting their own immigration laws. Brewer contends the US Constitution does let states play a role. "Arizona did not act in haste,
Updated: 12/13/2011 11:03A
EDITORIAL - Emerging stronger
That's what the nation can hope for in the first-ever impeachment of a chief justice: a stronger criminal justice system, and a stronger system of checks and balances among the three branches of government. Like the ombudsman, a chief justice can be
Updated: 12/13/2011 11:02A
Crackdown comes for Texas Mexican Mafia
The name of the two-year Federal Task Force investigation is Operation Merecido, focusing on the top leadership levels of the prison gang -- which has expanded criminal operations outside of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in communities
Updated: 12/13/2011 11:02A
Justice Committee 2
Peter Duff, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Aberdeen, told the committee he agreed with Lord Carloway that corroboration "could go" and stressed there were a number of "corroboration fiddles" used to get round the law and there was
Updated: 12/13/2011 10:51A
UN declares Fatou Bensouda new ICC Chief Prosecutor
The United Nations has formally elected Fatou Bensouda as the International Criminal Court's new Chief Prosecutor. Bensouda's was the only name put to the 120 member states in the election at the UN headquarters and the fact that an African will become
Updated: 12/13/2011 10:50A
Victims of Gun Violence, Police, Health and Safety Experts Applaud the
(2010) Brief Submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security Concerning Bill C-391, the Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Firearms Act. Qubec: Institut national de sant publique.
Updated: 12/13/2011 10:46A
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