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Don't target gun enthusiasts - make drugs legal
One is to abolish the rule that conceals evidence of a pattern of criminal behaviour. The other concerns the right of silence. As Justice Ken Marks showed, the ''right'' derives from a lie by the first legal academic, William Blackstone.
Updated: 01/22/2012 09:29P
Ending PIP fraud requires law enforcement and better laws
PIP fraud — a nearly $1 billion problem for Florida insurance consumers — also is becoming a major problem for law enforcement. The burden on law enforcement increases each year as criminal enterprises step up their efforts to organize staged accidents
Updated: 01/22/2012 08:39P
Virginia's Ill Conceived Reforms
The Virginia legislature has passed laws allowing law enforcement to use forfeited property that hasn't been sold after it was forfeited. The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services Forfeited Asset Sharing Program Manual advises Virginia law
Updated: 01/22/2012 07:37P
Paterno death will have minimal effect on criminal, civil cases
"Obviously, you're taking away a great deal of the high-profile nature of this case, because it deals with Joe Paterno's football program," said Jeffrey Lindy, a criminal defense lawyer involved in a clergy-abuse case in Philadelphia.
Updated: 01/22/2012 07:26P
Call for prostitution legislation to be updated
They were charged under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 which makes it an offence for a person “who in a street or public place” solicits a person for the purposes of prostitution. However, this does not cover the common situation where
Updated: 01/22/2012 07:24P
Conference on criminal law
The Bar Council is holding a conference on criminal law next Saturday, from 9.30am to 1pm, in the Distillery Building, Church Street, Dublin. Speakers include Aileen Donnelly SC, Remy Farrell SC, Sen Guerin BL, barristers Shane Costello,
Updated: 01/22/2012 07:24P
Legal experts say Joe Paterno's death will not affect Jerry Sandusky cases
But legal experts said his death will have little or no effect on the criminal or civil cases to come out of the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal. "Obviously, you're taking away a great deal of the high-profile nature of this case, because it deals
Updated: 01/22/2012 07:21P
Paterno death will have little effect Sandusky cases
But legal experts said his death will have little or no effect on the criminal or civil cases to come out of the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal. "Obviously, you're taking away a great deal of the high-profile nature of this case, because it deals
Updated: 01/22/2012 07:14P
From death sentence to life in prison to freedom
Clemency cases in Singapore are rare but a lawyer, Mr Amolat Singh - who was not involved in this case - said the judgment illustrates a "cardinal principle in criminal law." He explained that the principle is that "all changes in criminal law imposing
Updated: 01/22/2012 07:00P
Career switch at 75
By JANE SIMS, The London Free Press Justice John L. Getliffe of the Ontario Court of Justice has reached the mandatory retirement age of 75, so he's leaving the bench and re-starting his criminal law practice. (MIKE HENSEN, The London Free Press)
Updated: 01/22/2012 06:42P
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