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AIDS Action Now day of action on HIV criminalization
AIDS Action Now took to the streets of Toronto on Feb 6 as part of a Day of Action ahead of the Feb 8 Supreme Court of Canada hearing of two landmark cases about HIV, sex and criminal law. “Now people who are HIV are supposed to disclose our status if
Updated: 02/08/2012 01:06P
Ten things Massachusetts employers should know about upcoming changes in the
“Criminal offender record information” will have essentially the same meaning. records and data in any communicable form compiled by a Massachusetts criminal justice agency which concern an identifiable individual and relate to the nature or
Updated: 02/08/2012 12:41P
Crowley, Brooklyn DA Rally For Sanitation Workers
Councilmember Elizabeth S. Crowley, chair of the Criminal Justice Committee, introduced a City Council Resolution calling on the state legislature to pass a pending bill that would make assaulting a city sanitation worker assault in the second degree,
Updated: 02/08/2012 12:26P
Church no longer runs court
Practically the common law is a Christian institution. Formerly there were the civil actions in contract and tort and trespass etc, and criminal laws and penalties for breach of the King's peace - and latterly "traffic offences" of furious riding and
Updated: 02/08/2012 12:02P
review: Law & Order: Legacies
If that opening statement sounds familiar to you (albeit slightly paraphrased), then you are the target market for Law & Order: Legacies. For anyone suffering withdrawal from their weekly fix of crimes “ripped from the headlines” since the 2010
Updated: 02/08/2012 11:58A
review: Law & Order: Legacies
If that opening statement sounds familiar to you (albeit slightly paraphrased), then you are the target market for Law & Order: Legacies. For anyone suffering withdrawal from their weekly fix of crimes “ripped from the headlines” since the 2010
Updated: 02/08/2012 11:58A
Crime Stoppers and My Virtual Neighbor Partner to Protect Citizens
Crime Stoppers of Houston's mission is to solve and prevent serious crime in the Greater Houston area in partnership with citizens, media and the criminal justice system. Through their telephone tip line, 713-222-TIPS, information about criminal
Updated: 02/08/2012 11:23A
Turkey: Complaint filed against Twitter user alias @allah
Tuncer, who presents television programmes dedicated to Ramadan, as the website Bianet reports, has said that ''the correspondence between the person called @allah (cc) and his readers'' violates article 216/3 of Turkish Criminal Law on ''denigration
Updated: 02/08/2012 11:15A
Trial of priest for buggery halted
Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman described as 'inexplicable' the failure of the Oireachtas to include the necessary saving provisions in the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 allowing prosecutions for pre-1993 buggery offences. A Supreme Court majority
Updated: 02/08/2012 10:25A
Norton Rose Group | Proposed directors' liability reforms
in recent years about the consistency and fairness of these laws, which unnecessarily create significant burdens for corporate officers, particularly their own personal compliance, as well as recurring issues of criminal justice and equality.
Updated: 02/08/2012 10:06A
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