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Change law to allow people to record
Illinois' eavesdropping law could make unwitting criminals out of honest citizens attempting to document police misconduct. Legislation to remedy that situation received House committee approval last week. House Bill 3944 would permit people to record
Updated: 02/12/2012 08:08A
Student on hunger strike
Activist Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, the former editor of two now-defunct ''red shirt'' magazines, was arrested last April and charged under article 112 of the Thai criminal code over two articles deemed critical of the royals. His son Panitan, a law
Updated: 02/12/2012 08:04A
HC rejects woman's plea to summon in-laws in dowry case
Refusing to set aside the orders of the lower courts which did not issue summons to her in-laws, Kait said her father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law were living in a separate flat in the same building and cannot be made to face criminal trial
Updated: 02/12/2012 07:05A
Web creeper law risks our privacy
Entitled "an Act to enact the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act and to amend the Criminal Code and others Acts," the law would require Internet service providers (ISPs) to install equipment that would allow them to
Updated: 02/12/2012 06:49A
Let's not break the law
The President's lecture about how the foreign currency deposit law was not meant to protect criminals is appreciated, but he used the wrong context. There is an anti-money laundering act in this country and there are ample safeguards to ensure that the
Updated: 02/12/2012 06:48A
Growing calls for defensive homicide review
CRIME victims and domestic violence lobby groups have led growing calls for the abolition of the state's defensive homicide law. But lawyers stood firm in support of the law, which critics say has been used to get lighter sentences for violent men
Updated: 02/12/2012 06:11A
Daman Takes Legal Action to Curb Health Insurance Fraud
Abu Dhabi, 12 February 2012: The National Health Insurance Company- Daman today announced the referral of a number of cases to the Criminal Court of Abu Dhabi on reasonable suspicion of fraud. The legal action is part of a series of measures launched
Updated: 02/12/2012 05:36A
Anonymous tips help law enforcement solve crimes
When that kind of evidence is left behind at a crime scene, it makes a detective's job easier. But more often it's information from witnesses and from the public that helps law enforcement officers solve crimes. “It may be one little piece that helps
Updated: 02/12/2012 05:00A
Thailand: “Reform the World's Harshest Lse Majest Law”
Several groups, scholars, and activists in Thailand are demanding the amendment of Article 112 of the country's Criminal Code or the lese majeste law, which forbids anyone from insulting the King and members of the Royal Family.
Updated: 02/12/2012 05:00A
The Bullies Who Will Need Protecting: An Interpretation of New Jersey's "Anti
If and when the law is actualized, what policies will schools adopt to deter and punish offenders of "harassment, intimidation, and bullying?" Will schools immediately enlist the help of law enforcement who will press criminal charges or will the
Updated: 02/12/2012 04:40A
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