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No Witness No Justice:
The British High Commission has been working with stakeholders in Barbados and the region to raise the importance of witnesses in criminal trials. The project, called “No Witness No Justice”, has two key aims: To encourage greater witness participation
Updated: 02/23/2012 09:18A
Sad little lost girl touched off media storm and became a public enemy
Her identity is protected by the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Last summer, Edmonton police had no such scruples. They got a court order, allowing them to name her, to circulate her picture to every media outlet, and to reveal that she was HIV positive.
Updated: 02/23/2012 09:15A
Sad little lost girl touched off media storm and became a public enemy
Her identity is protected by the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Last summer, Edmonton police had no such scruples. They got a court order, allowing them to name her, to circulate her picture to every media outlet, and to reveal that she was HIV positive.
Updated: 02/23/2012 09:15A
Letter: Domestic partnerships are enough
Marriage is defined that way by the Social Security Administration, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Defense, US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, USMC, Department of Veterans Affairs, federal criminal law, state criminal law, federal civil law,
Updated: 02/23/2012 09:04A
New anti-bikie laws lack due process
Like Canada, Great Britain, the United States, Austria, the Netherlands and Italy, Australia has introduced expansive law against organised crime and serious offending. Australia has also been a leader, with the South Australian law proudly proclaimed
Updated: 02/23/2012 08:38A
Supreme Court upholds law allowing prosecution of boys, and not girls, for
The appeal arose from charges brought against a 15-year-old boy under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl in Donegal. Under the 2006 Act "teenage boys can be held criminally liable for having sexual
Updated: 02/23/2012 08:34A
Another take on the "trans rights" bill
in the past decade, perhaps best exemplified by the passage last year through the House of Commons of Bill C-389, which added gender identity and gender expression to Canada's Human Rights Act and to the hate crime provisions of the Criminal Code.
Updated: 02/23/2012 08:23A
Another take on the 'trans rights' bill
which added gender identity and gender expression to Canada's Human Rights Act and to the hate crime provisions of the Criminal Code -- even thought the bill eventually died when the election was called before it was debated in the Senate.
Updated: 02/23/2012 08:23A
Supreme Court upholds ruling over underage sex
The Supreme Court has delivered a landmark judgment upholding the constitutionality of a law that allows teenage boys but not teenage girls to be prosecuted for having underage sex. The appeal arose from charges brought against a 15-year-old boy under
Updated: 02/23/2012 08:18A
Editorial: Adjusting the 'social host' law
Rachel was injured, and her parents sued Jessica Simpson and her father, citing civil liability under the state's “social host” law. That law, enacted in 2000, allows adults to face criminal charges for providing alcohol to underage drinkers in their
Updated: 02/23/2012 08:18A
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