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Crowded field for appeals court justice awaits voters
The role of a judge in today's court, she said, should be one of justice and compassion. Although there are "winners" and "losers," everyone needs to be heard and understood, she said. Justice, she added, is about serving, not ruling.
Updated: 03/03/2012 07:34A
Security officers tricked into fitting electronic tag to criminal's friend
Maidstone Crown Court heard how 36-year-old Pace had been ordered to wear the tag for two months after being handed a community order by JPs last summer for perverting the course of justice. But after being sent home to Cliffe, Kent, to wait for G4
Updated: 03/03/2012 06:50A
Rehab versus prison for criminals
There are courts for people up on gun charges and courts for veterans returning from service with post-traumatic stress and addictions. In New Zealand, we've started down the same road. There's a specialist youth treatment court in Auckland for
Updated: 03/03/2012 06:44A
Kleinig: McGee negligent, not criminal
A person who shoots someone, with the intention to kill or wound them, would never be considered fit and proper to practise law. But through all the hearings involving Mr McGee, no evidence has ever emerged that his actions were deliberate or
Updated: 03/03/2012 06:41A
His lies were shameful, not criminal
When Congress passed a law in 2005 making it a crime to falsely claim to have been honored for military service, lawmakers called it the Stolen Valor Act. The title is misleading. Nothing has been stolen. But if the law is upheld by the US Supreme
Updated: 03/03/2012 06:27A
His lies were shameful, not criminal
When Congress passed a law in 2005 making it a crime to falsely claim to have been honored for military service, lawmakers called it the Stolen Valor Act. The title is misleading. Nothing has been stolen. But if the law is upheld by the US Supreme
Updated: 03/03/2012 06:27A
Governor signs priority health care bill into law
The rewritten bill still allows release of such records for criminal justice purposes, ordered by courts or allowed with the consent of the applicant or licenseholder.The House approved the bill on a 54-6 vote. House Bill 4026: would expand the Oregon
Updated: 03/03/2012 06:17A
Kashmiri teen's trauma exposes flawed Indian justice
Shah's lost years, which he describes as “pain and agony”, point to two major failings in India's dysfunctional criminal justice system. Administrative delays mean suspects charged with non-bailable offences must often wait years before the evidence
Updated: 03/03/2012 06:07A
Politician gets drunk, says .05 is right thing to do
Although he would not be criminally drunk under the federal .08 Criminal Code statute, he would still have had his car towed and received a three-day licence suspension under the province's impending new law, which has been passed but not yet
Updated: 03/03/2012 04:52A
Hate crimes bill to be moved on Monday
If approved, the bill would amend a number of articles in the Criminal Code and an article in the Press Act to ensure that crimes motivated by the victims' sexual orientation or gender identity would be considered aggravated by law.
Updated: 03/03/2012 04:28A
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