Latest Criminal Law News

Adverse possession: Squatters look for cover under centuries-old law
Changing the locks on or breaking into a home you don't own can be criminal. Also, the owner of the property needs only to pay taxes on the property once during the seven-year period to have the claim withdrawn. Until recently, it's been a rare
Updated: 03/17/2012 10:30P

Men's Lacrosse lose to Hope College 19-1
Created in 2006 by students at the London School of Economics, the ICCSN aims to promote the work of the ICC and increase knowledge of international criminal law. Alma joins Duke University School of Law, the University of Cambridge and other
Updated: 03/17/2012 09:57P

Debate on Statute of limitations: Should it exist or be extended?
However, he said in order to prevent the dropping of cases in the future without the public's sense of justice being satisfied, the statute of limitations in certain criminal offenses, such as acts of terrorism, coup attempts and murder,
Updated: 03/17/2012 08:50P

Sentence Violates Human Rights Law
The five men were convicted of treason under Article 106 of the Indonesian Criminal Code. While the treason laws are intended to prosecute serious crimes against the state, alleged members of the armed resistance are rarely if ever brought to trial in
Updated: 03/17/2012 08:00P

Two held guilty of gang rape, murder
The court held both guilty under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 pertaining to gang rape, murder, criminal conspiracy and abduction. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on Monday. Borate was a cab driver dropping and picking
Updated: 03/17/2012 07:46P

Spy Chief And Torturer For Qaddafi Is Captured
TRIPOLI, Libya — Abdullah el-Senussi, the former intelligence chief and brother-in-law of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was arrested Saturday at an airport in Mauritania, the authorities there said, in the most significant capture of a former official of
Updated: 03/17/2012 07:19P

Setting aside the law
Shandler, who made aliya immediately after completing his international criminal law degree at Melbourne University, said he was called up to serve in the IDF for six months, but decided to stay longer and chose to serve on the front line because there
Updated: 03/17/2012 07:08P

KWQC-TV6 News and Weather For The Quad Cities - Vatican launches criminal
own legal system of criminal and administrative sanctions - has come at an exceedingly delicate time for the Vatican, which is seeking to win European approval for its efforts to ensure its finances are transparent and that its laws to fight money
Updated: 03/17/2012 06:52P

KWQC-TV6 News and Weather For The Quad Cities - Vatican launches criminal
own legal system of criminal and administrative sanctions - has come at an exceedingly delicate time for the Vatican, which is seeking to win European approval for its efforts to ensure its finances are transparent and that its laws to fight money
Updated: 03/17/2012 06:52P

Baird warns of Russian 'homosexual propaganda' law
The warning comes after the governor of St. Petersburg signed a law that makes it a criminal offence to publicize acts of sodomy, bisexualism or lesbianism. The city says the law, which comes into effect Saturday, is designed to protect children.
Updated: 03/17/2012 06:42P