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Legal Reform In China: Quelling Tibetan Unrest? - Analysis
There is an urgent need for genuine legal reform, but will the revised criminal procedure code help quell Tibetan unrest? By Irene Chan SINCE MARCH 2011, 22 counts of self-immolations and large-scale protests by Tibetan Buddhist clergy have taken place
Updated: 03/19/2012 01:07P
Controversial Sexual Predator Law Has Resulted In Only 15 Commitments
Despite the federal government's effort to detain him indefinitely as a "sexually dangerous person," under New York law, he isn't required to register as a sex offender. About 2000 people a year end up in federal prison for sex crimes,
Updated: 03/19/2012 01:06P
Austin police use efficient measures to manage SXSW crimes
Codes, a dance music DJ, begins the SXSW showcase presented by AM Only, an electronic music booking agency, at Mohawk on Friday night. The 10-day film, interactive, and music festival came to a close during the early morning hours of today.
Updated: 03/19/2012 01:03P
The Practice: A Lawyer to Emulate — Marc Randazza
Or are you just hoping your SEO hack can create 47 websites for you, with crappy blog posts full of links in the hopes you can “appear” as the go-to lawyer for First Amendment law? The same question goes for family law, employment law, criminal law
Updated: 03/19/2012 12:49P
Gwisai found guilty of inciting violence
Harare provincial Magistrate Kudakwashe Jarabini found Gwisai and six others guilty of conspiracy to commit a crime under Section 188 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act. The UZ lecturer was convicted together with Antoinette Choto,
Updated: 03/19/2012 12:42P
Law shielding royal family splits Thais
At present, someone can be jailed for up to 15 years if convicted of lese majeste, which is part of the legal code relating to national security. Anyone can make an allegation. Plans to alter article 112 of the criminal code would reduce the maximum
Updated: 03/19/2012 12:34P
Odium Surplus/Odium Deficit
The state of Texas even agreed in one of the court challenges to the law that it “brands lesbians and gay men as criminals and thereby legally sanctions discrimination against them in a variety of ways unrelated to the criminal law.
Updated: 03/19/2012 12:27P
Brazilian Prosecutors Try to Bypass Amnesty Laws to Prosecute Human Rights Crimes
The work of Justia de Transicin (Transitional Justice), a group made up of public prosecutors from several Brazilian states, is based on the concept that forced disappearances committed during the 1964-1985 dictatorship are ongoing crimes.
Updated: 03/19/2012 12:24P
Criminal cases can't be quashed in a casual manner: SC
PTI | 09:03 PM,Mar 19,2012 New Delhi, Mar 19 (PTI) The Supreme Court today said the courts cannot quash investigations in criminal offences in a casual manner as it would amount to miscarriage of justices and obstruction to the process of law.
Updated: 03/19/2012 12:24P
Criminal cases can't be quashed in a casual manner: SC
PTI | 09:03 PM,Mar 19,2012 New Delhi, Mar 19 (PTI) The Supreme Court today said the courts cannot quash investigations in criminal offences in a casual manner as it would amount to miscarriage of justices and obstruction to the process of law.
Updated: 03/19/2012 12:24P
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