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Criminal record law requirements become effective May 4
Significant changes to Massachusetts criminal record laws implemented by the Massachusetts Criminal Offender Record Information Reform Act will become effective on May 4, 2012. The law, which was passed in August 2010, has become well known for its
Updated: 03/20/2012 07:36A
Implementation of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry Recommendations
The findings were the result of months of intense work by a team led by Bassiouni and comprising the world's leading international human rights and international criminal law experts, including the former UN Special Rapporteur on torture and the first
Updated: 03/20/2012 07:31A
Call for TV license evasion decriminalisation
pay for a television licence to no longer be considered as a criminal offence. “For almost 20 years we have been calling for changes in the law so that non-payment of TV licences is decriminalised,” claimed a spokesman for the Magistrates' Society.
Updated: 03/20/2012 07:24A
SC raps govt, says can't be casual about gay issue
The bench also expressed concern that during the last 60 years the Parliament has not considered amending Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, despite recommendations for it by the Law Commission. "The highest legislature doesn't have time to consider
Updated: 03/20/2012 07:19A
Call for license evasion decriminalisation
pay for a television licence to no longer be considered as a criminal offence. “For almost 20 years we have been calling for changes in the law so that non-payment of TV licences is decriminalised,” claimed a spokesman for the Magistrates' Society.
Updated: 03/20/2012 07:14A
Competition And Markets Authority – BIS Announces Reforms Of Competition Law
It has the ability to investigate the cartel offence under criminal law. It conducts second-phase reviews of mergers following an OFT reference. It conducts investigations of markets on reference following an OFT market study (ie another form of
Updated: 03/20/2012 07:11A
Canadian Government Restricts Availability Of Conditional Sentences ("House
In the Bureau's view, holding corporate executives and employees personally responsible for anticompetitive conduct is an effective way to deter such behaviour. In an address to the Canadian Bar Association's Annual Competition Law Fall Conference in
Updated: 03/20/2012 07:11A
FORMER PENSION BOARD SIX WIN RULING
While the city has had to pay out millions in fees to defendants who were named in civil lawsuits, this suit was different in that it dealt with costs for defending criminal cases. State law generally requires cities to pay legal bills for employees
Updated: 03/20/2012 07:09A
Advance legal columnist: Traffic court judge's record is 'disgraceful'
By Daniel Leddy Last Tuesday, the Advance, citing statistics obtained by the New York Post, reported that Brian Levine, the senior administrative law judge at the Traffic Violations Bureau here, had the highest conviction rate in the state for both
Updated: 03/20/2012 06:59A
A Run Of Bad Luck
California has some of the strongest animal welfare laws in the nation. Section 597(b) of the California Penal Code says that anyone who “overdrives, overloads, drives while overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance,
Updated: 03/20/2012 06:30A
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