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Department of Justice Certifies Crime Prevention Program for Mentally Ill
LAURA'S LAW allows courts to order mental health departments to provide treatment to certain people: those with serious mental illness who are likely to become dangerous or gravely disabled without treatment and who have a history of violence and
Updated: 03/27/2012 07:33A
Criminalising squatting is the real crime
When it does, the Law Society makes clear “the current law is sufficient to protect homeowners”, a point endorsed by the Metropolitan Police and 160 leading legal experts in an open letter to the Government. Squatting is not a social crime – it tends
Updated: 03/27/2012 07:24A
A red light district for Toronto? From Nevada to New Zealand, models for
As Cossman points out, Monday's court decision partially removes the criminal law's involvement in the sex trade, but does not dictate what will replace it, decisions that will largely decide, if the ruling is upheld, how prostitution is integrated
Updated: 03/27/2012 07:10A
Minister Ergin: No more closure of newspapers with new judicial reform
The judicial reform package introduces nearly 100 amendments to the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), the Code on Criminal Procedure (CMK), the Counterterrorism Law (TMK) and the Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law. Ergin said the package will abolish a TMK
Updated: 03/27/2012 06:57A
Political Jurisdiction in the United States
In both countries the upper house may make use of all the existing penal laws of the nation to punish the delinquents. In the United States as well as in Europe one branch of the legislature is authorized to impeach and the other to judge: the House of
Updated: 03/27/2012 06:52A
Organized Crime Members Convicted in Scheme to Recruit Alien Sex Workers
Dallas, TX (Law Firm Newswire) March 27, 2012 – Two members of a New York organized crime family pleaded guilty in February 2012 to racketeering and conspiracy charges arising out of their involvement in the recruiting of illegal immigrants to work in
Updated: 03/27/2012 06:44A
Child Soldiers: Justice, Myths, and Prevention
The criminal law presents the allure of the quick-fix — if a couple of evildoers are convicted, the job is done, and justice has been achieved. Such closure, however, is premature. Justice entails much more. It requires reintegrating child soldiers
Updated: 03/27/2012 06:41A
Supreme Court Expands the Scope of Right to Effective Legal Assistance
The sharply divided 5-4 decision of the court was decided by Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the liberals in two cases and the majority found the right to effective counsel applicable to informal plea bargain negotiations between criminal defendants
Updated: 03/27/2012 06:04A
Help sought for soldier's legal bills
Bales joins other soldiers accused of crimes in combat zones whose families and supporters have sought public help to defray substantial legal fees. At least three families of Lewis-McChord soldiers put on trial for murdering Afghan civilians for sport
Updated: 03/27/2012 05:55A
Paper could have to justify any disclosure of personal data contained in
A data protection law expert has warned, though, that Glasgow's Sunday Herald will have to be sure that it can demonstrate the public interest in relation to each identified person and that the redactions it has made prevent the identification of
Updated: 03/27/2012 05:42A
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