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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights
And yet, our criminal justice system has failed on every count: public safety, fairness and cost-effectiveness. Across the country, the criminal justice reform conversation is heating up. Each week, we feature our some of the most exciting and relevant
Updated: 04/09/2012 09:57A
Segal eager to join defence firm following 'good run' at AG
'My roots are in criminal law, but I'll be happy to work with whoever will have me beyond that,' says Murray Segal. “It's about the people who work there, the people who access the courts, the victims,” says Segal, who will soon be leaving his current
Updated: 04/09/2012 09:38A
Lying About a Missing Child a Felony
Known as “Caylee's Law,” the measure (HB 37) was among a handful of criminal justice bills signed into law Friday by the governor that included measures on human trafficking, cop killers and paying funeral expenses for children who die while in state
Updated: 04/09/2012 09:24A
Lying About a Missing Child a Felony
Known as “Caylee's Law,” the measure (HB 37) was among a handful of criminal justice bills signed into law Friday by the governor that included measures on human trafficking, cop killers and paying funeral expenses for children who die while in state
Updated: 04/09/2012 09:24A
Web of Laws Creating Hosts of 'Accidental Criminals'
By John Jessup WASHINGTON -- With so many real-life and dramatic depictions of criminals on TV, even a casual observer knows a key element for a guilty conviction is the intent to commit a crime. In the world of law, that concept is defined as "mens
Updated: 04/09/2012 08:44A
Ruling puts test for Legal Aid on trial
“While the applicant took some courses on philosophy of law, he has no training, education or background in criminal procedure, evidence or substantive criminal law,” Justice McArthur wrote. “He also earned his degree in 1978, before the advent of the
Updated: 04/09/2012 08:08A
Mixed Reactions As Legislation On Abortion Goes to Senate
In the draft penal code, article 165 absolves criminal liability for a woman who aborts her pregnancy and a medical doctor who helps a woman to abort provided that four particular conditions are met. The conditions include; when a woman is pregnant as
Updated: 04/09/2012 05:50A
The Decision to Prosecute
She is presently also a Senior Lecturer at Hugh Wooding Law School (now part time); author of a criminal practice and procedure textbook used in all Caribbean law schools; former independent senator (for 8 years); and Former Magistrate, Senior State
Updated: 04/09/2012 05:02A
Lawyer fined by law society for breaching a court order
Brian John Kirkhope, of the local firm Manning and Kirkhope, has been fined $4500 for registering a mortgage on a divorce client's home in favour of his law firm in contravention of an outstanding Supreme Court restraining order.
Updated: 04/09/2012 04:27A
Pakistani daily laments acid attacks
This form of assault has taken such root in Pakistani society that it was felt necessary to specifically criminalise it through the Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2011," the editorial added. Saying that acid crime in Pakistan has been in the news quite
Updated: 04/09/2012 02:12A
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