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Monti Tackles Italy Corruption as Scandals Taint Parties
The Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption, known as GRECO, called on Italy yesterday to amend its criminal code in areas such as party financing and corruption penalties. That came after Umberto Bossi resigned as head of the Northern
Updated: 04/12/2012 05:34A
Monti Tackles Italy Corruption as Scandals Taint Parties
The Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption, known as GRECO, called on Italy yesterday to amend its criminal code in areas such as party financing and corruption penalties. That came after Umberto Bossi resigned as head of the Northern
Updated: 04/12/2012 05:34A
Murder Charge Against George Zimmerman Surprises Legal Experts
"It seems like an enormous swing to be able go from not feeling you have enough evidence to arrest him, to charging him with essentially as high as you can charge him in second-degree murder," Richard Hornsby, a criminal defense attorney in Orlando,
Updated: 04/12/2012 05:13A
Capsticks | Squatting – a criminal offence?
This is addressed in part by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill which proposes a new criminal offence of squatting in residential property. While there is some debate about the extent to which the police will have the time or
Updated: 04/12/2012 05:10A
No crime in Goldman Sachs code case
A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer who took the investment bank's confidential source code for its high-speed trading system may have violated his obligations to the company, but the act wasn't a crime under the laws for which he was convicted,
Updated: 04/12/2012 05:06A
Italy: Monti shifts to corruption, the 'hidden tax''
The Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption, known as GRECO, called on Italy yesterday to amend its criminal code in areas such as party financing and corruption penalties. That came after Umberto Bossi resigned as head of the Northern
Updated: 04/12/2012 04:50A
Uzbek experts call for prosecution of journalists
An Uzbek centre for monitoring mass media has said that journalist Yelena Bondar's statements violate not only the Administrative Code but the Criminal Code as well. The criminal court of Tashkent's Yunusabad District has ruled to sentence Bondar to
Updated: 04/12/2012 04:42A
Concerning the dialogue between the power and the opposition
Then Chechetov waves his hand and all the amendments fail By Ivan KAPSAMUN, The Day The members of the Party of Regions are actively pushing forward, amendment after amendment, their draft Code of Criminal Procedure. All warm feelings to the opposition
Updated: 04/12/2012 04:38A
Penal Code to be reviewed
Government has acknowledged the need to comprehensively review the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code -CPC- to make them effective. Permanent Secretary for Administration in the Ministry of Justice Mbololwa Muyaba says despite the penal code
Updated: 04/12/2012 04:35A
Law forbids a dignified end for some
On this issue, the Criminal Code does much worse than merely fail the people it is designed to protect - it makes illegal what ought to be a basic human right: dying on one's own terms. If a person terminally ill with cancer chooses to end his or her
Updated: 04/12/2012 04:27A
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