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Female Rapists to Be Tried for Prostitution
(28) and their male counterpart Thulani Ngwenya (24) were withdrawn before plea, Netsai and Rosemary will be charged with contravening Section 81(2) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act which emanated from the dropped charges.
Updated: 05/04/2012 07:34A
White, S - Immigration
Kenny MacAskill: Individuals in Scotland are subject to Scots criminal law. They may also, depending on the facts and circumstances of a particular case, owe civil law obligations to other persons. Asylum and Immigration regulations are reserved
Updated: 05/04/2012 07:12A
Law & Disorder: Car knocks motorcycle off road, killing woman
A Green Cove Springs woman is in jail after a man who cut her off in traffic was rammed and threatened with a knife, authorities said. The road rage incident occurred April 19 followed by Julie Ann Sarver Johnson's Wednesday arrest on charges of
Updated: 05/04/2012 06:42A
PM informs EU ambassadors about Criminal Assets Forfeiture Act adoption
The new law, adopted in three successive late-night sessions in parliament, makes it possible to launch asset seizure proceedings against alleged top criminals without waiting for verdicts in their criminal trials. The property of suspected organised
Updated: 05/04/2012 06:27A
PM informs EU ambassadors about Criminal Assets Forfeiture Act adoption
The new law, adopted in three successive late-night sessions in parliament, makes it possible to launch asset seizure proceedings against alleged top criminals without waiting for verdicts in their criminal trials. The property of suspected organised
Updated: 05/04/2012 06:27A
Chief drug expert against imposing criminal responsibility on addicts
Yevgeny Bryun, the chief drug abuse expert at the Healthcare and Social Development Ministry, has spoken out against the introduction of criminal responsibility for drug abuse. The Federal Drug Control Service has prepared a draft law allowing for
Updated: 05/04/2012 06:21A
Caution urged for criminal checks in hiring
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued new guidance for businesses on using criminal background information in hiring new employees. Issued April 27, the EEOC guidelines are designed to clarify existing laws regarding appropriate use of
Updated: 05/04/2012 06:16A
On World Press Freedom Day… SLAJ urges President Koroma to
The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has repeated its call on President Koroma to make do his promise to repeal the Criminal Libel and Seditious Laws from the law books of the country. SLAJ made this call as it marks World Press Freedom
Updated: 05/04/2012 06:08A
Published on Friday, 04 May 2012 Written by Azita Ranjbar
There are, however, criminal cases like Totugul's that involve the forcible abduction of women followed by intense psychological and cultural pressure to marry. Although bride kidnapping is illegal under Article 155 of Kyrgyzstan's Criminal Code,
Updated: 05/04/2012 05:40A
EEOC issues enforcement guidance on use of arrest and conviction records in
Although the Guidance went into effect immediately, it did not materially change the state of the law in this area. Rather, the Guidance provides more in-depth and consolidated analyses of the issues than the EEOC's previous publications.
Updated: 05/04/2012 05:27A
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