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Molestation case: US national says IPL player tagged along
on woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 454 (lurking house trespass) and 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) of the Indian Penal Code.
Updated: 05/18/2012 03:03A
Prison overcrowding highest in Western Cape
Tizina Ramagaga, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, said the Criminal Law Amendment Act 105 of 1997 'doubled or quadrupled sentenced inmates, but the most inmates now are awaiting trial'. Ramagaga added the prison population most
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:37A
Value of UK justice 'deteriorating' - expert
The 'march of managerialism' and a desire to speed up proceedings have led to a drop in the value put on justice by the UK Government and society, according to the retiring director of the Criminal Law Solicitors Association (CLSA).
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:21A
Value of UK justice 'deteriorating' - expert
The 'march of managerialism' and a desire to speed up proceedings have led to a drop in the value put on justice by the UK Government and society, according to the retiring director of the Criminal Law Solicitors Association (CLSA).
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:21A
Legal Experts: Sodomy Is a Civil Right
William Eskridge, Yale Law School professor and an author of a book on sodomy laws, points out that the US Supreme Court struck down a criminal sodomy law in Texas in its landmark 2003 case (yes, that's the same case that caused Rick Perry so much
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:16A
Legal Experts: Sodomy Is a Civil Right
William Eskridge, Yale Law School professor and an author of a book on sodomy laws, points out that the US Supreme Court struck down a criminal sodomy law in Texas in its landmark 2003 case (yes, that's the same case that caused Rick Perry so much
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:16A
Mutare Man In Trouble Over Mugabe Remarks
Maxwell Mutsetse (30), of Mutare, is facing charges of contravening section 33 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act after he allegedly insulted and undermined Mugabe's authority by uttering words to do with the octogenarian leader's male
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:07A
Two Great Zimbabwe University Students Convicted
They were facing charges of public violence under section 36 of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act [Chapter 9:23], emanating from challenging the authorities after they had been ordered to defer their studies upon late payment of fees.
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:04A
Cannibal wins right to leave mental hospital
WINNIPEG, Manitoba - A man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he is being kept, a criminal review board ruled Thursday. The Criminal Code review
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:01A
Man who beheaded, ate fellow passenger on Greyhouse bus in Canada wins bid to
WINNIPEG, Manitoba - A man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he is being kept, a criminal review board ruled Thursday. The Criminal Code review
Updated: 05/18/2012 01:57A