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Record arrests as police use controversial kettling to control Montreal protests
Montreal police said those arrested could face charges under municipal bylaws or the Criminal Code. As the march approached the line of police on Sherbrooke Street, other Montreal officers and Quebec provincial police riot squad members moved in to cut
Updated: 05/24/2012 11:45A
APNewsBreak: US deports man sought for war crimes in Bosnia from Las Vegas to
aboard a commercial airline after an overnight flight from Las Vegas accompanied by federal agents, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lori Haley said. Radojkovic was turned over to Bosnia-Herzegovina law enforcement officials for
Updated: 05/24/2012 11:08A
JUSTICE ON THE CHEAP? Legal aid cuts could mean more cases like Sam Hallam's
Lady Justice Heather Hallett the appeal judge said in court that the original advice to give no comment may have cost him in terms of the crucial evidence sitting there on his phone. Yet, astonishingly, his camera mobile was not – officially – checked.
Updated: 05/24/2012 11:07A
European Parliament Says Decriminalization Political Decisions Necessary
The European Parliament believes that reform of the Penal Code to decriminalize political decisions is a necessary condition for signing the association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. The European Parliament adopted the relevant
Updated: 05/24/2012 11:03A
Current Trends in State Labor and Employment Law
Under these laws, employers are restricted from asking about a job seeker's criminal history on an initial application. Depending on the specific law, an employer can inquire about a prospective employee's criminal history either during the interview
Updated: 05/24/2012 10:58A
Online press: <i>de facto</i> immunity from criminal prosecutions
Another possible consequence is that publishers of online publications are likely to benefit from a more favourable liability regime in both criminal and civil cases. A 'press offence' has been defined by case law as "an unlawful expression of opinion
Updated: 05/24/2012 10:28A
Quebec's 'truncheon law' rebounds as student strike spreads
Under a draconian law passed by the Quebec government on Friday, their very meeting could be considered a criminal act. Law 78 – unprecedented in recent Canadian history – is the latest, most desperate manoeuvre of a provincial government that is
Updated: 05/24/2012 10:26A
Addicts know many fears, but the law is least among them
In this way, although I was never actually charged with using heroin, the criminal penalties attached to the drug would inevitably propel me further and further into a dark, unhappy, alienated and criminal world. When society already hates and fears
Updated: 05/24/2012 10:25A
Finers Stephens Innocent | Mark Stephens: "Why we must assert the rights of
In France, for example, criminal laws against homosexuals so far as they existed in Ancien Regime, were swept away by the French revolution and deleted by Napoleon's codifiers from the criminal codes instituted in France and never exported to its
Updated: 05/24/2012 10:17A
Finers Stephens Innocent | Mark Stephens: "Why we must assert the rights of
In France, for example, criminal laws against homosexuals so far as they existed in Ancien Regime, were swept away by the French revolution and deleted by Napoleon's codifiers from the criminal codes instituted in France and never exported to its
Updated: 05/24/2012 10:17A
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