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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

Crime groups rife at ports, inquiry finds
AUSTRALIA'S border security is exposed to 19 ''critical'' risks and dozens of other serious vulnerabilities, which are wrecking efforts to control an epidemic of drugs and arms smuggling on the waterfront. A federal and state police taskforce has
Updated: 05/24/2012 10:07A

SJA provides legal assistance to Belvoir community
One division that advises commanders is the criminal law division which provides military justice services. This division also prosecutes traffic tickets and crimes committed by civilians on post that are handled in the United States District Court for
Updated: 05/24/2012 10:05A

Take it from an ex-addict, outlawing drugs does not work
No one, neither myself nor the community, was protected. Rather, it was shame, suffering, silence and stigma that flourished in the shadow of those punitive and futile laws. Kate Holden is the author of In My Skin and The Romantic.
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:56A

Almost 700 arrested in Canada tuition protest
Montreal police said those arrested will face charges, some under minor municipal bylaws and others under the more severe Criminal Code. The protesters are demanding that Quebec Premier Jean Charest roll back the tuition hikes of $254 (US$254) per year
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:37A

Hundreds arrested as police use kettling in latest Montreal student protest
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 09:21A

Hundreds arrested as police use kettling in latest Montreal student protest
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 09:21A

Is it time to rethink national policy on marijuana?
Those are pretty strong numbers, suggesting that criminal law in this country is strongly out of line with public sentiment. We're sending people to jail — most of them basically kids — and in some cases sticking them with felony criminal records for
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:01A

Fox Williams | Royal Assent for Crime of Squatting
Following the news in November 2011 that squatting in a residential building was to be made a criminal offence, The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act received Royal Assent on 1 May 2012. Section 144 covers the much-debated crime,
Updated: 05/24/2012 08:51A

International Law - Law of the Victors
The war criminals in Libya must not fear the fate of Charles Taylor because the law that convicted the Liberian ex-leader is not exactly the law for those who commit war crimes, but the law of those who rule -- the law of the victors.
Updated: 05/24/2012 08:19A