Latest Criminal Law News
China Mulls Harsher Punishment for Principal Criminals of Organized Crimes
China has been considering harsher punishment for principal offenders of organized crimes in its latest draft amendment to the Criminal Law.
Updated: 12/20/2010 03:33A
John Cooney: Church leaders must pay for failing to act on abuse
of church leaders who facilitated child clerical abusers by following canon law confidentiality, rather than the due process of civil and criminal law.
Updated: 12/20/2010 02:33A
The restoration of victims
Yet, there is a universal doctrine in criminal law, known as the Blackstone formula, which says that it is better to let ten guilty persons walk free than
Updated: 12/20/2010 01:58A
Awan to table two new bills in NA
Federal Law Minister Babar Awan will table Registration Act 2010 and Criminal Law Amendment Act 2008. The session wills also submit Call Attention Notices
Updated: 12/20/2010 12:51A
Cambodian UN employee sentenced under restrictive new speech law
Seng Kunnaka, a Cambodian security guard for the UN World Food Program, was sentenced Sunday, just two days after his arrest. He was charged under a new law
Updated: 12/20/2010 12:18A
Church leaders must pay for failing to act on abuse
of church leaders who facilitated child clerical abusers by following canon law confidentiality, rather than the due process of civil and criminal law.
Updated: 12/19/2010 11:54P
Coulter: The First Amendment can't always protect you
As I have noted previously, the only part of the criminal law that doesn't apply to reporters is the death penalty, at least since 2002, when the Supreme
Updated: 12/19/2010 08:29P
Court puts woman, her kin on trial for falsely implicating 3 cops
ASJ Kamini Lau ordered criminal trial of the three Jahangirpuri residents, while absolving a police sub-inspector and two constables of the charges of
Updated: 12/19/2010 07:09P
VIEW: Double standards of our Kharijites —Yasser Latif Hamdani
The Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 declares that, for the purposes of the law and constitution, Ahmedis are non-Muslims.
Updated: 12/19/2010 05:02P
Top courts take tough stance on terrorism
They believe the criminal law denies police the tools they need. They see the overburdened court system functioning as a revolving door, returning villains
Updated: 12/19/2010 04:51P