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There has been speculation that these new laws will threaten the future of corporate hospitality. By and large, this is misplaced. You can still entertain your clients without breaking the law, but you will need to ensure that the hospitality is
Updated: 03/09/2011 09:29A
Second merger of lists
Victorian Bar Council chairman Mark Moshinsky, SC, says the bar has been approached by aspiring clerks who have proposed new business models. The council is ''supportive, receptive, of that'', he says, so it has launched a review of the clerking system
Updated: 03/09/2011 09:11A
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During the March 4 sitting of the Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration, MP Jondi Baghaturia presented a new initiative to his colleagues – the draft law “Introducing Changes to the Criminal Code of Georgia,” Versia reports.
Updated: 03/09/2011 09:09A
Police Blotter 3.9.11
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF : A Palmer Ave resident reported that someone had made markings with permanent ink on the door to her apartment. Feb. 20 PENAL LAW ARREST: The owner of Plaza Bootery was arrested and charged in the robbery that had been reported to
Updated: 03/09/2011 08:20A
JENKINS v. BROWN
It is clearly established federal law that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to testify at trial. Rock v. Arkansas, 483 US 44 (1987). The Supreme Court has located this right in the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth
Updated: 03/09/2011 08:19A
PEOPLE v. SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
We note that as the People pointed out, the issue of the criminal street gang's existence was not in question at the preliminary hearing. In determining whether the evidence introduced at a preliminary hearing is sufficient to support a holding order,
Updated: 03/09/2011 07:39A
PEOPLE v. MALONE
or any savings and loan association; or [¶] Whoever enters or attempts to enter any bank, credit union, or any savings and loan association, or any building used in whole or in part as a bank, credit union, or as a savings and loan association,
Updated: 03/09/2011 07:35A
China amends criminal law to cover foreign bribery: bribery of non-PRC
On February 25, 2011, the legislature of the People's Republic of China (“PRC”), the National People's Congress, passed a slate of 49 amendments to the Criminal Law, one of which is a provision
Updated: 03/09/2011 06:55A
Four Face Charges for Snowmobiling in Terra Nova Park
Four Criminal Code charges were laid for obstructing a person making a legal seizure in the park. Officials say the investigation continues for events on February 13 and the illegal cutting of a trail in late 2010. It is against the law to snowmobile
Updated: 03/09/2011 06:51A
Lawrence D. Shubow, judge, civil rights advocate; at 88
Lawrence D. Shubow, a retired Brookline District Court judge, died of Alzheimer's disease on Feb. 22 at the Atria Woodbriar Assisted Living Facility in Falmouth. He was 88. His children described him as a civil rights advocate,
Updated: 03/09/2011 05:51A
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