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Business ethics and anti-corruption update from Norton Rose
On October 5, 2010 the global real estate firm CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. announced, through a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, that it was investigating two instances of potential corruption involving its operations in China.
Updated: 03/23/2011 07:06P
Contentious Criminal Code clause ditched
"Victims are re-victimized when that 15-year period comes around, even if that person has no reasonable chance of getting out," said Justice Minister Rob Nicholson. "They are hurt all over again." The controversial clause was added to the Criminal Code
Updated: 03/23/2011 06:26P
Morocco And Turkey: Templates For Mideast Democracy?
These include permitting the return of political exiles, holding legislative elections, enhancing investing to alleviate poverty, modifying the criminal code and setting up the first truth and reconciliation commission in the Arab world to help mend
Updated: 03/23/2011 05:07P
"No Priors" Hiring All-Too Common
The bill passed out of the Senate's Criminal Law Committee by a 5-1 vote on March 17. NELP, meanwhile, noted in its report that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled back in 1987 that barring people from jobs based on criminal
Updated: 03/23/2011 05:04P
Sex video: 'Charge the perpetrators'
Lim, a lawyer by profession, was surprised that the police had yet to detain the perpetrators for breaking the law. Section 292 of the Penal Code prohibited any possession or screening of any form of pornographic material. The offender could face a
Updated: 03/23/2011 04:31P
"Figures of Speech": Yetta Stromberg
Led by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Court focused on the California law's prohibition of flying a red flag as a symbol of opposition to organized government. Hughes emphasized that a “fundamental principle of our constitutional system” is
Updated: 03/23/2011 03:59P
Bombay HC fines man for hiding facts
Penalizing Jayprakash Unecha, a ration shop owner, who claimed to be a social worker, a division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice RG Ketkar said, "The petitioner (Unecha) is guilty of suppressing the most vital fact that respondent number 6
Updated: 03/23/2011 03:56P
The Great Escape
Spring is all about new beginnings, so why not try some new things now that the flowers are starting to bloom and the snow seems to be safely in our rear-view mirrors? This Saturday, March 26, Tarara Winery
Updated: 03/23/2011 03:16P
Widener Law School Attempting to Fire Professor for Classroom Speech
23, 2011—Widener University School of Law is attempting to fire longtime criminal law professor Lawrence Connell by charging him with dubious violations of the school's harassment code, such as using the term “black folks” in class and using the names
Updated: 03/23/2011 01:58P
Murder charges laid
Under the Criminal Code of Canada, murder is first degree when it is “planned and deliberate.” If found guilty, the minimum sentence for first degree murder is life imprisonment. Cameron was charged following an investigation into the death of Michelle
Updated: 03/23/2011 01:34P
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