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President signs law to grant statutory bail to under trial prisoners
He said that the law envisaged special concessions to under trial women prisoners. The time frame specified for under trial women prisoners for eligibility to statutory bail is half of the time frame for male convicts, he said.
Updated: 04/18/2011 10:39A
Path to women's equality passes through Constitution
The 1971 Egyptian Constitution, currently suspended, includes articles that ostensibly ensure equality and outlaw discrimination based on gender, ethnic origin, language, religion or belief. But according to Egyptian gender experts, the situation is
Updated: 04/18/2011 10:00A
Federal Election Campaign Trail: April 11 – April 17
Stephen Harper announced at an April 16th campaign stop that a Conservative government would build on it's “tough-on-crime” stance to make criminal law oriented to reflect the victim. These amendments would include:
Updated: 04/18/2011 09:05A
Georgia bill tough on illegal immigrants
The Republican-controlled state House and Senate passed House Bill 87 which, among other things, allows law enforcement officers to question suspects in certain criminal investigations about their immigration status. It punishes people who transport
Updated: 04/18/2011 08:36A
New Law Would Fine Out of Bounds Skiers & Boarders
says she hopes the extra penalties will help keep skiers out of closed areas. Skiers and snowboarders who venture into restricted areas on Washington's slopes would face criminal trespassing charges and fines of up to $1000 under new law.
Updated: 04/18/2011 08:35A
Officials Honored For Slaughterhouse Case
Attorney General William Sorrell and Cindy Maguire, the chief of the AG's criminal division, were given a Humane Law Enforcement Award for 2010 for their crackdown on Bushway Packing Inc., a former slaughterhouse in Grand Isle.
Updated: 04/18/2011 07:56A
Attorney General Holder in Macon: Criminal Case Possible for Oil Spill
We've previously reported the justice department was moving forward with civil lawsuits, but Holder says the government is also considering criminal court action. He said, "We've really tried to work to get people money who had to deal with the
Updated: 04/18/2011 07:38A
British man deported from Australia over criminal past
Eighteen months later immigration officials cancelled his visa and took him into custody, placing him in the Villawood detention centre in Sydney. An appeal against the deportation order failed last month. Stephen Kenny, Tucker's lawyer,
Updated: 04/18/2011 07:34A
STATE v. CASTILLO
{¶ 1} This appeal is brought by the State pursuant to RC 2 945.67, by leave of this court, from the trial court's order of April 14, 2010, terminating Defendant's Julio Castillo's, community control sanctions the court had imposed on August 6, 2009,
Updated: 04/18/2011 07:23A
New enforcement powers for FMA and criminal liability for breaches of
However, while we support Government's policy that the law should respond forcefully to dishonest business practices, we have reservations about the broad scope of the proposed reforms. As we explain below, these reforms are fraught with difficulty and
Updated: 04/18/2011 07:20A
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