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Social media lessons from Oman: Best Burger threatens legal action over bad review
In Oman, defamation is a criminal offence stipulated in the criminal law, while in the UK defamation is a civil matter that does not necessarily have any criminal aspect associated with it. Being a crime in Oman, defamation is potentially a much more
Updated: 04/20/2011 04:58A
Babruysk journalist warned over bombing allegation
on news site belaruspartisan.org, quoting Alyaksandr Lukashenka as saying that the bombing was entirely the government's fault. Mr. Sanatsenka described the warning as a violation of the constitution, the Media Law and the Criminal Code. //BelaPAN.
Updated: 04/20/2011 04:53A
China Mulls Harsher Penalties on Drunk Driving
Under current law, drunk drivers are suspended from driving for three or six months and, in serious cases, detained for 15 days. From May 1, drunk driving becomes a crime under China's Criminal Law. Previously it was considered as a traffic violation.
Updated: 04/20/2011 02:35A
New laws will ban teens from being out after dark
DUBAI // New laws are being drafted to address a rising trend of youth violence, including amendments to the juvenile criminal code and a law to regulate knives and swords, collectively referred to as "cold weapons". A third of juvenile crimes reported
Updated: 04/20/2011 01:19A
Police shooting sentence 'unusual'
A criminal law expert says the consecutive sentence handed down to a man who shot at a policeman is unusual. Neshanderan Rajgopaul has been sentenced to 18 years in jail - that's 14 years for the attempted murder of Constable Jeremy Snow and 4 years
Updated: 04/20/2011 12:18A
Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
He told his wife he had been arrested and held in solitary confinement as punishment for writings on the Internet. He remained in detention at the end of 2010. All public employees are forbidden from “participating, directly or indirectly,
Updated: 04/20/2011 12:09A
SRI LANKA: Development and law -- noon-day darkness in the country
This framework of law can only exist within the broader framework of the legal system of the country. Within that legal system the constitutional law, the criminal law and the civil law form the foundations. The constitution is the foundation of all
Updated: 04/19/2011 11:56P
Shiney Ahuja files petition in HC
for raping his 20-year-old maid, actor Shiney Ahuja on Tuesday filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court, stating that the benefit of lapses in the case given to the prosecution by the trial court were “unheard of in the history of criminal law”.
Updated: 04/19/2011 10:09P
Free attorney consultations available at Valley Plaza on April 26
On Tuesday, April 26 you can talk to one and get some shopping done too. The Kern County Bar Association, Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance and Kern County Law Library are collaborating to provide, among other things, free individual consultations
Updated: 04/19/2011 08:48P
Penal reform
Whatever the reason behind the changes it produced a system that rapidly filled the jails, impeded the delivery of justice, was manifestly unfair to women and was one of the more blatant abuses of human rights on our statute books.
Updated: 04/19/2011 08:15P
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