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Stores facing drinks controls
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill is to kick-start discussions with police and licensing boards over the proposal amid a rapid growth in self-scanning at large stores and concerns they can be breached by underage teenagers buying drink illegally.
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:09P
Dumb Question of the Twenty-first Century: Is It Legal?
If, in a country theoretically organized under the rule of law, wrongdoers are never brought to justice and nobody is held accountable for possibly serious crimes, then you don't have to be a constitutional law professor to know that its citizens
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:09P
DVD, Blu-ray Releases: 'Justice League,' 'Lion King,' 'The Big Lebowski' and
The second season of Justice League gets the Blu-ray treatment and will hit stores July 26, right after the end of Comic-Con (you've got your tickets and room, right?). Justice League ran on the Cartoon Network from 2001-04. After its second season,
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:08P
Adopted brother hit victim in head with spade in drunken fight
“The investigation was admittedly somewhat flawed,” Crown prosecutor Kelly Kipe told Justice Ron Mills at the sentencing hearing of Percy Littlewolf, who pleaded guilty April 28 to manslaughter in the death two years ago of his cousin,
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:07P
Think-tank warns FSA over mortgage restrictions
At the height of the crash, in spring 2009, an estimated one million households across the UK, or 100000 in Scotland, were in negative equity. Britain's banking regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), is currently reviewing ways to stabilise
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:06P
SC full court reference on Justice Fayyaz today
ISLAMABAD (APP) - A full court reference will be held on occasion of retirement of Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, the SC judge who is retiring on today (May31). The Reference will be held in Court Room No: 1. A number of senior advocates, advocates and
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:06P
MacAskill in new attack on Supreme Court rulings
JUSTICE Secretary Kenny MacAskill said UK Supreme Court judges should not interfere in Scots Law, when their knowledge of it was “limited to a visit to the Edinburgh Festival”. His inflammatory attack was made in advance of a meeting of the Scottish
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:06P
MacAskill in new attack on Supreme Court rulings
JUSTICE Secretary Kenny MacAskill said UK Supreme Court judges should not interfere in Scots Law, when their knowledge of it was “limited to a visit to the Edinburgh Festival”. His inflammatory attack was made in advance of a meeting of the Scottish
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:06P
Pakistan: Christian Woman Gang-Raped by Muslim Kidnappers, Tombs Desecrated…
In both cases, police refused to file a First Information Report, allowing the culprits to escape justice. These are examples of the ordinary violence visited upon Pakistan's Christian minority. Whether it involves Christian-owned land and property or
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:06P
Iran air force helicopter crashes
He said the crash of the helicopter, built by American manufacturer Bell, was due to a "technical fault" and an investigation team has been sent to the scene. Iran, under US sanctions which deny it access to American spare parts, has suffered several
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:06P
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