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PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: 'Twelve Angry Men' to hand down verdict at Port Angeles
He's the juror who votes for a “not guilty” verdict first, while the rest have their reasons, rational and otherwise, for believing the defendant did commit the crime. And though this is a reading, the actors have become so familiar with the script
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:01A
'We must continue to enforce rights' - Pius Langa
legal strategies in challenging poverty, as well as applied themes in areas such as equality rights, property rights, land reform, socio-economic rights, administrative justice, international law and the development of common law and customary law.
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:01A
Back with a crash! boom! bang!
In the late 1980s, Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle were launched on the music map as Roxette and went on to become, in the 1990s, the most successful Swedish music export since Abba. It all began with The Look, then Listen To Your Heart
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:01A
Ratko Mladic's first appearance at Hague war crimes tribunal - live updates
Photograph: Reuters 8.58am: Reuters make the point that Mladic's appearance in Court One has bumped Radovan Karadzic, 18 months into his own trial, from his usual prominent spot into the relative backwaters of Court Three. 8.53am: As we wait for Mladic
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:01A
Ratko Mladic's first appearance at Hague war crimes tribunal - live updates
Photograph: Reuters 8.58am: Reuters make the point that Mladic's appearance in Court One has bumped Radovan Karadzic, 18 months into his own trial, from his usual prominent spot into the relative backwaters of Court Three. 8.53am: As we wait for Mladic
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:01A
Drumright courtrooms may be closed to save money
Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven Taylor has asked whether keeping the Drumright courtrooms is efficient, said Mike Evans, the administrative director of the courts. A decision is expected by June 15, when the Supreme Court presents a budget
Updated: 06/03/2011 03:59A
Gay softball team restricts roster
The decision came in a lawsuit filed by three men who say they were disqualified from the annual tournament because they weren't gay enough. They said in the suit filed last year that their team's second-place finish in the 2008 tournament in
Updated: 06/03/2011 03:59A
Legal loss to Shell dire for wildlife
The recent rejection by a superior court justice of an appeal of an Energy Resources Conservation Board decision on Shell Canada's application to drill in the Castle wilderness is fallacious. Now the legal system has joined the ERCB and the provincial
Updated: 06/03/2011 03:59A
Rebels would seek ties with Israel: author
"The main point was that the future Libyan regime would be moderate and anti-terrorist, and will be concerned with justice for the Palestinians and security for Israel," Levy said. "The future regime will maintain normal relations with other democratic
Updated: 06/03/2011 03:59A
Military court process unconstitutional
and anxiety of having their positions come up for renewal every five years." A summary of the ruling from Justice Gilles Letourneau said the military judges must appear "constitutionally independent of the chain of command and the Executive."
Updated: 06/03/2011 03:59A
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