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Rihanna hits out at critics of Man Down video
Parents fear the video encourages vigilante justice as acceptable behaviour, and have called for the video to be banned. The 23-year-old was famously assaulted by her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, and in the past has spoken out about her abusive father.
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:58A
Mladic tribunal must see justice done
Justice has finally caught up with Ratko Mladic. The Bosnian Serb warlord, an alleged mastermind of some of the worst crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, including the Srebrenica genocide, is sitting in the United Nations detention unit
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:57A
Forensic tests key to catching rapist
Shortly before the attack, the woman was speaking to three Asian men, aged in their 20s, in Seymour Road, and police are now appealing for the men to contact them. It is not known whether the rapist was one of the three men who spoke to the teenager
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:55A
Police fire water cannon in Istanbul
The unrest broke out when several hundred trade union members and followers of small leftist parties gathered in front of the building of the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) to protest the death of a retired teacher in a melee that broke
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:54A
Justice delayed is justice denied
Attorney General Barry Penner deserves credit, perhaps, for candour on the mounting problems in the justice system. has acknowledged that a lack of fund-A Penner ing for courts means people accused of serious crimes are regularly freed because of
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:54A
Court martial process ruled partially unconstitutional
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." University of Ottawa law professor Michel Drapeau says the ruling comes as no surprise
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:54A
Law urged to shield kids from violence
Jamie Graham plans to ask the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police in August to press for a criminal code amendment that protects children from witnessing violence. He also wants the association to back changes that would force people convicted of
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:54A
Man jailed for sex abuse of four-year-old niece
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Beth Hughes, in sentencing the diagnosed pedophile to four years for sexual interference, a year consecutive for making child pornography and six months consecutive for accessing child pornography off the Internet,
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:53A
Man jailed for kidnapping former soccer teammates
In sentencing Mupha Kwambanda to eight years, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Earl Wilson said Thursday he disbelieved the offender's claim that he did not commit the crime for financial gain. Wilson also questioned whether Kwambanda, 34,
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:53A
Redundancies 'affecting more than 1300 people' every day
According to new figures from Credit Action, an average day sees 1348 individuals become unemployed, while 331 Brits are forced to declare insolvency or bankruptcy. The statistics also showed that the total level of personal debt in the UK currently
Updated: 06/03/2011 04:53A
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