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Is International Criminal Court the best way to stop war crimes?
For the ICC, which started work in July 2002, and until last month hadn't completed a single case, the Kony video may have been great public relations - it's had 88 million hits - but it also was a display of the court's impotence.
Updated: 04/29/2012 04:34A
Delhi Court Asks Legislators to Re-Think Age of Consent
The court made the observation while acquitting a youth, facing trial for kidnapping and abducting a young girl here in October 2008 with an intention to compel her to marry him. The court said both the girl and the accused were in love and had eloped
Updated: 04/29/2012 04:02A
Military to show Guantanamo trial at US bases
James Pohl, the chief of the Guantanamo war court, to open viewing sites for the May 5 arraignment "due to the serious nature of the crimes alleged and the historic nature of military commissions." In it, Pohl authorized a total of eight viewing sites
Updated: 04/29/2012 03:25A
S. Dakotans face attempted murder in Nebraska
Aleksandr Voznyuk of Sioux Falls and Petr Strizheus of Harrisburg appeared Friday in Kearney County Court for preliminary hearings. Their cases were bound over for trial in district court. Nebraska state trooper Paul Hazard testified that the men led
Updated: 04/29/2012 03:08A
Eagle Forum seeks to join UO against Title IX lawsuit
The university is petitioning the full 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals for reconsideration after a March ruling of a three-judge 9th Circuit panel found that former UO doctoral student Monica Emeldi had a case worthy of a trial.
Updated: 04/29/2012 03:06A
Must keep witnesses safe
But a proposal now gaining momentum to have the courts return to the use of secret, indicting grand juries in select criminal cases would provide witnesses with a much-needed measure of anonymity in the early stages of trial proceedings.
Updated: 04/29/2012 03:06A
Must keep witnesses safe
But a proposal now gaining momentum to have the courts return to the use of secret, indicting grand juries in select criminal cases would provide witnesses with a much-needed measure of anonymity in the early stages of trial proceedings.
Updated: 04/29/2012 03:06A
Re-think on age of consent for sex: Court to MPs
The court made the observation while acquitting a youth, facing trial for kidnapping and abducting a young girl here in October 2008 with an intention to compel her to marry him. The court said both the girl and the accused were in love and had eloped
Updated: 04/29/2012 03:05A
Re-think age of consent for sex: Court to lawmakers
The court made the observation while acquitting a youth, facing trial for kidnapping and abducting a young girl in New Delhi in October 2008 with an intention to compel her to marry him. The court said both the girl and the accused were in love and had
Updated: 04/29/2012 03:03A
Mwamu Criticises EALA Motion on Ocampo Four
By Justus Ochieng, 27 April 2012 EAST African Law Society vice president James Mwamu has criticised a motion passed by the East African Legislative Assembly urging the ICC to transfer the Ocampo Four trials to the East African Court of Justice.
Updated: 04/29/2012 02:59A
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