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Home Affairs Ministry to implement new sentencing options
Channel News Asia
... 2010 2153 hrs SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) wants to introduce new sentencing options this year by amending the Criminal Procedure Code. ...
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Bill published to set up DNA database to fight crime
Irish Times
The Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006 (Amendment) Bill will provide for statutory rules governing the recall of persons released by the Criminal Law (Mental ...
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New cluster of prisons opens
Straits Times
... pointing out that a slew of community-based treatment orders will come on-stream this year after changes to the Criminal Procedure Code are legislated.
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STATE v. ELLIS
Leagle, Inc.
App. 1991) (refusing to reverse conviction because of "technical" violation of rules of criminal procedure, when defendant failed to show that he was ...
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Bill to drop charges against most disengagement protesters gets boost
Jerusalem Post
As for those who were not convicted but who the court declared had committed crimes, their cases will be closed and their names erased from the criminal...
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Chinese Supreme Court judge gets life term
Xinhua
Liu Renwen, a researcher of criminal law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, noted that judicial departments play an increasingly significant role in ...
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Senate defers bill on women's rights at workplace
The News International
The bill seeks to amend both the Pakistan Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, ?increasing the punishment for the crime to up to three years in ...
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On the 'Three Strikes' Policy and the SAS in Kabul
Scoop.co.nz
A year ago, Chief Justice Sian Elias said that we cannot afford the social and economic cost of our current punitive approach to criminal offending and ...
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STATE v. ANDREWS
Leagle, Inc.
Davis at 112, quoting 1 LaFave & Israel, Criminal Procedure (1984) 587, Section 7.4. {¶17} Because there was nothing unnecessarily suggestive in the ...
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ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Abusive Police Practices In New York City Schools
Common Dreams (press release)
The lawsuit maintains that inadequately trained and poorly supervised police personnel engage in aggressive behavior toward students when no criminal...
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CHILD PORNOGRAPHY: JUDICIAL CHAOS LEADS TO HORRIFIC SENTENCING ...
By johntfloyd
"It does not 'afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct.' And it creates an unwarranted sentence disparity, since similarly situated defendants are punished with substantial prison sentences.? 8/ .... The resulting vacuum has created a sentencing procedure that sometimes can appear to reflect the policy views of a given court rather than the application of a coherent set of principles to an individual situation. Individual criminal sentences are not the proper forum ..."
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Minor offence? « LAW RESOURCE INDIA
By lawreports
"The Rathore case highlights how sexual assault is viewed as a trivial crime not only by the law but by many others, including those in positions of authority. Rathore was given two promotions and made Inspector General of Police in 1990 and .... The Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2008, which has still not been notified, stipulates that a rape victim's statement to the police should be recorded by a woman police officer at the victim's residence or at a place ..."
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Newspaper Articles: Senate defers bill on women's rights at workplace
By Fani
"ISLAMABAD: The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2009, which was moved in the Senate on Tuesday, was deferred as senators from Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami expressed their reservations, saying it was not sufficient to ... The bill seeks to amend both the Pakistan Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, ?increasing the punishment for the crime to up to three years in prison and a fine of up to Rs 500000 from up to three years and unspecified fine ..."
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LawPundit: Legal Professions That Don't Require a Law Degree
By Andis Kaulins
"Legal professionals work in a wide range of law enforcement jobs and in a variety of environments, from traditional courtrooms to crime scenes and even educational settings. ... One of the most dramatic legal professions, criminal investigators work side by side with police to collect evidence and solve cases. This career is perhaps best known through numerous television depictions, but the reality is that most criminal investigators simply store and catalog evidence from ..."
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Chile | Human Rights Watch
However, the Supreme Court's criminal chamber has reduced sentences in many ... Overcrowding and inhumane conditions in many of Chile's prisons remain ... Even though Chile has completely overhauled its criminal justice procedure in ... of relying on the ordinary criminal law in dealing with crimes like these. ...