Criminal Law

(Reuters) – Auditors in Hong Kong are mounting an increasingly vocal campaign against a proposed new law that would make them face criminal sanctions for shoddy audit work. The city’s lawmakers are in the final stages of considering the new … Continue reading →

One year after opening his own law practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Attorney Frank Walker of Frank Walker Law obtained his license to practice law before the Supreme Court of Appeals for the State of West Virginia. PRLog (Press Release) – … Continue reading →

(Reuters) – Auditors in Hong Kong are mounting an increasingly vocal campaign against a proposed new law that would make them face criminal sanctions for shoddy audit work. The city’s lawmakers are in the final stages of considering the new … Continue reading →

(Reuters) – Auditors in Hong Kong are mounting an increasingly vocal campaign against a proposed new law that would make them face criminal sanctions for shoddy audit work. The city’s lawmakers are in the final stages of considering the new … Continue reading →

The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies for the past week … Sullivan, 19, of Rivers Road, Fayetteville, for battery, criminal damages to property 2nd, aggravated assault and interfering with 911 call.

Under New Jersey law – which treats drunken driving as a motor-vehicle offense, not a criminal offense – judges cannot impose bail on an alleged drunken-driving offender or even suspend his license. And so, Sotomayor was charged with drunken …

“Case law on pre-emption is fairly confused … Reavley said. “But if there was a criminal that should be understood and respected and be grateful for, it is those individuals.” In the Arizona case, emotion swerved in another direction.

The legal system needs to take greater account of new discoveries in neuroscience that show how a difficult childhood can affect the development of a young person’s brain which can increase the risk adolescent crimes, according to researchers.

The research will be presented as part of an Economic and Social Research Council seminar series in conjunction with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Neuroscientists have recently shown that early adversity — such as a very chaotic and … Continue reading →

The dean of İstanbul Medeniyet University’s school of law, Hakan Hakeri, believes that the major problem is the lack of a long-term plan for new legislation, while criminal law professor and lawyer Vahit Bıçak notes that the background work …