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5 unusual facts about criminal law


Courts in Austria

The system of courts in Austria interpreting and applying Austrian law is marked by a division between ordinary courts, dealing with criminal and civil cases, and public law tribunals for constitutional law, administrative law and asylum law.

Courts of Northern Ireland

The courts of Northern Ireland are the civil and criminal courts responsible for the administration of justice in Northern Ireland: they are constituted and governed by Northern Ireland law.

Johan Munck

He has authored several books and articles related to criminal and civil law.

Penalty fare

Penalty fares are used to discourage casual fare evasion and disregard for the ticketing rules without resorting to (in the case of railways in Great Britain) the drastic and costly step of prosecution under the Regulation of Railways Act 1889 or other laws dealing with theft and fraud.

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court.


Chao Tzee Cheng

He also helped solve notorious crimes in the annals of Singapore criminal law, such as the Adrian Lim cult murders, the Scripps Body Parts murders, the Bulgarian murder and the Flor Contemplacion case.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

The Code of Criminal Procedure is the main legislation on procedure for administration of substantive criminal law in India.

Cynthia Herrup

Herrup's writings center primarily on the social history of criminal law, but she also touches upon the historical impact of gender and sexuality.

Gabriel Hallevy

In 2007, Hallevy was granted a special honorary prize by the Knesset (the highest academic prize in Israel) for research into criminal law.

Gerald Ellis Rosen

Judge Rosen has written and published articles for professional journals and the popular press on a wide range of issues, including civil procedure, evidence, due process, criminal law, labor law and legal advertising, as well as numerous other topics.

House concurrent resolution 108

HCR-108 was passed concurrently with Public Law 280, which granted state jurisdiction over civil and criminal offenses committed by or upon Native Americans in Indian Territory in the states of California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oregon, and Nebraska, all of which have large Indigenous populations.

Jotwell

Currently the sections—each of which is organized as its own independent blog—are: Administrative Law, Classics, Constitutional Law, Corporate Law, Courts Law, Criminal Law, Cyberlaw, Equality, Family Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property Law, Jurisprudence, Legal History, Legal Profession, Tax Law, Tort Law, Trusts & Estates, and Work Law.

Mischief

As an overt demonstration to other hackers of their skill in the use of force, these security breaches can be taken as a sign of criminal intent and may result in charges as serious as terrorism.

Raimo Lahti

Raimo Lahti (born 1946) has been professor of Criminal Law at the University of Helsinki since 1979 and has been involved with reform of the Finnish Medical Law and Criminal Law.

Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland

The High Court is a court of first instance with general original jurisdiction, hearing the most important cases in civil law and criminal law (in the latter case sitting as the Central Criminal Court).

Tina Liebling

In 1994, she moved to Rochester, where her husband was hired as a consultant for the Mayo Clinic, and she began a solo law practice focused on criminal law.


see also

Boutique law firm

Looking beyond U.S. borders, litigation law firms based in Europe include Tiberghien, Oppenhoff & Partner and Tedioli, and based in Canada, Adler Bytensky Prutschi Shikhman specializes in criminal law.

Colour of right

As a practical matter New Zealand Fire Service policy says that Fire Police are not to use blue beacons, but such a policy carries no significance in relation to criminal law.

Common assault

Common assault is now available as an alternative verdict under section 6(3) of the Criminal Law Act 1967, by virtue of section 6(3A) of that Act (which was inserted by section 11 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004).

Common law offence

Common law offences are crimes under English criminal law and the related criminal law of Commonwealth of Nations countries.

Court Up North

The documentary explores the issues surrounding the criminal law system in the Northern Territory, particularly in relation to remote communities and Indigenous Australians.

Criminal law consolidation Acts 1861

The criminal law consolidation Acts 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. cc. 94 - 100) were Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Eduard Herbst

He was professor of criminal law and the philosophy of law at Prague in 1858, was elected a deputy to the Bohemian Diet, and then, in accordance with the February patent of 1861, was elected by the Diet to the Lower House on the Austrian Reichsrat, where he became one of the most conspicuous members of the German Liberal, or Constitutional, party.

Edward F. Hennessey

During the 1950s and early 1960s, he practiced civil and criminal law and was an assistant Middlesex district attorney.

Ethel Skinner

Such was the controversy surrounding this storyline that the University of Glamorgan uses the plot as part of their new approach to the study of British criminal law.

Foster's Crown Law

A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746, in the County of Surry; And of Other Crown Cases: to which are Added Discourses Upon a Few Branches of the Crown Law, usually called simply Crown Law or Crown Cases, is an influential treatise on the criminal law of England, written by Sir Michael Foster (1689 - 1763), judge of the King's Bench and later edited by his nephew, Michael Dodson, barrister at law.

František Mrázek

In February 2009 Czech parliament amended criminal law with explicit ban on publishing any account of police wiretapping, under heavy fine and years of imprisonment.

Gary LaFree

LaFree is also on the editorial boards of several scientific journals including the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and the International Journal of Conflict and Violence.

History of the Supreme Court of Canada

Antonio Lamer's criminal law background proved an influence on the number of criminal cases heard by the court during his time as Chief Justice.

Indecency with Children Act 1960

The Act came about as the result of the First Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee, which examined the flaw in criminal law relating to indecent assaults against children.

Internal Revenue Service

The IRS also includes a criminal law enforcement division (IRS Criminal Investigation Division).

Kálmán Györgyi

After that Györgyi was appointed Ministerial Commissioner responsible for codification of criminal law, under Minister Ibolya Dávid.

Karl Ernst Jarcke

Karl Ernst Jarcke (10 November 1801, Danzig, Prussia – 27 December 1852, Vienna) was a German publisher and professor of criminal law, who took a conservative stance towards revolutionary movements in the early nineteenth century.

Lakshmi Sahgal

Sahgal was born as Lakshmi Swaminathan in Madras (now known as Chennai) on 24 October 1914 to S. Swaminathan, a lawyer who practiced criminal law at Madras High Court, and A.V. Ammukutty, better known as Ammu Swaminathan, a social worker and independence activist from the Vadakkath family of Anakkara in Palghat, Kerala.

LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands

However, sexual acts between two consenting adult males in private were expressly decriminalized by an Order in Council in the British Virgin Islands (and other British Caribbean territories) by the British Government pursuant to the Caribbean Territories (Criminal Law) Order, 2000 Sections 3(1) and 3(7).

Nestor Courakis

Born May 21, 1947 in Athens he attended the Law Faculty, University of Athens (LL.M. 1971), Law Faculty, University of Freiburg/Germany (Ph.D. on Penal Law 1978 with "summa cum laude"), Law Faculty, Panthéon-Assas University ("Diplôme d' Études approfondies" in Criminology, 1977), Paris Institute of Criminology (Diploma 1979); research work at Max-Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, Germany) 1978-80.

Nulyarimma v Thompson

In his second reading speech, Senator Brian Greig drew to the attention of parliament the gaps in Australia's criminal law and the need to pass legislation to implement the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide which Australia ratified in 1949.

Precrime

For born criminals, criminal psychopaths and dangerous habitual offenders eliminatory penalties (capital punishment, indefinite confinement, castration etc.) were seen as appropriate (cf.Leon Radzinowicz/Roger Hood: A History of English Criminal Law, London 1986, pp. 231–387).

Ralf Kölbel

He is professor of criminology, criminal law and criminal proceedings law at Faculty of Law, Bielefeld University.

Richard Negrin

As a litigator at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Negrin represented corporations in civil, administrative, and criminal law proceedings.

Riverside County Sheriff's Department

This function is mandated by Public Law 280, enacted in 1953, which transferred the responsibility of criminal law enforcement on tribal land from the federal government to specified state governments including California.

Ronald J. Bacigal

He is the reporter for criminal law decisions of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Samuel Romilly

Romilly's work in reforming criminal law began with his Thoughts on Executive Justice (1786), which developed the views of Beccaria.

Simon Reevell

Based in chambers in Leeds, he practises in general criminal law, specialising in defending service personnel at courts-martial both in the UK and abroad.

Smokin Wanjala

Dr. Wanjala lectured at the University of Nairobi for 15 years where he taught International Law, International Human Rights Law, Land Law and Criminal Law.

Terence Arnold

He taught criminal law at Victoria University of Wellington as well as at several Canadian universities, including Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary.

United States v. Moore

The defendant Moore was charged with the possession of heroin, and in his defense sought to introduce psychiatric testimony that because of his heroin addiction he lacked substantial capacity to conform his behavior to the standards of the criminal law.

War of aggression

Lyal S. Sunga The Emerging System of International Criminal Law: Developments in Codification and Implementation, Kluwer (1997) 508 p.

Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute

The Crimes Against Humanity Initiative is directed by a global Steering Committee of experts and scholars in the field of international criminal law including Professor Leila Nadya Sadat (chairwoman), Professor M. Cherif Bassouni, Ambassador Hans Corell, Justice Richard Goldstone, Professor Juan E. Méndez, Professor William Schabas and Judge Christine Van Den Wyngaert.

William Henry Harrison Hart

William Henry Harrison Hart (October 30, 1857 – January 6, 1934) was an African American attorney and Professor of Criminal Law at Howard University for from 1887 to 1922.

William Scroggs

Sir JF Stephen, History of the Criminal Law of England (3 vols, London, 1883)