OTTAWA — A provision to allow police officers to submit routine evidence in a trial by affidavit, as opposed to automatically appearing in person to be cross-examined, has been removed from the government’s justice bill after coming under heavy criticism. Article conten...
Indigenous means of conflict resolution have proven to genuinely reconcile and pacify society, even in serious criminal offences. Problematic is that local socio-political realities are much stronger than state institutions. Government authorities have been compelled to work with local solutions in order ...
The trust said the average prison sentence for serious, indictable offences is now 62.4 months — almost two years longer than in 2010. Mr Gauke told the BBC that in the last three decades “governments of all colours have been very quick to announce new and longer prison ...
(the decision to stay proceedings against Jordan was unanimous, but four judges, including Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, disagreed with the new ceilings) will hold accountable all the players in the system — police, prosecutors, defence lawyers, judges and gove...
Rasoulof told Reuters in Cannes that the idea for the film had come to him after being arrested and detained several times. He has been charged with offences ranging from filming without a permit to "collusion against national security". "In the last few years I was in...
The countries in transition have also witnessed a dramatic rise in delinquency rates; since 1995, juvenile crime levels in many countries in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States have increased by more than 30 percent. Many of the criminal offences are related to drug abuse ...
In July 2020, the Government launched a consultation on whether this would be a good idea, and if so what any new age limit should be. The results of this consultation are now in and were published in March 2021. The Government has now decided that it will increase the MRA to 75, the...
This is really a case and guidance that’s been promoted by a very tiny minority of British people. It’s not reflective of the basic decency of British people. It’s simply that there’s been a disproportionate voice from a very well-funded lobby. And it has the ear of government, it...
Often known as the 'Njoki law', it introduces mandatory minimum sentences for a wide range of offences including child rape, trafficking for sexual exploitation, and the deliberate transmission of HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. During her parliamentary term,...
They added: "The Lord Chancellor announced in July that she was scrapping the previous government's early release scheme, replacing it with a system which excludes several domestic abuse-related offences."