(redirected fromLegal act) Thesaurus Legal Encyclopedia Related to Legal act:legislation leg·is·la·tion (lĕj′ĭ-slā′shən) n. 1.The act or process of legislating; lawmaking. 2.A proposed or enacted law or group of laws. ...
criminal prosecution,prosecution- the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior test case,test suit- a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent law,jurisprudence- the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presu...
In addition, in many states, it has long been a crime to participate in an act of Sodomy. The argument that punishing sodomy can stem HIV transmission was made in a case involving a Missouri sodomy statute specifically limited to homosexual conduct. In State v. Walsh, 713 S.W.2d 508 (...
Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO)which came out earlier this month. Legal aid is a lifeline for some of the most vulnerable people in society. Hundreds of thousands became ineligible when LASPO came into existence. The ramifications of the Act are being felt across public ...
Caradonna claims that the sex workers’ movement cannot offer migrant sex workers much, while the rescue industry can offer access to legal aid, counselling, temporary housing, professional training, and possibly asylum (id., 28). Nicola Mai’s ethnography of migrant sex workers in Europe ...
Statutes of limitations are designed to aid defendants. A plaintiff, however, can prevent the dismissal of his action for untimeliness by seeking to toll the statute. When the statute is tolled, the running of the time period is suspended until some event specified by law takes place. Tolling...
Access to civil legal aid is limited (unless the image-based sexual abuse takes place within the context of domestic abuse) and non-existent for individuals with no recourse to public funds; and, even with such funding, bringing a civil suit can still be a huge undertaking. That said, ...
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The law has long recognized the importance ofVisitation Rights, because such rights aid the prisoner's eventual transition back into the community by keeping the individual in touch with society. Prisoners do not have a constitutional right to enjoy contact visits, as opposed to arrangements in whi...
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