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Extractions: The Law Society of Alberta Top The provincial Minister of Justice has responsibility for most proceedings under the Criminal Code of Canada, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and Provincial Statutes. The federal Justice Minister is responsible for criminal proceedings under Federal Statutes and for civil proceedings under federal laws. This division means that the majority of prosecutions in Alberta, as well as in the rest of the country, are handled by provincial prosecutors. A Crown prosecutor is a lawyer who is authorized to represent the Crown (i.e. the state) before all courts in the prosecution of offences. The power to lay an information (i.e. a charge) is found in the Criminal Code of Canada . The police have no particular power to lay a charge, but rather the same power as any other individual. Most charges in Alberta are, however, laid by the police and few matters are laid by ordinary citizens. All matters are reviewed by Crown prosecutors before they proceed.
Extractions: Related topics: Internet Pornography What Harm Can It Do? A European Court Rights A Wrong THE door to the 21st century is about to swing open. No doubt the new century will bring new hopes, ideals, mores, visions of amazing technologies, and demands for greater freedoms. Already, traditional views of governments, religions, and people are giving way to new voices and demands. In many places the rush is on to remove existing restrictions on freedom of speech and expression, regardless of the consequences! Those skilled in the use of computers, both adults and children, can now transmit graphic pictures of lewd sex acts to other continents within seconds and converse with known sex offenders and child molesters who ask for names and addresses for clandestine rendezvous. Music with lyrics that suggest and encourage suicide and the killing of parents, police, and government officials is now heard daily on radio and television or is on recordings played by children. Few of those demanding unrestricted freedom of speech would disagree with Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who over a half century ago wrote in a famous landmark decision regarding freedom of speech: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." The resulting consequences of such an act are obvious. How unreasonable, then, for these same ones to place little or no value on a subsequent sentence of that same decision and act in headstrong defiance of it. "The question in every case," said Holmes, "is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
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Extractions: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript The NewsHour's regional commentators discuss Chief Justice William Rehnquist's decision not to keep secret service agents from testifying in front of the grand jury in the Monica Lewinsky matter. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: For views from around the country on the Secret Service testimony issue we turn to our regional commentators: Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Constitution, Bob Kittle of the San Diego Union Tribune, Mike Barnicle of the Boston Globe, and Patrick McGuigan of the Daily Oklahoman, joined tonight by Jim Boyd of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Lee Cullum is away. Bob Kittle, are the American people's interest served by Secret Service agents being compelled to testify about what they may have seen or heard while guarding the President? ROBERT KITTLE, San Diego Union Tribune: Yes, Elizabeth, I believe they are. I believe they are because the White House claim of a protective function privilege really was a constitutional absurdity, and every judge who examined that issue, from the trial court judge right up to Supreme Court Justice-Chief Justice William Rehnquist-concluded as much. The reality is that there's nothing in the Constitution and nothing in the law that says-that supports the White House claim that Secret Service agents somehow are not obligated, as all other citizens are, to respond to a lawful subpoena from the-from a court of law. And, if, in fact, the agents had been allowed not to testify, if the courts had decided that they were somehow exempt, then they would have been placed above the law. And, in fact, the Secret Service agents are sworn law enforcement officers. For them to fail to cooperate with a legitimate inquiry by the U.S. Government I think would have done great injustice to our system.
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Extractions: Need Criminal Defense Attorney Help? Intimidating a witness is considered a conspiracy to interfere with civil rights and is described as follows: If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire to deter, by force, intimidation, or threat, any party or witness in any court of the United States from attending such court, or from testifying to any matter pending therein, freely, fully, and truthfully, or to injure such party or witness in his person or property on account of his having so attended or testified, or to influence the verdict, presentment, or Tax Evasion of any grand or petit juror in any such court, or to injure such juror in his person or property on account of any verdict, presentment, or indictment lawfully assented to by him, or of his being or having been such juror; or if two or more persons conspire for the purpose of impeding, hindering, obstructing, or defeating, in any manner, the due course of justice in any State or Territory, with intent to deny to any citizen the equal protection of the laws, or to injure him or his property for lawfully enforcing, or attempting to enforce, the right of any person, or class of persons, to the equal protection of the laws.
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Extractions: and Policy Breaking new ground, Science on the Witness Stand presents a systematic approach for assessing scientific evidence to be used in medical or health risk-related cases, claims for adjudication, and public policy. Edited by: Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC Susan G. Rose, JD, MPH, Partner, Stanley and Rose Law Firm, Oakland, CA and Washington, DC. She specializes in toxic torts and pharmaceutical products liability law. Science on the Witness Stand will be a welcome addition to the library of any medical or legal professional whose work involves presenting medical evidence in a legal context. More and more often, occupational and environmental health specialists are being asked to provide expert testimony in legal proceedings related to their line of work. Yet despite advanced study and training in the medical area, many have had little experience in the legal proceedings, documents, and standards for admissible evidence required for presenting a legal case. Legal experts, on the other hand, may be completely familiar with the legal procedures, but uninformed about medical procedures and protocols used to diagnose medical conditions, recommend treatment plans, and report work-related medical problems. This book serves as the critical bridge between the two disciplines required to bring cases to a successful conclusion.
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Extractions: The Reading Committee was established by the Ministry of the Environment and Forests in compliance with the Independent Observer's Terms of Reference. The Committee is comprised of MINEF officials (Permanent Secretary, the General Inspector, the CCU members and representatives of the Forest and the Judicial Department), representatives of the relevant donors (CIDA, DfID, Delegation of the Commission of the European Union, the World Bank) and the Independent Observer. The Reading Committee's role is to examine the mission reports the Independent Observer has produced for each concession title inspected or each case of illegal logging observed. The Reading Committee then examines each mission report. If there is no disagreement about its contents, it approves it, sometimes including minor amendments agreed with the Independent Observer. Other times, though, it might suggest some additional recommendations, and in those cases such recommendations are included in the Independent Observer's report in a distinct box.
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Extractions: Download Acrobat Reader 77 kb 161 kb In 1972, Georgetown Law School initiated an experimental outreach course taught to inner-city high school students in Washington, D.C. From a humble pilot program involving four students during the 1972-73 academic year, the program now known as "Street Law" has grown to include hundreds of students at over 40 major law schools across the country. In addition, Street Law, Inc., a non-profit group developed in response to the need to expand this program nationwide. The success of the programs in this country has led Street Law Inc. to take Street Law overseas. Currently, programs are being offered all over the world, including South Africa, Chile, Ecuador, German, Namibia, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Eastern Europe. Street Law is a practical program of legal education designed to engage high school students in a critical examination of their legal responsibilities and rights. By taking law to high schools, law students have the opportunity to conduct discussions with the high school students about practical legal problems, contemporary legal issues, and the ramifications of breaking the law. The ultimate goal of the program is to provide these inner-city students with a sense of belonging in society through empowerment with knowledge of the law. By providing students with a non-adversarial view of the law, Street Law works to provide an understanding of the fundamental principles of authority, fairness, justice and responsibility that underlie our legal system. By demystifying the law, Street Law will hopefully allow young people to develop a positive attitude towards the law and reduce juvenile delinquency.
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Extractions: The legal system relies heavily on expert testimony on a wide range of subjects. Indeed, the likelihood that a scientist may be called upon to be an expert witness is sufficiently great that all scientists should understand the process. This is especially true in cases of environmental and health and safety suits, where court actions may be critical to the well-being of individuals, the community and society at large. The role of expert witness provides opportunities for public service and professional development, but it has its dangers. Many people regard expert witnesses as charlatans whose testimony is bought, and who will say anything to get their extraordinarily high fee. The spectacle of two supposed experts vehemently disagreeing on an issue in court only fuels that image. Certain areas of litigation tend to produce "professional" witnesses, but too-frequent testimony from a particular bias can make such an expert appear self-serving. It is vital that scientists improve their effectiveness as witnesses to make the most out of the experience professionally and personally and to bring their best to the judicial process of which they are a part.
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Extractions: Abstract In the United States there are over 1,000 custody cases fought annually involving Jehovah's Witnesses. Most involve a young couple in which the mother is converted to the Witnesses, severely alienating the father, and resulting in a divorce. Because the non-Witness fighting for custody is typically the father, the author recounted primarily the difficulties encountered in these kinds of cases. The major concern of the fathers is that raising their children as Jehovah's Witnesses is not conductive of achieving the goals that most fathers deem important for their children. These include normal social involvement in school, attending college, pursuing a career, being able to utilize appropriate medical treatment, and the development of tolerance toward humans of a variety of religious faiths and orientations.
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