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China Tightens Rules on Animal Epidemics
2024-08-16China issued strict new rules on reporting animal epidemics as it said deadly bird flu had been detected in two new locations, bringing the total numb...
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Lawyers Say U.S. Is Toying with Padilla
2024-08-15WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen facing terrorism charges, accused the Bush administration Friday of playing games with the na...
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Law Firm Focuses on Chinese Business Affairs
2024-08-06It was one of those bread-and-butter cases that comes across the desks of law firms that steered Becker & Poliakoff toward China. In 1992, a Chine...
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Anti-Sikh Riots Lawyer Honoured in US
2024-08-16California's Lieutenant-Governor Cruz M Bustamante has honoured senior lawyer HS Phoolka with an achievement award and a state commendation for hi...
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WASHINGTON -- Responding to a congressional uproar, the Bush administration said Monday that a secret domestic surveillance program had yielded intell...
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NYS Attorney General Fines Gas Stations
2024-08-09(N.Y.) Fifteen gas stations statewide, including three controlled by oil companies, have been fined $63,500 for jacking up prices 25 percent or more a...
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Tougher Law Plan to Jail More Rapists
2024-08-26(UK) A radical overhaul of the rape laws, including a potential new definition of whether a woman is fit to give consent to sex, has been prepared by ...
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Law Review to Redefine Murder
2024-08-10(UK) The first comprehensive review of the law of murder for more than 50 years will recommend a fundamental change that would see many killings downg...
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Manslaughter Law "Needs Tightening"
2024-08-04(UK) MPs have called for a tightening up of the proposed new offence of corporate manslaughter, to ensure justice for relatives of workers killed due ...
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"We're Not Breaking Any Law"
2024-08-04(UK) WESTERN Isles council has hit back at claims that it is banning gay marriages, and says it is fully complying with legislation on civil partnersh...