criminal law

Do You Know the Consequences of Texting and Driving?

April 19, 2013

Do You Know the Consequences of Texting and Driving? (U. S. Law and generally) Distracted driving has been a front burner issue for most legislatures across the United States during the past three years, largely based on the increasing accidents that involve texting. Even using a cell phone while driving is dangerous in many situations, […]

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Financial Crimes – Getting Advice & Representation

April 18, 2013

Financial crimes throughout England and Wales can be investigated and prosecuted by various authorities such as the police and HMRC. In fact HM Revenue and Customs have the equivalent powers to the police and other bodies. With cuts to budgets and money needing to be made bodies are more than ever pressured into seeking prosecution […]

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Santa Ana Residents Free to Vote for Medical Marijuana Clinics in 2014

March 28, 2013

Residents of Santa Ana, California, will get an opportunity to vote on one of the city’s hot topic issues – medical marijuana dispensaries. The city now bans these facilities, but this may change based on the voting tally scheduled for 2014. The Medical Cannabis and Restriction Initiative will not slide into the background completely if […]

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Gas firm heavily fined after explosion at work leads to severe injuries to worker

March 28, 2013

A large gas company with over 1,300 permanent employees has been heavily fined after a criminal prosecution found that it was guilty of serious health and safety breaches in the workplace. Calor Gas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dutch company SHV and a market-leader in liquified petroleum gas (“LPG”), employed Mr Kevin Bates and Mr […]

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Theft of Trade Secrets: Compliance Programs

March 27, 2013

Because the Federal Economic Espionage Act applies to the presence of unauthorized data within a business, firms must be vigilant not only in guarding their own trade secrets but in protecting against “inward leakage,” that is, the flow of sensitive data into a business enterprise via employees, consultants, or even vendor sales personnel. The most […]

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Health and safety in the workplace and HSE prosecutions

March 26, 2013

Health and safety in the workplace is an issue that is often at the forefront of employers’ minds. In this post we’re going to take a brief look at what health and safety legislation an employer has to comply with and the consequences of failing to comply with this legislation. In doing so we’ll examine […]

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Charges for Which You Cannot Receive an Expungement

March 21, 2013

(US law) Most individuals get the chance to start over a new leaf – regardless of their past mistakes. Some crimes will haunt an offender for the rest of their lives, simply because their criminal records cannot be expunged. A California expungement grants many criminals a chance to wipe the slate clean, and in so […]

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Attorney General Defends Charges Brought by House over Weapons Trafficking Initiatives

March 21, 2013

Eric Holder has spent his entire career as the adversary of criminal defense attorneys; first as a US attorney, then as Deputy Attorney General, and since assuming the office of United States Attorney General. However, the head of the Department of Justice will need his own criminal defense attorney to fight the criminal contempt of […]

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Corporate manslaughter – an introduction

March 21, 2013

Corporate manslaughter has been in the media spotlight recently (see the floating of a potential prosecution of Sir David Nicholson over the Mid-Staffs incident, the charging of a watersports club with corporate manslaughter, and the charging of a sole director with manslaughter. Little is known by the public about corporate manslaughter, though. In this post […]

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How Crime Television Is Affecting Our Juries

February 14, 2013

How Crime Television Is Affecting Our Juries U.S. News and World Report attribute CSI’s ability to garner 60 million viewers to the “sexy, fast, and remarkably certain” presentation of how science works in the crime field. According to Psychology Professor Tom Tyler, the most significant effect of crime shows like C.S.I. has been a higher […]

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