Tag: current legal issues in the news 2021

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NBC News reports federal law enforcement ‘could have prevented’ Jan. 6 riot: ‘Did not act on intelligence’

  • August 24, 2024
NBC Nightly News’ Lester Holt introduced a segment Tuesday that detailed federal law enforcement agencies’ failures in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. In the segment, NBC News echoed the criticisms and concerns that conservatives have expressed since the attack occurred. “Now to our NBC News exclusive. The January 6 Committee’s final report was more than 800 pages. But some material did not make the cut, including much of its findings on the failures of federal law enforcement leading up to the attack,” Holt said. “The images of the attack on the Capitol stunned America and the world.…
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Sri Mulyani Applauds Issue of New Financial Sector Law

  • August 10, 2024
TEMPO. CO, Jakarta – President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo enacted the Draft Bill on the Development and Strengthening of the Financial Sector (PPSK) as Law No.4/2023 (PPSK Law). Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati explained that the government and House legislators managed to reach an agreement on five major points regulated in the PPSK Law. “The first is the improvement of financial sector authorities with a main focus on institutional; independence,” minister Sri mentioned in a written statement on Friday, January 13, 2023. The second and third aspect, Sri continued, is the improvement of governance and increasing public trust, and encouraging the…
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Mexican president tells Americans not to vote for DeSantis

  • July 7, 2023
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s president called on US citizens Monday not to vote for Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis because of his state’s enactment of a tough immigration bill. The comments about the Florida law, which the Mexican government has said is likely to cause discrimination against migrants, marks President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s second recent break with Mexico’s tradition of non-intervention in the politics of other countries. In March, he called Peru’s government racist and illegitimate. “We could not remain silent,” Lopez Obrador said of the Florida law at news conference Monday. Under the Florida law…
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BC parents seek the right to Sue for the wrongful death of children

  • June 29, 2023
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Under BC civil law, the value of human life is measured only by the victim’s future lost income if they have dependent children. Published June 24, 2023 • Last updated 4 days ago • 4 minute read Dean and Tara Stroup with a photo of their daughter Madeline, who died after a car crash in 2019. Tara Stroup is advocating to change BC’s wrongful death laws to allow families of victims to receive compensation. Photo by NICK PROCAYLO / PNG /PNGs Article content Tara Stroup lives “one thought away” from tears. Advertisements 2 This…
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Bodies of 2 Innu babies to be exhumed in the first for Quebec’s new law

  • June 22, 2023
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The bodies of two Innu infants who died of whooping cough in a hospital in Baie-Comeau in 1970 are going to be exhumed, a first for Quebec’s new law designed to help Indigenous families get answers about children who died alone in clinics or hospitals. “It’s quite incredible to believe that some families have been looking for answers for more than 40 years,” Ian Lafrenière, the CAQ minister responsible for relations with First Nations and Inuit, told CBC in an interview Thursday. I feel so guilty for leaving my child. I experienced shame, guilt…
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Phone hacking put me under intense pressure

  • June 15, 2023
Prince Harry pictured after giving evidence in the phone hacking trial against Mirror Group last week Until Prince Harry hit the headlines with his cases against News Group, Mirror Group and Associated Newspapers, phone hacking felt like ancient history. Back in 2011 it was big news, once the Guardian revealed the News of the World had intercepted the voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Millie Dowler. Rupert Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old paper. In 2012, the Leveson Inquiry looked into the culture, practices and ethics of the press and published its recommendations. But that was more than a decade ago. Done and…
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Foreign lawyers are restricted from working on national security cases in Hong Kong – National

  • May 15, 2023
Hong Kong’s legislature passed a legal amendment on Wednesday to prevent foreign lawyers working on national security cases, a restriction critics say will undermine fair trials and the right of defendants to choose their lawyers. The amendment enshrines in law a ruling from China’s top lawmaking body last December that Hong Kong courts must get the approval of the city’s leader before admitting a foreign lawyer without Hong Kong qualifications for national security cases. The use of foreign lawyers by both prosecutors and defense has long been part of the rule of law traditions in the former British colony and…
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‘Anti-woke’ group loses elections at the Law Society of Ontario

  • May 2, 2023
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Canada As the culture wars seep into various institutions, law societies have hardly been immune Published May 01, 2023 • 4 minute read Toronto’s Osgoode Hall, home of the Law Society of Ontario. Photo by Stan Behal/Postmedia/File Article content In the fight for control of the Law Society of Ontario, a slate of progressive candidates held the line against a group positioning themselves as the “anti-woke” alternative in board elections. Advertisements 2 This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS Enjoy the latest local, national and…