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The Role of a Criminal Law Paralegal

Paralegal Bootcamp

So, what are the things we do that get YOU thinking this could be the best career decision you make as a Criminal Law Paralegal? Caveat – there is so much information about what Criminal Law Paralegals do, I wish I could relay to you everything Perhaps I could share more in-depth details at another time.

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Afghanistan dispatches: ‘It is not the application of Islamic criminal law that frightens us, it is that it is applied without due process…”

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Thus Islamic law is mainly (to my understanding, according to most of modern Islamic criminal law academics) the Discretionary punishments. In Islamic criminal law, due process is like a wall to hinder the state from abusing the prescribed punishments and applying sadistic physical punishments.

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Criminal Law Professors Help Exonerate Falsely Convicted Man

Above The Law

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Slovakia Parliament fast-tracks vote on proposed criminal law reforms

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Slovakia’s Parliament announced on Thursday that it will adopt a fast-track legislative process to vote on Prime Minister Robert Fico’s proposal to reform Slovakia’s criminal law and dissolve the Special Prosecutor’s Office.

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India Parliament lower house passes post-colonial criminal law reform bills while opposition members suspended

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The lower house of India’s Parliament passed three criminal law amendment bills on Wednesday that are set to replace the existing criminal laws in the country, still largely a legacy from the British colonial era that ended in 1947.

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Slovakia president urges lawmakers to reconsider proposed criminal law reforms that prompted street protests

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Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová urged lawmakers on Thursday to reconsider Prime Minister Robert Fico’s proposal to reform Slovakia’s criminal law and dissolve the Special Prosecutor’s Office. It was also worried that the reforms would endanger the rule of law in Slovakia.

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India president assents to post-colonial criminal law reform bills

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India’s president assented Monday to three new post-colonial criminal law reform bills, paving the way for their enactment. The objective of these bills is to revamp the criminal justice system in India, which has long been governed by laws inherited from British rule.