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Rights and wrongs of separation of powers
Melbourne :: Australia | about 17 hours ago
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On May 5, 1990, a gentleman called Gregory Wayne Kable stabbed his wife to death in their house. This followed a bitter custody dispute over their two young children. He was charged with murder, but later the Director of Public Prosecutions accepted a...
Tags: Gregory Wayne Kable, High Court, Australia, Melbourne, Australian constitutional law, Supreme court, Fardon v Attorney-General, Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions, films, Gamer, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Preventive detention, Law Crime
No tears for Hotene (Newstalk ZB)
Wanganui :: New Zealand | 7 days ago
Credibility The family of a woman raped and murdered by Taffy Hotene say there was never any hope of him being rehabilitated...Hotene attacked Auckland woman Kylie Jones, days after being released from jail where he was being held for three attacks on women in Wanganui.
Tags: Taffy Hotene, New Zealand, Wanganui, Law Crime, Criminal law, Sensible Sentencing Trust, Kylie Minogue, New Zealand Press Association, Statutory law, Law enforcement in India, Territorial Authorities of New Zealand, McVicar, Preventive detention, Parole, Murder
Preventive detention sought for schoolgirl attacker (NZPA)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 8 days ago
Credibility The Crown is to seek an indefinite prison sentence for a Christchurch labourer who today admitted sex attacks on two Christchurch schoolgirls. Christopher Dean Matthews, 44, was due for jury trial next week but days of discussions led to his five guilty...
Tags: Christopher Dean Matthews, preventive detention, old girl, New Zealand, Auckland, Law enforcement in India, Criminal law, Statutory law, Law Crime
Preventive detention should not invade personal liberty: SC
New Delhi :: India | 18 days ago
Credibility New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that a person cannot be detained under the Preventive Detention Act in a casual manner as it would violate his fundamental right to personal liberty. "Persons found guilty of economic offences have to be dealt with...
Tags: preventive detention, persons liberty, India, New Delhi, Statutory law, COFEPOSA, Human rights, Criminal law, Law enforcement in India, Social Issues, Law Crime
Preventive detention for car-boot kidnapper
Wellington :: New Zealand | 2 months ago
Credibility Car-boot kidnapper Nigel Whakarau, who attacked a Wairarapa real estate agent trying to force her into the boot of his car, has been given preventive detention. Whakarau, 39, who in 1996 committed an eerily similiar attack on a Taranaki man, had pleaded...
Tags: preventive detention, Wairarapa, estate agent, real estate, Nigel Craig Whakarau, Nigel Whakarau, Wellington, High Court, New Zealand
Dean Cameron sentenced
Christchurch :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
Credibility Dean Cameron has been sentenced to a minimum of 19 years in prison for the murder of Marie Davis. Cameron, 39, was found guilty of raping and murdering the 15-year-old Papanui High School pupil on April 6 last year. He was also sentenced to serve a minimum...
Former Bagram detainees claim abuse, neglect
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility This time the allegations centre on the US detention facility at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. The Pentagon is denying the allegations and while US President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay within a year, he has not decided...
Tags: Bagram, preventive detention
Preventive detention for Taranaki sex offender (NZPA)
Amman :: Jordan | 8 months ago
Credibility Preventive detention for Taranaki sex offender April 8, 2009, 11:42 am A man with a 30-year record of sex offences against teenagers was jailed indefinitely when he appeared for sentence in the High Court at New Plymouth today.
Tags: NZPA, sex offender, sexual predator, preventive detention, Taranaki
Preventive detention for paedophile
Napier :: New Zealand | 8 months ago
Credibility The 66-year-old abused boys between the ages of 10 and 13 in his flat and on his boat. Justice Ronald Young told the court Draper has been committing sexual offences for more than 20 years, with convictions in 1986, 1988 and 1996. The judge said his...
Tags: preventive detention
Murderer and rapist to appeal
Dunedin :: New Zealand | 9 months ago
Credibility Convicted murderer and rapist Liam Reid is appealing both his convictions and sentence. In December, the 36-year-old was sentenced to preventive detention, with a minimum non-parole period of 26 years for the murder and rape of deaf woman Emma Agnew...
Tags: appeal sentence, Liam Reid, Emma Agnew, convictions murderer, rapist liam, minimum non, preventive detention
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