| OSC waits for Bob Waxman case to wrap up in criminal court | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:45:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | The former president of Philip Services Corp.'s metal division is to appear in criminal court in Hamilton on Friday and before the Ontario Securities Commission a week later. Waxman faces 12 charges of fraud over $5,000 laid by the RCMP in 2005. The charges allege that while he ran Philip's metals division he cheated the company of $28 million by orchestrating a complicated series of trades in scrap copper. The discovery in 1997 that Philip had 50,000 tonnes of copper on its books, but not in its storage yards, helped spark the company's downfall, costing investors as much as $3.4 billion. In September he waived the balance of a preliminary hearing on the charges and opted to go straight to trial. While criminal charges are winding their way through the judicial system, the OSC is delaying its hearing into allegations he breached securities laws.... | |
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| | | Congo-Kinshasa: ICC Hearing Could Pave Way for Court's First Trial | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:45:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) must pursue more charges against Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga and prosecute others responsible for heinous crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) if the court is going to bring justice to the Congolese people, Human Rights Watch said today. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, who has been in the ICC's custody since March 16, is the former leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), an armed group responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Ituri region of northeastern DRC. The ICC has charged him with enlisting and conscripting children as soldiers and using them to participate actively in the conflict in Ituri. On November 9, the court will begin a crucial hearing in The Hague to determine if there is sufficient evidence against Lubanga to move ahead with what would be the ICC's first-ever trial.... | |
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| | | IBM Paid Agent Who Bribed China Bank Chief, Beijing Court Says | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 6:46:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp., the world's biggest computer-services company, paid $225,000 to a sales agent who helped bribe the former chairman of the country's fourth-biggest bank, a Beijing court verdict said. IBM was identified by Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court as one of three companies introduced by the agent, Zou Jianhua, to former China Construction Bank Corp. Chairman Zhang Enzhao. The court determined Zou paid 2.68 million yuan ($340,000) in bribes to the banker, who was sentenced to 15 years in jail on Nov. 2. ``I have no knowledge of the matter,'' said Amanda Garland, IBM Asia Pacific's communication director. ``We're not going to comment on the court document.'' Fidelity National Financial Inc., the biggest U.S.... | |
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| | | Clerk of court charged with altering case | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:45:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Wake County deputy clerk of court has been charged with altering a court case in order to have a criminal charge dropped against a defendant, court records show.The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation charged Jermaine Brown, 32, of 2504 Tryon Grove Drive, Apt. 202, with felony obstruction of justice, according to an arrest warrant filed Thursday at the Wake County Magistrate's Office.Brown is a deputy clerk of Wake County Superior Court.Brown, who has been with the clerk's office for over seven years, described the charge as a "misunderstanding.""I was trying to help somebody," he said.He is one of 116 deputy clerks under Wake Clerk of Court Janet Pueschel.Brown has been with the clerk's office since Feb. 8, 1999, with an annual salary of $32,203, Pueschel said this afternoon."He was suspended without pay Thursday pending the outcome of the investigation," she said.... | |
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| | | Zane State class sees appeals court action | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 2:45:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | ZANESVILLE - Students from a criminal justice class at Zane State College were able to watch three justices from the Fifth District Court of Appeals hear cases at the Muskingum County Courthouse Thursday morning. Mike Watton, a criminal justice professor at the college, brought about 20 students to see the appeals court hear cases including one of a local man sentenced to 30 years to life for killing a county deputy. .... | |
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| | | Court resumes hearing Wednesday in Anfal case | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:11:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | BAGHDAD, Oct 10 (KUNA) -- Head of the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court Judge Mohammad Al-Oraibi closed on Tuesday the 14th court hearing in the Anfal case, ordering court to resume on Wednesday. The court listened to five female witnesses today, who said that some Kurdish female detainees had been raped during the Anfal military campaigns. One of the witnesses told the story of a Kurdish girl who was raped and killed before the eyes of her parents by an Iraqi officer named Jafaar Al-Hellawi. The judge ordered Saddam and his aides out of the courtroom during the first part of the hearing today as they continued to break courtroom regulations. It is the fourth time Judge Al-Oraibi kicks Saddam out of the courtroom. Also, one of the accused physically abused one of the guards while being escorted out of the courtroom after being kicked out by the judge.... | |
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| | | Cameroon: Criminal Procedure Code - Innovations on Court Judgements | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:45:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | "Book V of The Criminal Procedure code deals with the execution of Court Judgments in Criminal matters. The Book is divided into four parts and thirty-nine articles. Just like the entire criminal procedure code, Book V carries a lot of innovations particularly with regard to the Code d'Instruction Criminel' which is applicable in the French speaking provinces of Cameroon. As a matter of fact, the entire Criminal Procedure Code is celebrated for the guaranty of a fair and equitable trial with fundamental respect to the rights of suspects and accused persons. This extreme fairness in the treatment of suspects and accused persons has led critiques to have the mistaken impression that the Code is geared towards protecting suspects and offenders to the detriment of the victims. Meanwhile, the code barely anchors on the principle of presumption of innocence prior to the conviction by the trial courts.... | |
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| | | NJ Court: Children who experiment with sex can be criminals | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:45:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | TRENTON, N.J. - Some children who play doctor are criminal sex offenders in the eyes of the New Jersey Supreme Court. The high court ruled Tuesday that a 12-year-old boy who experimented with a douche bottle on his younger half brother must register as a sex offender under Megan's Law requirements, even though there was no overt sexual motivation for the crime. The ruling overturned a lower court ruling last year that said the boy - identified in court papers only as T.T. - would not be forced to register with police for life or have his home address and details of the offense publicized because there was no sexual intent to his crime. "The concern was the breadth of that ruling," said Warren County Assistant Prosecutor Howard A. McGinn, who argued the case for the state.... | |
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| | | Palm Beach County court records online after 10 difficult years | | Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 10:45:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | After more than 10 years of failed contracts, glitches and political turf battles, Palm Beach County's criminal and traffic court records are finally going online.Thirty years worth of records currently stored on the Clerk of Court's antiquated mainframe computer system can be viewed on the Internet beginning Oct. 17 -- assuming everything goes according to plan. With the click of a mouse, the public will be able to view traffic citations, court dates and other information docketed in a court file. Traffic citations can be paid online with a credit card. Until now, all these things required a trip to the courthouse, which often came with parking headaches and long lines. .... | |
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| | | NEW: Criminal court to reconsider charge against DeLay | | Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 10:45:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Texas' highest criminal court agreed today to hear prosecutors' request to reinstate charges against former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay that he conspired to violate state law. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed to hear oral arguments in the case. Had the high court rejected an appeal from prosecutors, DeLay's criminal case would have returned to state district court for trial. DeLay was indicted along with two associates last year on charges of conspiring to violate the election law, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering as a result of a campaign finance investigation run by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle. State District Judge Pat Priest threw out the election law charge, agreeing with DeLay's lawyers that the statute was passed after DeLay's alleged activities in the 2002 elections.... | |
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