The University of Maine School of Law is trying to reestablish a criminal justice legal clinic for student attorneys, but funding it could be a roadblock in a tight ...

NOW THE GOVERNOR IS SAYING THE LAWS NEED TO BE CHANGED SO THAT THE STATE HAS INFORMATION ABOUT SOMEONE’S CRIMINAL RECORD UP FRONT. NEWS NINE FIRST REPORTED THAT RICHARD BROWN SPENT YEARS IN ...

Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur has successfully organized a one-day National Conference titled “From Legislation to Practice: Assessing the Implementation of New Criminal Laws” on ...

“This is wrong what is happening in UP. Every day in and day out, civil matters are being converted into criminal… This is an absolute breakdown of the rule of law,” Chief Justice of India Sanjiv ...

The court directed the state's Director General of Police to submit an affidavit and summoned an investigating officer to explain the misuse of criminal law in a money dispute case from Noida.

“Every day, civil suits are being converted to criminal cases. It is absurd. Disputes over civil issues cannot be turned into offences… There is a complete breakdown of rule of law in Uttar Prades ...

State lawmakers are still divided on how to approach several budget issues, including reforms to the state’s discovery law. Discovery refers to the process of sharing evidence in criminal cases.

The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on the Uttar Pradesh Police over frequent petitions to convert civil cases into criminal ones and said that the pleas are wrong and depict a “complete ...

HB518, otherwise known as the Prenatal Equal Protection Act, would also delete a provision in current state law that prohibits ... would expand list of criminal charges with no right to bail ...

The Trump administration will continue to require Toronto-Dominion Bank to retain an independent monitor as part of a $3.1 billion settlement with the US over failures to prevent money laundering, ...

This is complete breakdown of the rule of law," the court added. The CJI had raised concerns about civil cases being converted into criminal ones earlier in December 2024 as well. He noted that ...

The False Claims Act (FCA), known as “Lincoln’s Law” because of its origins in ... has taken steps that may reduce white-collar criminal enforcement in some areas, it has also signaled ...