The High Court on Wednesday granted permission to Southern District Council chairman Lo Kin-hei to legally challenge a decision by the council's secretary last year, when she failed to facilitate a council discussion about the police. The proposed agenda item concerned how the Southern Police District handled cases involving mentally incapacitated persons. This followed a…...
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said Ireland’s illegal adoption scandal is “shocking” and the Government will deal with it in a “caring way”.In a strong contribution to his parliamentary party meeting, Mr Martin was speaking ahead of Wednesday night’s broadcast on RTÉ television of its investigation into how widespread the practice of illegal adoptions was in…...
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Lawyer Anne-France Goldwater has served notice she'll seek to challenge the absence of legal protection for common-law couples in Quebec. Author of the article: Linda Gyulai • Montreal Gazette Family lawyer Anne-France Goldwater has dedicated her career to fighting for changes to Quebec's Civil Code to assign the same rights and obligations to common-law couples…...
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Being paid millions of dollars to be mediocre and give minimal effort at your job honestly sounds like the dream. It’s even better when that job involves traveling the country playing basketball. This is why I envy Josh Smith. It’s not a diss to Smith to say that he was an average NBA player. There’ve…...
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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta, an accused in the Television Rating Points (TRP) rigging scam. Justice P D Naik granted bail to Dasgupta (55) on a personal bond of Rs 2 lakh and two solven sureties of the same amount. The…...
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday interrogated TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh for more than six hours in connection with its probe into the multi- crore Saradha chit fund scam. Ghosh reached the CGO Complex office of the ED at Salt Lake area of the city at 11 am for questioning, sources in the agency said.…...
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A Nigerian man, Prince Chukwama Hezekiah, has been arrested by police officers in the Junagadh district of India in connection with an online scam of Rs 1.32 crore (N52 Million) with a Mendarda-based person.According to the Times of India, Junagadh police arrested Hezekiah who uses two names, George Martins and Emmanuel Chukwuma Hezekiah, to defraud…...
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Umaru Tafida Argungu, the former Senator who represented Kebbi North in the 6th Senate was arraigned before Justice Mohammed Mohammed of the Sokoto State High Court today for fraud.Senator Argungu was arraigned by The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on one count charge of criminal misappropriation of public funds to the tune of N419,…...
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union said Wednesday that Britain’s “unilateral action” on trade rules will breach international law and is threatening legal action as post-Brexit tensions continue to escalate between the two sides.Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič said in a statement that UK’s decision to unilaterally extend a grace period on checks for goods moving…...
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Security officials have dismissed concerns that proposed changes to the Immigration Ordinance relating to the detention of asylum seekers would violate a common law principle ensuring they may only be detained for a reasonable period of time. The Hardial Singh Principles state that a person can’t continue to be detained, if the screening of non-refoulment…...
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