Fine, as a form of punishment under Indian Penal Law, is a pecuniary penalty imposed by the court upon conviction of an offender. It is one of the recognized punishments under Section 53 of the Indian ...

Decree-Law No. 9 of 2025 has been issued, repealing Article 153 of the Penal Code, which was originally enacted under Law No.

House of Reps has said that a bill to amend Nigeria’s Penal and Criminal Codes, aiming to abolish or reduce the use of the ...

In 2023, Parliament came up with three new Acts repealing the old criminal and evidence laws and the Indian Penal Code, 1860, was replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The new criminal ...

In its latest affidavit filed on February 24, the Centre reasoned that penal laws impose a restriction on freedoms and rights of persons only for a specific period, that is, the time of prison ...

A penal law-era piece of British legislation banning the use of Irish in courts has been repealed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn. The Administration of Justice ...

Irish language campaigners had been calling for the repeal of the 1737 penal law, which sets out a fine of £20 handed out for languages being used in UK courts outside of English - close to £ ...

But it required the repeal of a penal law from 1737 which made it "a criminal offence to use any language other than English" in court. According to the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), Secretary of ...

1737," a penal-law era piece of legislation that bans the use of Irish in courts in the North. Whilst the new Identity and Language Act was passed in December 2022, the clause triggering the ...

The case involved a New York law that allowed people to sue corporate ... under the full faith and credit clause, to enforce penal judgments. But the justices made clear that relatively few ...