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In April 2025, Guyana’s Parliament passed the Criminal Procedure (Paper Committals) Act 2024 (Commencement) Order 2025. This order activated the Criminal Procedure (Paper Committals) Act 2024 (the ...
The inquiry against Justice Yashwant Varma has not merely invited public scrutiny, it has forced open foundational questions about the architecture of our Const ...
The Law and Justice Division has prepared an initial draft titled 'Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2025' to update the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. The initial draft has ...
Members of the Criminal Law and Procedure Review Commission hold their first meeting of the year on Feb. 29, 2024, inside commission chairman Magistrate Judge Johnathan R. Quan’s courtroom.
In a move aimed at protecting innocent citizens from what has become widely known as the “arrest and case trade”, the interim ...
To prevent harassment in false and fabricated cases, the government has amended Section 173A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, allowing magistrates to discharge accused persons if preliminary ...
House sets December deadline for criminal procedure law revision - Politics - The Jakarta PostThu, June 19, 2025 Published on Jun. 18, 2025 Published on 2025-06-18T20:46:31+07:00 ...
15 laws and one ordinance recently passed by the 15th National Assembly (NA) and its Standing Committee came into effect on ...
4. Since the Revision Applications were disposed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge on the question of jurisdiction only and he has not considered the merits of the matter, it will not be fair ...
The Nulane decision provides a salutary reminder that the allocation of judges to such cases is a highly consequential ...
The object of recording the complainant's statement and witnesses, if any, is to ascertain the truth. The learned Magistrate is duty-bound to put questions to the complainant to elicit the truth. The ...