While both are commonplace in the landscape of the criminal law, they are not natural features.
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As far as the criminal law is concerned, computer forensics has come a long way.
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It is highly unusual for changes to the criminal law to apply to trials already in progress.
The six were questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept telephone communications contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1997.
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Our journalists work within the criminal law and the PCC code of conduct.
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We look at the criminal law for most of us, are people that violate the law and upset our society.
The Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2013 seeks to replace an ordinance, or interim law, which the government introduced last month.
Ms Fleming is challenging the constitutionality of the Criminal Law Suicide Act 1993, alleging it discriminates between able-bodied and disabled people.
Thirdly, there is a due process to deal with any allegation through the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) and the criminal law.
The mother of two adult children challenged the constitutionality of the Criminal Law Suicide Act 1993, alleging it discriminates between able-bodied and disabled people.
It may be the closest we can collectively come to punishment, where the criminal law and contractual pension rights don't offer means of revenge.
The mother of two adult children is challenging the constitutionality of the Criminal Law Suicide Act 1993, alleging it discriminates between able-bodied and disabled people.
But the case may expose a conflict between constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion on the one hand and the criminal law on the other.
MPs are not above the criminal law - but it is up to police whether they re-open their investigations into Denis MacShane, MPs have been told.
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Police said the man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office, contrary to Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977.
Ryan Cleary, 19, of Wickford, Essex, was charged last month with five offences under the Criminal Law and Computer Misuse Acts, including an alleged hacking attack against Soca's website.
The Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2013 is meant to replace an interim law which was introduced last month following the brutal gang rape of a young woman in New Delhi.
Ms Fleming's legal team claimed the Section 2.2 of the Criminal Law (Suicide) Act, which renders it an offence to aide, abet, counsel or procure the suicide of another, was unconstitutional.
He said there was "always the risk of rogue individuals who behave very badly - they must be dealt with through the criminal law as has been seen with the Winterbourne View staff".
It has to stick within the criminal law.
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While Skilling was an important instance of judicial resistance to vagueness in the criminal law, the books are filled with laws, like the one in Cahill, that leave doubt as to what conduct amounts to a crime.
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In Scotland, the devolved administration has already tightened dog-control legislation, enabling enforcement officers to impose sanctions on the owners of out-of-control dogs and extending the criminal law on dog control to cover attacks taking place on private property.
Any thought that due process puts beyond the reach of the criminal law all individual associational relationships, unless accompanied by the commission of specific acts of criminality, is dispelled by familiar concepts of the law of conspiracy and complicity.
Ackroyd was due to stand trial charged with taking part in a string of cyber-attacks, but today pleaded guilty to one charge of carrying out an unauthorised act to impair the operation of a computer, contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977.
Alison Levitt QC, principal legal advisor to the director of public prosecutions, said in a statement that Mr Webster was charged with "two offences of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977".
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The criminal law should once again be more like the common law, with judges and juries not merely finding fact but making law on the basis of universal principles of fairness, circumstance, and seriousness, and crafting penalties to the exigencies of the crime.
The applicable criminal law in federal law is the Computer Abuse Act of 1984, which has been amended several times over the years, said Reed Freeman, another e-commerce lawyer at Arent Fox.
Nisga'a leaders argue that they remain Canadians, with the same rights and subject to the same criminal law as others.
Understanding the basis of criminal law makes it easier to understand why violent and possibly criminal behavior in perceived differently when the violence occurs in a sporting event.
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