Morocco: Lawyer welcomes upped jail terms of defendants in child rape case

The Rabat Court of Appeal on Thursday night (Apr. 13) increased the sentences of three men accusing of raping an 11-year old girl.

The three defendants had pleaded not guilty. The new conviction was a relief for the victim’s legal team who appealed to the original judgement.

“We thank the court and the Moroccan justice system for responding to our request to review the first verdict which shocked everyone,” lawyer Abdelfattah Zahrach said.

A lower court initially sentenced one attacker to two years, the two others to 18 months each.

The new sentences of 20 years for one and 10

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Singh vows NDP won’t back any Liberal back-to-work laws if the public sector strikes tomorrow

‘Never consider that as an option for us, because we’re not going to do that,’ Singh said he told Trudeau

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OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he will not support any potential back-to-work legislation tabled by the government if 155,000 federal public servants go on strike, which could force the Liberals to look to the Conservatives for

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St. Louis judge files to hold Kim Gardner in contempt after no prosecutors show for murder trial

st. LOUIS — A judge on Monday filed to hold St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner in contempt of court after prosecutors from her office didn’t show up for a murder trial.

Jonathon Jones, 18, was set to face trial starting Monday on charges he shot and killed a man in 2021 near the Gateway Arch grounds, but no one from Gardner’s office appeared for the beginning of trial. The prosecutor assigned to the case is on sick leave.

Judge Scott A. Millikan filed an order for Gardner’s office to show cause for why she should not be held

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Trump attorney says ‘there won’t be a standoff at Mar-a-Lago’ if he’s indicted in NY

An attorney for Donald Trump says the former president would not refuse to surrender to authorities if he is indicted in the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into a hush-money deal from his 2016 presidential run.

“There won’t be a standoff at Mar-a-Lago with the Secret Service and the Manhattan DA’s office,” Joe Tacopina told The New York Daily News.

Tacopina said Trump, whom he described as a survivor, would find a way to use any charges filed against him to help him politically in the end.

“Most people would collapse under the weight of this,” he said. “He seems to

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Police are sending incorrect messaging of law, lawyer says

A Vancouver defense lawyer is calling out the Surrey RCMP for incorrect messaging around distracted driving law.

Kyla Lee told the Now-Leader on Tuesday (March 14) part of the problem is ICBC and police are sending different messages about what’s legal and what isn’t.

“Nobody is trained or informed of the law, nobody’s actually clearing their comms through a lawyer who’s familiar with it,” said Lee, a criminal defense and impaired driving lawyer with expertise in defending distracted cases in court.

“The public messaging is incorrect. No wonder the public is confused.”

On Thursday (March. 9), the Surrey RCMP and

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Top law firms invest in content marketing “which does not work”

Top law firms invest in content marketing “which does not work”

Emails: Only some firms send regular updates

A “significant proportion” of large law firms are investing in content or ‘inbound’ marketing schemes that “simply don’t work as they should” and could even damage their reputation, a report has been found.

Researchers said a “staggering” 19% of the top 100 law firms let people sign up for legal updates – often with quite complex preference forms – only to never actually send any.

Marketing consultancy Thought Spark said it was essential for law firms to develop inbound strategies to “engage and retain potential clients”, leveraging platforms and data to build a

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Postal Code For Chinese Manufacturers To Be Required By US CBP Beginning This Weekend

Postal Code For Chinese Manufacturers To Be Required By US CBP Beginning This Weekend

As part of a continued effort to enforce the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) and to provide early warning to importers and their representatives that goods may have been produced in the Xinjian Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ) will require businesses to provide a valid postal code for Chinese manufacturers from which they are importing goods when reporting via the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) system beginning on March 8, 2023. The following Q&A will help your business understand the steps it needs to take to comply with the requirements:

Q. When does this

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