... , in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it; a breach or violation of some public right or duty due to a whole community, considered as a community (http:// www.thelawdictionary.org/crime). This definition of crime is from the American law dictionary which differs slightly from the Australian definition under the bureau of statistics,- (CRIME) 'An offence punishable by ... the 2006 Law Reform Commission report from Western Australia which produced a lengthy paper detailing the opportunities for Indigenous Australian customary law to exist within Western Australian l...

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... USERS' PERSPECTIVES?', (1994) LEWIS, N, THE CITIZEN'S CHARTER AND NEXT STEPS: A NEW WAY OF GOVERNING', (1993) COOPER, D, THE CITIZEN'S CHARTER AND RADICAL DEMOCRACY: EMPOWEREMENT AND EXLUSION WITHIN CITIZENSHIP DISCOURSE, (1993) WEBSITES WWW.UKONLINE.GOV.UK WWW.CABINETOFFICE.GOV.UK WWW.PARLIAMENT.THE-STATIONERY-OFFICE.CO.UK WWW.SERVICEFIRST.CO.UK WWW.BUTTERWORTHS.CO.UK ...

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... help paralegals in their everyday operations. These web sites are; the Natioal Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA), http://www.paralegals.com/home.html; the National Association for Legal Assistants, http://www.nala.org/index.htm; (my favorite) the American Association for Paralegal Education (AAFPE), http://www.aafpe.org/. I went to these and other web sites to investigate and what I found out was that ... WCC associates with A.A.F.P.E. and your name (Ippolito) was on the web site. Also I went to the New York State Unified Court System web site at: www.courts.state.ny.us and I ...

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... the grade 12 students, around 50% have tried marijuana at least once and around 24% were regular users. Approximately 600,000 Canadians have a criminal record for simple possession of marijuana. (www.drug-statistic.com). Finally they would find out how much it is costing government to enforce Canada's pot laws is estimated at 300 million dollars, with only 20,000 people ... . In British Columbia alone it is estimated that the value of the marijuana industry is anywhere between $2 billion and $10 billion, making it on of British Colombia's top three industries. (www.drug-statistics.com) i...

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... become powerful tools in a company's success. Yahoo.com and Amazon.com is classic examples of how small start up companies can successfully compete with multi-million dollar corporations over the WWW. A domain name gives a company an identity and a symbol for future recognition by consumers. The online business community has come to recognise the versatility and importance of domain names, and have ... . In the UK there was a case where a trademark owner was successful against ill-motivated "cyber-squatters". "Cyber-squatting" is where a person registers the domain name of a well-known c...

• Word Count: 2877
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... have their views taken into account on all matters that affect them; the right to play, rest and leisure and the right to be free from all forms of violence" (www.crights.org.uk, accessed 10/11/03). By adopting the Convention the UK government agreed to abide by its aims in protecting children and promoting their rights to participate in ... Government's second report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. This referred to "the encouraging progress we as a nation are making in implementing the convention's wide-ranging provisions" (www.unicef.org.uk, accessed 10/11/03). "By contra...

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... have their views taken into account on all matters that affect them; the right to play, rest and leisure and the right to be free from all forms of violence" (www.crights.org.uk, accessed 10/11/03). By adopting the Convention the UK government agreed to abide by its aims in protecting children and promoting their rights to participate in ... Government's second report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. This referred to "the encouraging progress we as a nation are making in implementing the convention's wide-ranging provisions" (www.unicef.org.uk, accessed 10/11/03). "By contra...

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... - that the accretion of legalized vices is debilitating, that we are a less virtuous society since gambling spilled out from Las Vegas to "riverboats" and state lotteries across the country" (www.time.com.) Many are also concerned with the potential rise of violence that would occur if marijuana were legalized. Contrary to the belief of many, the high rate of crime ... ...

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... Aboriginal peoples was almost twice the Canadian average: 19.4 percent compared to 10 percent. In the same year, the unemployment rate for the on-reserve Indian population was 31 percent" (www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ai/awpi/fac_e.html) ". The low unemployment rate leads to violence and crime among their communities, the federal government and the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, fail ... ...

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... grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights." - www.amnesty.org Amnesty has followed this mission statement and face several issues including the latest abductions and murders of women. Amnesty addresses governments, intergovernmental organizations, political parties to reveal human ... ...

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... not longer possible for them to refuse or consent health care, if they do require care in an emergency situation. As Judge McHugh said in 1991 in Marion's Case (http://www.Austlii.edu.au) "Consent is not necessary where a surgical procedure or medical treatment must be performed in an emergency and the patient does not have the capacity to consent and ... ...

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