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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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CRIMINAL PENALTIES AND CIVIL CAUSE OF ACTION PROBLEM Penalties available under current law are insufficient to deter individuals and facilities from violating provisions of the Mental Health Code and chemical dependency laws.
OPC drafted 8 Bills to amend offence provisions in Commonwealth legislation to make them consistent with the Criminal Code, which applied to all such offences from December 2001.
If a judgment in this country is based on the Act on international co-operation in criminal proceedings or on the regulations given in Chapter 2, Section 2 of the Penal Code, the court may not impose a penalty that is more severe than the most rigorous punishment allowed for the offence by the law in the place where the act was committed.
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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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Article 30 inserts a Title IV in the Code of Criminal Procedure that entails a power to require all qualified persons to decrypt or to hand over decryption keys if encrypted data are encountered during an investigation (art.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Bradford sought a declaration that he is no longer subject to possible criminal liability pursuant to Penal Code section 12021, a statute prohibiting the possession of concealable firearms by convicted felons.
Both the Constitution and the Criminal Code include broad national security and antidefamation provisions that the Government used to restrict such freedoms severely.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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The criminal penalties attached to Penal Code Section 142 leave the officer no room to exercise his/her discretion in determining if a crime has occurred and if the person's civil rights would be violated if placed under arrest.
The Criminal Procedure Code provides for various rights of detainees, including time limits on pretrial detention and the right of the accused to have a lawyer present during interrogation; however, in practice the authorities sometimes ignored these legal safeguards.
CRIMINAL VERSUS CIVIL STATUTES: THE PENAL CODE When the government seeks to protect the peace or safety of its citizens and determines that punishment by imprisonment, fine or death is appropriate to ensure such peace and safety, then it provides for such punishments in the law it passes and that law is considered part of the criminal law (also known as the Penal Code.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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NGOs started successfully the campaign against the adoption of the draft Code of Criminal Procedure that according to independent experts would increase the violations the constitutional rights of citizens.
The criminal code is amended to decriminalize abortions done by a doctor in a hospital after approval for the procedure has been given by a "therapeutic abortion committee" who has judged that a woman's life or health "would" or "would be likely" to be affected by continuation of pregnancy.
It is considered likely that a stronger media ethics code would have to be in place before the Criminal Defamation provisions are repealed.
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