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Two legal stories of note today:- Prosecutors want drunk driver jailed for life:
Drunk and eager to get home on Jan. 20, 2006, Raymond Charles Yellowknee, then a 32-year-old repeat impaired driver, made a decision that could trigger a legal precedent in Canada.
The aboriginal man from Northern Alberta stole a running pickup truck and eventually crashed head-on into a Pontiac Sunfire carrying a young mother and her three daughters near Slave Lake, 250 kilometres north of Edmonton. All four died.
Crown prosecutors in Alberta are now trying to have him deemed a dangerous offender - a rare legal move that could potentially keep the chronic drunk driver and father of three in jail indefinitely. A court-ordered dangerous offender designation - the Criminal Code's most punitive designation - is usually reserved for people who have committed violent and/or sexual crimes. - Panel Decries Terrorism Blacklist Process: U.N., E.U. Methods Violate Basic Human Rights Principles, European Committee Says
The methods used by the United Nations and the European Union for blacklisting terrorism suspects are "totally arbitrary" and "violate the fundamental principles of human rights and rule of law," a European human rights panel said Monday.
The Council of Europe's legal committee urged an overhaul of international regulations so that individuals and groups being blacklisted -- which imposes a freeze on assets and a ban on traveling -- would have access to evidence against them, rights to a fair trial or impartial review within a reasonable time and compensation for wrongful designation as a terrorist.
Labels: Comparative Law, International Law, Precedent
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