Where defendant pleadad guilty as an armed habitual criminal with a predicate offense later found void ab initio, he may be charged with lesser-included offenses with no predicate offense.

Criminal procedure in South Africa refers to the adjudication process of that country's criminal law. It forms part of procedural or adjectival law, and describes the means by which its substantive ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the pendency of investigation and grant of prosecution sanction against a ...

The Investigation is one of the flagship projects of the South African Law Reform Commission. The Investigation entails a comprehensive review of the Criminal Procedure Act No.51 of 1977 (CPA) and all ...

An ITV News and Evening Standard investigation has revealed flaws in the fast-track legal procedure. But what is the Single ...

Where defendant was confined for longer than four months to restore competency to stand trial, district court was not required to dismiss indictment with prejudice.

The original CBS procedural drama Criminal Minds ended years ago with almost fifteen seasons, but Criminal Minds: Evolution ...

03.23, which amends and supplements Law No. 22.01 concerning criminal procedure. The bill, presented by Minister of Justice Abdellatif Ouahbi, incorporates feedback received during the review ...

The government announced on Wednesday that over 5.56 lakh First Information Reports (FIRs) have been registered across the ...

Chohan had also filed a separate petition under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cr. P. C.) to quash an FIR which ...