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Criminals Were Able To Wipe Record With Gender Change, Scotland MSPs told
July 27, 2025 - Criminals will not and should not have been able not able to wipe clean their conviction record by changing gender, Justice Secretary Angela Constance has told MSPs. It follows reports that a murderer's criminal past was not initially disclosed in court files after they altered their gender identity while in prison. Constance said the "isolated" incident was "not reflective of broader issues" in the justice system. She told parliament Police Scotland had been asked to review its procedures following the error. Constance was quizzed about the case of Alex Stewart, formerly called Alan Baker, who was jailed for murdering father-of-two John Weir in 2013....
Mauritania Launches Online Criminal Record Service
July 26, 2025 - Mauritania launches online criminal record service to simplify administration Citizens can access the service via Houwiyeti app and Khidmati po...
Fake India Police Clearance Certificates Still A Problem In India
July 08, 2025 - Two persons from a private company have been arrested for allegedly forging ‘police clearance certificates' for contractual employ...
South Africa Justice For Sale: Criminals Pay To Avoid Trial, Records
July 06, 2025 - Hundreds of thousands of people charged with crimes are paying their way out of criminal records in deals brokered by prosecutors in court hallways...
New Product. Is There A Global Criminal Record Database Search
June 27, 2025 - New Product. A Global Criminal Record Database Search Who hasn't been pitched to use (for a fee) a Global Database Search for International...
What You Need To Know Before Scraping EU Websites
June 14, 2025 - Web scraping in the EU offers scale and speed but comes with legal complexity, especially around GDPR, database rights, and terms of service. Risk...
Processors and Controllers Beware - GDPR fines the Controller
June 09, 2025 - GDPR ALERT >This article seems to answer a lot of Processors and Controllers concerns and questions. The Spanish Data Protection Authority (...
European Criminal Court Hierarchies
June 05, 2025 - Here's a list with criminal court hierarchies, generally from lowest to highest instance This list focuses on ordinary criminal courts and...
This NZL Law Aims To Give People With Criminal Convictions a ‘Clean Slate’. It’s Not Working
May 29, 2025 - If you own a business, would you be willing to hire a person who has been convicted for a crime? Give them a chance when a background check shows t...
New Visa Rules In UK May Mean Trouble For Many Musicians
May 28, 2025 - The rollout of the UK’s Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) scheme for non-visa nationals means that more creative artists seeking entry to...
Hundreds of Netherlands Criminal Convictions Undermined by Admin Errors
May 25, 2025 - Serious administrative failings in the justice system have allowed hundreds of criminal convictions to be registered under the wrong name, r...
How To Find Mexico Courts and Their Contact Information
May 20, 2025 - How To Find Mexico Courts and Their contact information: Search Online: Use a search engine (like Google) and search for the full na...
Things your criminal record provider would never provide to you- Jamaica
May 17, 2025 - This free booklet on cross references of Jamaica's towns, cities, villages and communities...
Things your criminal record provider would never provide to you - Puerto Rico
May 16, 2025 - "Things your criminal record provider would never provide to you." This free book...
Links to Free Searches of EU National Business Registries
May 09, 2025 - As of June 2017 the business registers of all EU countries have been interconnected and become searchable. You can get information about compan...
About Germany Criminal Courts - Good Read...
May 06, 2025 - About Germany Criminal Courts - Good Read... The hierarchy of German criminal courts within the ordinary jurisdiction progresses from the Local...
All About Japan Civil Court Record Seaches for Background Checks
April 12, 2025 - First - Japan’s District Courts handle the first instance of most types of civil and criminal cases. They are situated in 50 locations...
The Hierarchy of the Thailand Criminal Court
April 10, 2025 - The hierarchy of the Thailand Criminal Court, as part of the broader "Courts of Justice" system, follows a three-tiered structure:...
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