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Large number of court cases pending for more than 10 years
April 24, 2015 - Malta has one of the lowest number of judges per 100,000 inhabitants in the EU, and the Maltese courts are backed up to the hilt with pending cases. Hard-working judges who clear their caseloads are often 'rewarded' with the backlogged cases of their colleagues, and when judges retire, their pending cases are redistributed amongst their colleagues. According to information tabled in Parliament by Justice Minister Owen Bonnici, in reply to a question by Justice Shadow Minister Jason Azzopardi, 10 per cent of cases in the Civil Court First Hall have been pending for over 10 years, and 11 per cent for between seven and 10 years. The situation is worse in Gozo, with 24 per cent of the Civi...
Civil court can review Sarawak native court decisions, rules Court of Appeal
April 23, 2015 - A three-man bench chaired by Datuk Mohd Hishamudin Mohd Yunus, sitting with Datuk David Wong Dak Wah and Datuk Umi Kalthum Abdul Majid, unanimously...
TSA tightens rules for screening airport and airline workers
April 22, 2015 - The Transportation Security Administration is imposing more stringent regulations for screening airport and airline workers, four months after fede...
Bill would require criminal background checks for doctors who lived abroad
April 15, 2015 - Medical board opposes proposal, saying it would be costly and unfairly singles out physicians A bill that would require international criminal back...
We deny Nigerians with criminal records visas
April 14, 2015 - Lagos - Amb. Mogethi Monaisa, Consul-General, South African High Commission in Nigeria, on Monday said the commission sometimes denied issuance of...
TTC says it could take up to three years to implement random drug, alcohol testing
April 07, 2015 - More than three years after the TTC board approved random drug and alcohol testing for its employees, the program is on hold pending the outcome of...
Criminal record checks banned on foreign murderers and rapists who want to be minicab drivers
April 06, 2015 - Asylum seekers and refugees applying to be minicab drivers are exempt from criminal records checks, potentially allowing murderers and rapists to g...
FMCSA Adds data to pre-employment screening program for drivers
April 03, 2015 - The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced that its Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP) now offers additional data on co-driver s...
York Regional Police offer background check applications online
April 01, 2015 - You will soon be able to request police background checks online. York Regional Police has just announced that as of April 1, citize...
Bill requiring dentists to pass background check moves through legislature
April 01, 2015 - Bill requiring dentists to pass background check moves through legislature after ABC15 investigations. A new bill that would require...
Border warning on foreign criminals
March 27, 2015 - MPs say British police are being hampered in identifying and arresting foreign criminals because they are not being given up-to-date information....
What kind of background checks do Uber drivers have to undergo?
March 25, 2015 - Ride sharing company Uber meets with civic politicians in Burnaby today after the city asked the company to outline how it would potentially do bus...
Police service to speed up criminal records searches
March 24, 2015 - The city police force is moving ahead with trying to speed up the process to get a background check. The Thunder Bay Police Service...
ICE Arrests 40 illegal aliens with criminal records
March 19, 2015 - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfocement unit, known as ICE has announced the results of a nationwide round up of illegal aliens with criminal r...
Police say Copenhagen gunman had criminal record, gang past
March 18, 2015 - The slain gunman suspected in the deadly Copenhagen attacks was a 22-year-old with a history of violence and may have been inspired by Islamic terr...
MHA conducting background check of new owner of SpiceJet
March 12, 2015 - Security agencies are conducting a background checking of new owner of SpiceJet, Ajay Singh, after he infused a fund of Rs 500 crore in the beleagu...
Immigrants with criminal records prompts concern
March 05, 2015 - Quiet neighborhoods sit just feet from the border fence in Hidalgo. With barely 11,000 residents, the town still feels tiny. Residen...
44 of 70 Delhi MLAs crorepatis, 23 AAP MLAs have criminal records.
March 04, 2015 - Delhi saw history being created when Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal led Bharatiya Janata party won a massive mandate in the assembly polls...
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