TWO automated vending machines have been installed in the Los
Angeles area, ready to dispense OG Kush and Grandaddy Purps.
If you don’t know what that means, you’re probably not a
potential customer of the Herbal Nutrition Centre, a legal
marijuana dispensary.
It is one of two in Los Angeles to have installed the
green-painted vending machines %26#151; which offer five [...]
THE first Victorian police officer successfully sacked by Chief
Commissioner Christine Nixon has lost his Supreme Court bid to have
his dismissal overturned and was ordered to pay costs, expected to
be at least a six-figure sum.
Richard Shields, a former uniform senior sergeant and policeman
of 19 years, was dismissed by Ms Nixon in September 2006 under her
controversial no-confidence [...]
The CIA’s current techniques for interrogation of terrorism suspects are lawful and do not include the widely-condemned simulated drowning method known as waterboarding, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress.
Mukasey declined, however, in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy on the eve of testimony before the panel, to say whether he considered [...]
Victoria Police have nabbed 19 people for drink-driving during an Australia Day public holiday blitz.
Police tested more than 3,500 drivers in Melbourne on Monday night, with 19 returning blood-alcohol readings over the legal limit.
The strike rate for drink-driving was one in 185 drivers tested.
Eighteen drink drivers were men, while one drink driver was a woman, [...]
RETAIL giant Woolworths may be cashed up and hungry for
acquisitions to aid its expansion across the Tasman, but it faces
another long wait before it can bid for Kiwi retailer The
Warehouse.
New Zealand’s competition authority yesterday succeeded in
stalling Woolworths and fellow suitor Foodstuffs in the latest
instalment of a legal tussle over whether the general merchandise
chain could be [...]
Victoria Police have nabbed 19 people for drink-driving during
an Australia Day public holiday blitz.
Police tested more than 3500 drivers in Melbourne last night,
with 19 returning blood-alcohol readings over the legal limit.
The strike rate for drink-driving was one in 185 drivers
tested.
Eighteen drink-drivers were men, while one drink-driver was a
woman, police said.
The highest recorded blood-alcohol reading was [...]
SOME suffer financial hardship, others think barristers’ final
addresses are too long. Almost all agree they would like a coffee
machine nearby when they are considering their verdicts.
The comments have come from Supreme Court jurors who have spoken
to Justice Bernard Teague since 2006 after serving in criminal
trials that he had run.
In what is believed to be an [...]
POLICE union heavyweight Paul Mullett has taken successful legal
action to halt a bullying investigation against him.
Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon earlier this month advised Mr
Mullett, the Police Association secretary, that she was reopening
the bullying probe, after a scathing Ombudsman’s report found that
a WorkSafe investigation had been inadequate.
But Mr Mullett has managed to halt the police inquiry, [...]
A British farmer built an entire mock castle behind a screen of hay bales and lived there concealed for four years to evade planning regulations, officials say - but it may be torn down anyway.
Robert Fidler hopes to take advantage of a provision of planning law that allows buildings without planning permission to be declared [...]
WESTERN developed nations have been urged to do more to assist
the recovery of an estimated $25 billion to $50 billion stolen from
developing countries each year and hidden abroad.
The World Bank’s managing director overseeing anti-corruption
efforts, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday urged delegates from more
than 100 countries to remove legal obstacles to the return of
stolen funds.
Ms Okonjo-Iweala was speaking [...]
