Author: James NashSo you want to check people’s criminal past? Not a problem, especially today. If you wanted to do this few years back you had to go through a lot of trouble. Luckily today things are different when you want to find arrest records. Finding arrest record doesn’t have to come with expensive fees and such because you can easily retrieve arrest records at no cost. Today there is a huge difference just because of the internet...more
The criminal law process is a very highly specialised field of law and is one that has the most intricacies involved in it. This field also has the highest possible stakes for the clients as the outcome of the trial directly affects their freedom to live in society, and also the family is irrevocably affected by the indictment. And if the client is an innocent charged wrongly, the stakes become even higher. The lawyers who work in this field on...more
A common person's knowledge of the law and criminal procedure is restricted to that which has been gleaned from reading newspaper reports of highly publicised trials or from movies of courtroom drama or from reading the novels of John Grisham. But whatever the level of one's knowledge, it is superficial in nature. When faced with a situation when one requires it for oneself, this knowledge proves to be grossly inadequate. Irrespective of the severity of the charge, having to stand before the booking desk in a police station is a traumatic experience. The complete procedure of criminal law is very vast, complicated, complex and confusing for those who are uninitiated into the criminal law process and its intricacies. It is one of those few regions of law that transcends all religious, cultural, racial and class boundaries in every modern society. It is one subject which is best left to the experts to handle. When one finds himself on the other side of society's criminal law, a person wants to take the assistance of somebody who is most conversant with the criminal law to bail them out. This is where the criminal defence solicitors come into play. They lend reassurance in a situation...more
Author: Syl Juxon Smith 419 Scams originated in the early 1980s from Nigeria as their oil-based economy declined. Several unemployed university students first used this scam as a means of manipulating business visitors interested in shady deals in the Nigerian oil and payment sector within its procurement before targeting businessmen in the west,...more