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New Street Law is a British legal drama television series produced by Red Production Company in association with One-Eyed Dog Ltd for BBC One. The series was created by G. F. Newman and Matthew Hall, and starred an ensemble cast headed by John Hannah and Paul Freeman. Hannah and Freeman play Jack Roper and Laurence Scammel respectively, two ...
With John Hannah, Paul Freeman, John Thomson, Lisa Faulkner. New Street Law, set in Manchester's legal community, follows the exploits, competitiveness and legal cases of two rival law firms of barristers that both have very different attitudes to justice.
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- 2006-05-04
- Crime, Drama
- 60
- Texting-and-driving
- Criminal Justice System
- New Designations
- Occupational Licensure
- Printing Election Ballots
- Solemnizing Marriages
- Swatting Calls
- Water Pressure at Pools
- Minimum Wage
- Overhaul of Elections
An enhanced distracted driving provisionwithin a broader omnibus criminal justice bill, which DeWine vocally supported and signed during a ceremony Tuesday morning, now gives law enforcement the ability to pull a person over solely for being on their phone. It goes into effect in 90 days, although officers can only issue warnings for the first six ...
The same lengthy, newly-inked law adds offense charges, such as strangulation, and tweaks others, such as downgrading underage drinking to a third-degree misdemeanor. It also broadens the process for getting a criminal record sealed or expunged, and makes it easier for some incarcerated people to shave time off their sentences through changed earne...
Several days and weeks were newly designated in a bill DeWine signed into law. They include: 1. Ohio Burn Awareness Week during the first full week of February 2. Ulysses S. Grant Dayon April 27, his birthday. The 18th U.S. President, from southwestern Ohio, served directly after the Civil War 3. Pollinator Week during the last full week of June. N...
If a job applicant in Ohio holds an occupational license or certification in another state, licensing authorities will generally extend that license or certification to them when they move to Ohio — creating universal occupational license recognition. The law aims to ease worker shortages, particularly as companies such as Intel and Honda aim to bu...
Lawmakers struck down a prior requirement that all election ballot printing contracts be awarded to in-state vendors — those contracts can now go to vendors outside of Ohio, and the ballots themselves can also be printed out-of-state.
The governor’s office said another recently ratified law means that Ohio mayors can now solemnize, or perform, marriages anywhere within the state, while previously they were only permitted to do so within county limits, according to the Ohio Revised Code.
Swatting — or when a person places a false call with emergency services in an effort to prompt a heavy response from law enforcement — is now defined as a fourth-degree felony in Ohio, and could be a second-degree felony if the swatting call results in physical harm. If a person was accused of placing a swatting call prior to this law, they might h...
Under the newly signed Makenna’s Law, the state government will limit the water pressure features at swimming pools — such as splash pads — can use. It is named after a child from Cincinnati who was severely injured at a birthday party hosted at an indoor waterpark.
The legal hourly minimum wage increasedSunday from $9.30 to $10.10 for nontipped workers and from $4.65 to $5.05 for tipped workers. Rather than outlined in a bill DeWine signed, Ohio’s minimum wage has been tied to inflation since November 2006, when voters ratified a constitutional amendment mandating that it rise annually with inflation. The leg...
DeWine had yet to take action on House Bill 458as of Tuesday afternoon. H.B. 458, which cleared both chambers along party lines, would alter Ohio elections in a number of ways. It would mandate photo ID at the polls, limit ballot drop boxes to one per county, and shorten request and return times for absentee ballots. “We have about five bills that ...
6 days ago · Public health officials say Mexican cartels and drug gangs inside the U.S. are mixing a dangerous chemical sedative called medetomidine into fentanyl and other drugs sold on the street. The ...
4 days ago · Donald Trump became the first former president ever convicted of a crime, with a Manhattan jury finding him guilty Thursday of 34 felonies for falsifying records to cover up hush money paid to a ...
4 days ago · Republican mega donors are energized. “This verdict will have less than zero impact on my support,” Omeed Malik, the president of 1789 Capital and a co-host of a Trump fund-raiser last night ...
1 day ago · Brickbat: Getting Criminals Off the Street. Former Columbus, Ohio police vice detective Andrew Mitchell has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of depriving ...
