7,000 DRIVERS' NAMES SOLD TO CRIMINALS: HOW DVLA MADE £21m SELLING DETAILS OF 4.85m MOTORISTS

The number of personal records sold has tripled since 2006Sensitive data on 85,0000 drivers went missing after parking firm went bustAnother company sold on details for profit By GEORGE ARBUTHNOTT, ANDY WHELAN, ABUL TAHER and MARTIN DELGADO PUBLISHED: 31 March 2012 The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has sold sensitive personal details of more than 7,000 drivers to a convicted criminal and his company.Today’s revelation comes despite...

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NEW YORK BIKE LAW COULD MEAN MANDATORY LICENSES AND INSURANCE FOR THE WHOLE STATE

By Joe Coscarelli Mon., Feb. 28 2011This afternoon, Gothamist points us to a proposal by assemblyman Michael DenDekker, a Democrat from Queens, which would require by law that every bicycle -- not just in New York City, but in New York state -- have a license plate, to be re-registered every year only after an inspection of the bike. A second bill, also in the works, would make it so every rider must be insured and carry identification....

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STARE DECISIS

http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/s065.htm Lat. "to stand by that which is decided." The principal that the precedent decisions are to be followed by the courts. To abide or adhere to decided cases. It is a general maxim that when a point has been settled by decision, it forms a precedent which is not afterwards to be departed from. The doctrine of stare decisis is not always to be relied upon, for the courts find it necessary to overrule cases which have been hastily decided, or contrary to principle. Many hundreds of such overruled cases may...

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COMPONENTS OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES: MENS REA

http://law.anu.edu.au/criminet/tmensrea.htmlOverviewThis section will examine the basic elements of mens rea, that is the mental ingredient of criminal offences. It examines the law's preference for subjective rather than objective standards, and the effect of mistake and intoxication on mens rea. Mens reaMens rea in Latin means guilty mind. It is used in the criminal law as a shorthand term to describe the various subjective mental states which accompany the actus reus. There is a clear preference in the criminal law for subjective...

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U.S. COURT DECISIONS CONFIRM "DRIVING A MOTOR VEHICLE" IS A CITIZENS RIGHT AND NOT A GOVERNMENT GRANTED PRIVILEGE.

http://www.soveriegn.freeservers.com/bulletin.htmFor many years Professionals within the criminal justice System have acted upon the belief that traveling by motor vehicle upon the roadway was a privilege that was gained by a citizen only after approval by their respective state government in the form of the issuance of a permit or license to that Particular individual.Legislators, police officers and court officials are becoming aware that there are now court decisions that prove the fallacy of the legal opinion that" driving is a privilege and...

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THE NATIONAL RESPONSE

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