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From Britian:
A farmer named Tony Martin made headlines when he shot a burglar who had broken into his remote farmhouse. He received
a five-year sentence for manslaughter, and was recently denied parole. The reasons?
- He was deemed “a danger to burglars.”
- He refused to express remorse for defending himself.
- The board felt that he was not “up to speed with the 21st century and of thinking things were better 40 years ago”.
From Norway:
In 2002, the Norwegian government approved measures to increase the number of women on the executive boards of both state-owned and private companies. Within one year, the government will ensure that at least 40% of the members of
the boards of state-owned enterprises are women. Private companies have until 2005 to increase their share of women on their
boards to an acceptable level - ie at least 40%. If this goal is not achieved, regulations setting quotas will come into force
in the private sector. If, however, satisfactorily levels of women's participation are reached, the regulations will not take
effect.
From Italy:
April 8 2002
Now the country's
highest court has confirmed the importance of family bonds by ordering a father to continue maintaining his adult son until
he is able to find a job that satisfies his aspirations.
The loser in the maintenance battle is Giuseppe Andreoli, an anatomy professor at
Naples University and a former MP.
The Court of Cassation has ruled that he must continue to pay his 29-year-old son
775 euros ($1,285) a month until he can find himself satisfactory employment. The victor is Marco, a law graduate who lives
with his mother and appears to be in no rush to flit the nest.
Mr Andreoli told the court that his son had a law degree, a house on one of Naples's
most elegant streets, and was joint owner of an investment fund worth more than $A800,000. "How can you justify a decision
like that?"he asked.
From Germany:
In January of 2005 a German court decided that a man could not use a DNA test from a child to prove that he was not the father of the child. In cases
where fathers had obtained such prove without the consent of the mother, their evidence would be inadmissable in a court of
law. So a man who could prove that he was not the father of a child would still be required to support that child.
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