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SC reserves judgement on plea seeking law against torture in accordance with international convention

By ANI

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved the judgement on the petition seeking a direction with regard to delay in defining and enacting a law in connection with torture in accordance with international convention.

The petition filed by advocate and former law minister, Ashwini Kumar, sought the court to take up the onus of enactment of law as governments have failed to come up with one such enactment.

A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, reserved the judgement.

The court was hearing the contention by Kumar, who had asked the court to enact a law for witness protection in accordance with international conventions.

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Liew: Decision to drop charge against Siti Kasim in accordance with law

ISKANDAR PUTERI: Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Liew Vui Keong has defended the Attorney General's Chamber's (AGC) decision to drop charges against activist lawyer Siti Kasim (pic) for allegedly showing her middle finger at a forum in 2016.

He stressed that the decision was made in accordance with the law, saying it was an independent decision by the prosecutor made under existing laws.

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Final effort statistics December 2018

Statistics on effort use in western waters are submitted to the European Commission on the 15 day of every month.

Data provided to the European Commission in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 2103/2004 (a,b)

Crabs Trip type BSA(c) ICES V-VI ICES VII ICES VIII Effort deployed (kWdays) - 481,022 491,767 - Maximum allowable effort (d) (kWdays) 393 702,292 543,366 - Uptake (%) 0% 68% 91% n/a Demersal Trip type BSA(c) ICES V-VI ICES VII ICES VIII Effort deployed (kWdays) 789,733 5,364,832 25,786,266 131,949 Maximum allowable effort (d) (kWdays) 3,061,485 24,017,229 25,786,266 218,406 Uptake (%) 26% 22% 28% 60% Scallops Trip type BSA(c) ICES V-VI ICES VII ICES VIII Effort deployed (kWdays) - 796,494 3,801,964 - Maximum allowable effort (d) (f) (kWdays) 1,223 1,974,425 4,160,619 - Uptake (%) 0% 40% 91% n/a

Source: UK Fisheries Administrations

(a) The Western Waters comprise the nine sea areas described in Council Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003: ICES V-VI, ICES VII, ICES VIII, ICES IX, ICES X, CECAF 34.1.1, CECAF 34.1.2, CECAF 34.2.0, and the Biologically Sensitive Area (BSA), defined in Article 6.

(b) Regulated trips are those with target species listed by Council Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003, namely:

Demersal species excluding those covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2347/2002

Scallops

Edible crab and spider crab

(c) Includes effort deployed on regulated trips in the Biologically Sensitive Area (BSA) by vessels over 10m in length, in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003.

(d) The maximum allowable effort permitted in each sea area is set in Council Regulation (EC) No 1415/2004. The UK does not hold allocations of effort for areas ICES IX, ICES X, CECAF 34.1.1, CECAF 34.1.2, CECAF 34.2.0.”

e) Data provided to the European Commission in accordance with Commission Regulation EC No 2103/2004 only contains validated data on the MMO systems

f) baseline includes any transfers from other member states

Published 20 February 2019