A group of leading international legal scholars and jurists, convinced that more public figures are likely in coming years to face trial for abuses like genocide and crimes against humanity, is proposing the first set of guidelines for such cases.
As a result, many victims of foreclosure abuses like bungled loan modifications, deficient paperwork, excessive fees and wrongful evictions will most likely get less money.
Abuses like these weren't supposed to be happening.
Human rights organizations rightly monitor and condemn abuses like censorship and persecution of political opponents.
It was abuses like these, several men said, that turned them from fishermen into pirates.
The scandal has little to do with highly publicized abuses like market timing or insider trading.
But opponents argue that the change would lead to abuses like those now seen with telemarketers.
It would also prevent states from pursuing claims for foreclosure abuses, like improper denial of loan modifications.
Judicial abuses — like the illegal 31-month detention without trial of the anarchist Kostas Sakkas — make little impression.
The agreement came during a national outcry over potentially widespread foreclosure abuses like shoddy paperwork, erroneous fees and wrongful evictions.
Foreclosure abuses, like the routine filing of apparent forgeries with the nation's courts, gained widespread notoriety in 2010.
