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The Bill reverses the presumption in favour of granting bail to people charged with serious offences if they have convictions for failing to appear on bail in the past five years.

It's just another tool in the toolbox," says Gene Newman, a bail bondsman who claims credit for writing Mississippi's post-conviction bond bill, which passed the legislature in 2007.

These included 4,844 burglaries committed by offenders on bail in 2013, 16 per cent of all burglary offences committed.

There is also a provision that bail can be refused if the offence is murder.

Reports say there are more than 5,000 people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who have been on bail for more six months.

The court granted bail to Jayalalithaa's close aide Sasikala, the ex- CM's disowned foster- son V.

Scotland Yard has come under criticism in recent months after Operation Yewtree - the investigation set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal - saw Paul Gambaccini, Jim Davidson and Freddie Starr left on bail for months only to be told they would face no charges.

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Mr Dunham said: "Freddie Starr was due to answer police bail on April 1 2014.

150,000 is less than a third of the bail amount set for Justin Carter, (http://www.

Historically, financially secured bail has been an important tool in our justice system, a way to give genuine heft to the notion that persons accused of crimes enjoy a presumption of innocence.

Khaleej Times reported on July 11 that 52-year-old Shahin, an American businessman of Lebanese origin, was granted bail by Dubai Criminal Court Chief Justice Ahmed Abdulla on July 5 and would be released by this weekend when his team would deposit the Dh5-million bond, which was one of the bail conditions.

The court, in its 14-page bail order, also said that Raja would not try to influence any witnesses while on bail.

The pair, who were guards on the Italian ship Enrica Lexie, from which the shots were fired at the Kerala fishermen, can enjoy the bail with the additional condition that they cannot leave the territory coming under control of the Kochi police commissioner.

WHEN MOST people think of bail bonds, they immediately imagine dark alley thugs and large, rough men wearing fedoras and smoking cigars.