1.   While the decision stops short of making it illegal for parents to spank their children, it means that Britain will have to rewrite its corporal punishment law.

2.   Members of the Executive Council also agreed the territory should further consider changing the corporal punishment law as it develops a bill of rights.

3.   The administrative punishment law requires government agencies to give evidence and explanations before revoking business licenses and imposing major penalties.

4.   Liu was convicted under an administrative punishment law, which allows police to sentence individuals to a maximum of three years of re-education through labour without trial.

5.   The Libyan parliament approved Sunday a collective punishment law for accomplices to crimes of subversion, armed violence and religious deviance.