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English Law and Self Defense

may be seen in cases where there is domestic violence and gender differences come to the fore. Fighting back immediately is likely...

Constitutional Rights and Registries for Sex Offenders

differentiations between crimes? Is it more important to register a sex offender than a convicted drug dealer or armed robber? Sho...

Arguing Against Racial Profiling

voice, it can be present in attitude, or behavior and no matter its vehicle, it is painful to those on the receiving end....

English Law and Duty of Care

a danger that the land occupier is aware of, or may have reasonable ground to believe of the existence of the danger (Lexis, 2003)...

Position Paper on Opposing Gun Control

is so irresponsible as to use firearms in violent assaults, being that there is no such connection with the average Americans abil...

Judiciary Function Theories

legislation: where the two conflict, national laws are subordinate to those of the EU. If judges are uncertain as to how a ruling ...

Augusto Pinochet III

the legislature and the judicial system as well as the government (Bindman, 1989). When general Pinochet entered England in Octob...

Overview of Family Law Issues

aimed at child protection either form physical or metal abuse or to protect their morals as well as to protect the freedom and rig...

Overview of Share Differences and the Rights of Shareholders

on the issue yielding a fixed rate of interest for the investment. If an investor is looking for an investment by way...

Case Study on Australia Employment Law

then it looks like Henry was not in a union. Therefore, he also has the right to go to the civil courts and claim wrongful dismiss...

Student Supplied Case of Offer and Acceptance of a Telephone Answering Machine

in any term constitutes a counter offer (McKendrick, 2000). This also kills the initial offer. Another case that may be sited is t...

North Carolina and Usury Laws

help at all, either. In 1978, the Supreme Court rules that a bank or other credit issuer could charge higher interest rates and fe...

Cases of Personal Injury and NC's Statute of Limitations

cause of action shall accrue more than 10 years from the last act or omission of the defendant giving rise to the cause of action ...

Student Question on a Person's Obligation to Obey Community Law

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

Interpretation of the 1967 Abortion Act and the 1981 Case of Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v. DHSS

a criminal action. The case was brought to clarify this, and the key element was the interpretation of the law by the judges....

English Contract Law and Tort Obligations

for breach of contract or its terms. Third parties were excluded due to both consideration and privity (McKendrick, 2000). It may ...

4 Types of Legal Issues

only non-identifying information about the other person, such as physical descriptions, age, basic medical data, hobbies, and such...

Lawmaking and the ECJ

House of Lords, where there is the ability for input before the law is passed. This is seen as reducing the ambiguity, and also co...

Changing the Scottish Evidence Rules

be heard. The opposite to this is an inquisition system, where there are not different sides, but the aim of finding the truth. Al...

Small Law Firm Management Improvements

become detailed descriptions of the client services each attorney in the firm provides (Sterling and Smock, nd). The firm in quest...

History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

Rethinking Construction by Sir John Egan

This report looked at the construction industry as a whole, and the ways in which it needed to improve. In making his recommendati...

New Jersey and the Administration of Stop and Frisk

up the incident. While the precedent makes for an exciting police drama, the reality is that corruption does exist and New Jersey ...

2001's USA Patriot Act

where he specializes in the relationship between information technology and national security (Carnegie Endowment for Internationa...

Force Used by Law Enforcement

definition of excessive force is, "the use of any more force than a highly skilled officer should find necessary to use in that pa...

Injury and Safety Impacts of Bicycle Helmet Laws

enter emergency departments as a result of bicycle accidents (Business Wire, 1997). Over sixty percent of those individuals who d...

Commontary on Herbert L.A. Hart's 'What's Important In Law In A Society Is Social Facts And Not Morality Or Justice'

in support of Harts assertion by way of creating law "in the image of its own beliefs and needs" (Hibbitts, no date). The Egyptia...

United Kingdom's Company Law Modernization and 2001 Change Proposals

therere are no proposed changes. In the interests of the shareholders, where thee meeting do take place that are still required t...

Care Order and English Family Law

In eleven pages English law is referred to in this case study of social services gaining a care order for the children ages two an...

1820s' Appalachia Laws

without food or rest and equipped with rudimentary fighting equipment - set the stage for the mass movement toward America. Once ...