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or example, if a person commits murder and the judge keeps in mind the circumstances do not find the accused guilty and orders to release the innocent person, therefore a case of equal standing can have the same ruling.... The paper "How Lawyers Reason within Field of Litigation" tells that lawyers while pleading the cases of their clients in a competent court of law use certain legal and logical tools and reiterate it in line with the provisions of law, statement of witnesses, documentary evidence....
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This case study "offences against the person act" presents criminally liable for homicide for Danni's death.... Finally, Danni could be liable for murder or manslaughter because her act of sending a mail bomb (though merely intended to frighten Gordon) actually caused or brought about the instant death of the victim Sharon.... Homicide is the general term given to the unlawful killing of a person which usually takes the form of either murder or manslaughter....
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In order to prove that the defendant acted maliciously, it is sufficient to prove that he intended his act to result in some unlawful bodily harm to some other person, albeit of a minor nature, or was subjectively reckless as to the risk that his act might result in such harm (See: R v Mowatt [1968] 1 QB 421).... Section 1(1) of the Theft act 1968 (TA 1968) creates the offence of theft.... Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously wound or inflict any grievous bodily harm upon any person, either with or without any weapon or instrument, shall be guilty of an offence, and being convicted thereof shall be liable to imprisonment for five years....
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t present, within the UK those deliberately or recklessly infecting others in the manner described above are likely to find themselves charged with offenses covered by The Offences against the Person Act 1861.... This coursework "the offences against the person act" critically discusses sections 18, 20 and 47 from Offences Against the Person Act.... hen deliberating on what charges can be brought against those who infect others with HIV the courts will look for proof that the person is aware of their condition that they know the risk of transmission, and they are aware that it passes through sex....
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That was dissimilar to section 20 of The Offences against the Person Act 1861.... That was dissimilar to section 20 of The Offences against the Person Act 1861.... By concealing any information about one's HIV status, the subject denies the other person the freedom to make a choice.... The nature of the case engrosses an appeal by Feston Konzani against a conviction passed by the Crown Court at Teesside on 14th May 2004, before the Honour Judge Fox and a jury....
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he Bail act 1976 provides that the court should presume that the defendant should be granted bail unless there are circumstances to justify refusal of bail.... Part II of the act provides circumstances when the defendant need not be granted bail.... The alleged crime was committed on April 2 where it is alleged that the defendant unlawfully and maliciously wounded Oliver Davies with intent to cause him....
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'In LC218 the Law Commission was unequivocal that The Offences against the Person Act 1861 could be used to prosecute the transmission of disease, and recommended that the proposed new offences should enable the intentional or reckless transmission of disease to be prosecuted in appropriate cases'.... The paper "offences against the person act 1861" discusses that the inherent issues with OAGA 1861 would not so much in the wordings that construed and constructs the rudiments for legal interpretation, but also in terms of how its surviving provisions are interpreted in the current context....
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