Law Essays

First, Ellis describes the type of trenches built along the front such as the purpose of the first trench line. He then describes the activities that often took place in the dugouts where it is conducted in deep mud, standing water, and piles of poorly buried corpses. Ellis's second section deals with combat conditions. Soldiers described the shelling in numerous ways, all of them unpleasant.

The author states that in general, anyone who knowingly encourages or facilitates the commission of an offense or impedes its prevention is a party to the offense. While one commonly uses the expression "aiding and abetting", the two are different concepts and either of them is ample to engage criminal liability.

Tax year means that only those incomes obtained from employment from 6 April in one year to 3 April the next year shall be the basis in computing your income tax thereafter. For example, in computing your income tax liability from employment for 2008/2009, we shall consider your income received from 6 April 2008 to 3 April 2009. 

USA Sports Law As a legal counsel, I am more interested on the legal issues that surround this incident, more than the economical or social implications of the same. The following are the issues that are at play here: If Sharman's father sues the club, he will be doing so under the "Professional Sports Torts Act" (Epstein, 2008).

The Founding Fathers would not have been in favor of such an act because it would have seemed unconstitutional to them. The Forefathers would have argued that the Act would become dangerous to the well-being of U.S. citizens as it would apply to them as well. Any U.S. citizen can be captured and tortured based on the decision of the President. 

According to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees adopted during 1951, the Article 1 (A) (1) and (2) states that “any person ….as a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951 and owing to well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of the country ….” (UNHCR Convention, 1951) Helena is a Titanian from Xanadu and was studying in Kensington when the war broke out between Titanian and Oberons.

In this contract, there was an intention to create legal relations. A contract is a result of an agreement between the parties, but in order that a contract should be enforceable, there must have been an intention to create legal relations. Graham wanted to be supplied with Yorkshire stone by Steve.

The role that morals play, or should play, in the development of laws has been a long-debated subject. In this respect, both morals and the law are integral to the development of society, such that the extent that which moral views interact and are given consideration in the development of laws is of crucial importance.

Last summer, Vito's daughter, Connie, turned 18. Vito gave her a card, inside of which he had written, 'To my darling daughter Connie, "Happy Eighteenth Birthday! On this special day, I give to you 5,000 shares in my oldest company, Lucrative plc."Vito never actually got round to executing a share transfer in favour of Connie, however, until his death, he occasionally emailed statistics to her in order to keep her informed as to the performance of the shares on the stock market.

In credits from banks, bank will pay the sum to merchant, which the purchaser need to ay in installments to the bank and in the case of a credit agreement with the merchant, the shop lets a person take home goods after paying a small amount of money which is often called a security deposit or down payment.

In advising the Construction Building Surveyor to agree with the mediation proceedings, the essay will point out the relevant circumstances which lead to the aforementioned advice. In every cultured and enlightened society, there are set of laws, rules, and regulations which govern every aspect of a human and juridical relationship with one another.

The United States has expressed deep concerns that terrorism has begun infiltrating the Philippines. It has gone so far as to describe Mindañao as having the potential to become another Afghanistan, especially since reports suggest that those behind the recent Bali bombing underwent their training in Mindañao. 

It is beyond doubt that the public sector will have to evolve and change to meet the needs of modern society. However, reform can happen only when there is management will and capacity to implement them. In order to ensure the success of the modernization of the public sector reform process, involving the employees is very important. 

The division between prison and probation services and the lack of effective and efficient communication and cooperation between them, culminated in offender mismanagement, as opposed to effective management, whereby, upon their re-entry into society, a significant percentage of offender reverted to crime.

The Taxation office in every country has varied rights and powers to access and gather information relating to taxation matters. Australian Taxation Office also has a predefined set of rules for accessing and gathering information that sometimes becomes an essential factor in detecting fraud and eradicating tax evasions.

Doyle advised, “Linda Doyle was quoted in the November issue of CFO magazine advising CFOs not to treat noncompete agreements lightly because all too often they are not appreciated in terms of enforceability.” This brings us to your matter and the question of the enforceability of the verbal agreement.

Phrases such as "the police family", "the police brotherhood", and "the blue code of silence" reflect the tribal system. Briefly, there are three universal characteristics of tribal values. First, tribal values focus on an identifiable group. Membership in the group provides emotional support and security.

The author states that while Darby has already admitted to the breach, his claim that damages are adequate is anything but adequate. Specific performance is absolutely necessary. It is crucial to understand that in cases involving unique or special property, no monetary value can be accurately assigned.

Segregation was thought to be wrong because it subjugated individuals and groups to secondary citizenship status because of unfair judgments made about persons based upon their race, color, religion, sex or national origin.  Segregation was also considered wrong because it was contrary to the basic philosophical precepts for which the United States as a society was supposed to stand for such as justice, liberty and equal opportunity.

Professor Williams Glanville Williams has influenced the House of Lords with his works. He argued that those who lack the requisite men's rea but cause actual 'social damage' should not be punished. 1) The fact of R. v Shivpuri 1 was that customs officials arrested the appellant in possession of a suitcase.

The prime intention of this paper is to investigate how a crime scene investigation (CSI) can elicit reliable and integral data from the crime environment so that an irrefutable warrant can be derived from it. This is on the assumption that there is, in the first place, such reliable and integral association inherent between the data and criminal acts.

McCloskeys’ thesis is that the decisions of the United States Supreme Court lean congruently with popular American opinion. Some historians have put forth the administrative argument that Chief Justice John Marshall was the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, albeit belies the historical facts.

Any fully self governing- nation can be admitted as a new member when their application is approved by two-thirds or more of the present assembly members. Members should give assurance that it will observe it international obligations and rules prescribed by the League in regards to its military, naval and air force armaments.

The author claims that the principle of ‘enlightened shareholder value’ exemplifies the focus for intensified corporate social responsibility, and empowers shareholders to pursue directors for negligence, defaults, and breaches of duty or trust. Generally, the responsibilities and liabilities of directors derive from various sources.

The scope of this paper is to define the concept, contrast it with a standard self-defense claim, cite arguments both pro and con, offer my personal opinion on the matter, and consider alternatives to the defense that could be utilized by the criminal justice system. Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) is a variation of the self-defense claim.

Bowden's statement in the book 'Killing Pablo' that "Its government is weak, by design and tradition. In vast regions to the south and west, and even in the mountain villages outside the major cities, live communities only lightly touched by nation, government, or law" lays open the structural deficiencies of Colombian criminal justice system.

Introduction The case concerned the theoretical question of whether evidence obtained under torture could ever be admissible in a court of law. The Home Secretary had powers under Part 4 of the Anti – Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (ATCSA) to indefinitely detain without trial foreign individuals suspected of international terrorism.

The study of how we perceive behavioral confirmation reveals clues about cognitive function. The findings suggested if one acts oblivious or capitulates to the beliefs of others, those beliefs are reinforced; however if one acts in complete congruence with the beliefs of others, those beliefs are mitigated.

The author of the paper states that monetary policy is the actions taken by the central bank to influence the availability and cost of money and credit to assist in promoting national economic goals. The Fed's monetary policy decisions affect the flow of money and credit in the economy.

At the beginning of the XXI century, the policy of affirmative action is still of vital importance. Politics and human rights policy have changed significantly throughout the twentieth century, notably in relation to attitudes about race, gender, and sexuality.

Duty οf care means a duty to take reasonable care or exercise reasonable skill. Basically, the court observes recognized duties οf care between professionals and clients, manufacture to the consumer, schools to students, employers to employees. Duty οf care is the legal requirement that the defendant must stick to a standard οf conduct.

Of course, America probably has to break a few more social barriers before a black president could be elected. To be frank, a lot of people are not ready to have a black man or woman as President. On the other hand, there are a lot of progressive people, black and white, concerned that democratic principles should be implemented in the real life indeed.

Victoria was sent by her parents from Africa to live with her aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao. She died in London from physical and sexual abuse inflicted by Carl Manning and the girl's aunt which had occurred from 1998 till her death in 2000. The two were ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment, but the repercussions extended to both social and police agencies which had not always responded adequately, for instance not responding to one particular complaint because the child had scabies.

According to customer and conventions but it won rather designed to give free rein to the law-making activity of the court and the court had to content itself with applying principles of law which could be established as common to the municipal law of all civilized nations and were, therefore, positive law, though not positive international law.

Regardless of his interests and preferences, the trustee has a fiduciary duty to act always in the best interest of the trust. A trustee is normally expected to hold and administer the trust property for the benefit of the trust beneficiaries by the purposes set down in the trust deed and according to general trust law.

The author states that to further add to this controversy the federal court for the state of Florida has determined that the Health Care Reform Act is unconstitutional. Lawyers from the White House have filed responses in regards to separate lawsuits attempting to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

In this increasing age of fraud and deception, stringent laws are necessary to curb such fraudulent actions. While no Act can be formed that can guarantee the complete removal of criminal activities, the most pressing problem is that fraudsters go to any length to find loopholes in the Acts to ensure escape from the eyes of the law.

The UK has attempted to reverse the legal ban on the admissibility in judicial proceedings of evidence obtained through torture and other ill-treatment. The UK is seeking diplomatic assurances that foreign nationals suspected of terrorist activities will not be subject to serious human rights violations, upon deportation from the UK.

The author states that the overall look of the building is very dingy and it needs to be spruced up in all areas. The second property is a supermarket, which he visits for my day-to-day needs. It is a very well maintained property. It’s not very old and has all the amenities of a modern supermarket.

The third count on which the contract got delayed was that when concreting the foundations in January the contractor complains that the weather is too cold for the concrete to “go off” and that they are being Delayed. The present condition makes the performance of the contract physically impossible in the given conditions. 

I feel that this is an urgent academic matter because law suffers in these fields for lack of Acts and legislation and what exists today is in form of precedents is too weak and unspecific to meet the demands of modern times1. There is a wide gap in this area and research here is timely.

As the paper declares while old, the International Court of Justice was not the first world court.  The first World Court, also called the Permanent Court of International Justice, was created by the League of Nations back in 1922.  This court was in existence from 1922 until 1940, although it did not hear many cases.  

Mersey NHS has not maintained an updated grievance process. This analysis looks at the grievance process documents provided by the Mersey NHS Board of Trustees. The qualitative analysis is based on current strategic management theories. The qualitative analysis examines Process Management as it pertains to the grievance document and procedure: Commitment and reliability; Communication; Goals; Language and Diversity.

A considerable number of social changes are more likely to happen through lower courts of a particular country, through politics, or through processes that call for a great deal of patience, persistence, and time. These among others might be the shortcomings that a person might face in the legal profession. 

Jim was told that Martin’s guitar he had been playing had been stolen from Stan. He was even shown a photo of Stan playing Martin’s guitar.  This issue concerns the law of property.  Property means anything, which is capable of being owned, either it exists in tangible or intangible form.  There is a difference between ownership and possession.

Now the prosecution will claim that Gharmi’s act resulted in the death of Peter. It will be further alleged that she had both the intention and the knowledge required to commit the act. It is a fact that Gharmi’s act of putting rat poison in the rice-biryani and teapot resulted in the death of Peter. 

Joshua as a citizen of a commonwealth country must meet with the guidelines that govern those nationals outside of the EEA, but it is easier for a commonwealth citizen to claim entry over those that are not. The first avenue for Joshua to take is to apply for a work visa, which can be afforded anywhere from 1 to 5 years.

In considering the fact that Primetrade initially bought goods from the Orinoco and sold to Orient Prosperity with the final stop of Jingtang China and that two sets of bills were issued, the shipowner's bills had to be considered according to the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992 and Arbitration Act of 1996.  

The golden rule was used in the case of Adler v George (1964) to avoid an absurd result. Under section 3 of the Official Secrets Act 1920, it was an offense to obstruct HM Forces in the vicinity of a prohibited place. Mr. Frank Adler had in fact been arrested whilst obstructing such forces within such a prohibited place.

This was attainable by casual dealings, with broadminded practical regulations. The Lex Mercatoria gave balanced judgement on the arguments in between the merchants, due to various reasons like for instance reasonable prices, good quality trade, and even-handedness.