Law Essays

It findings provides vital information to one family facing the prospects of seeking justice through restorative process. This family had one of its members killed by an inmate who wishes to seek for forgiveness before execution. However, most of the family members are not willing to meet the family of the offender because they feel that it is an attempt cover the crimes committed.

I gained specific disciplinary knowledge in criminal justice, which helped me perform my roles as a polygraph examination professional at the Los Angeles Police Department. The education at the University helped me develop ethics and work values, which were highly applicable to criminal justice. I got exposure to relevant criminal justice literature.

Going over the different laws relating to labor, it is quite apparent that British Labour Law had gone way ahead to answer the challenges of the 21st-century workplace.  For one, the National Minimum Wage Act of 1998 had already set the minimum wage for workers so as to avoid taking advantage of the employers of the workers’ need for work. 

The preliminary investigation should be intended towards identifying if Armstrong has been actually treated unfairly by the agency and if there are any issues related to abuse of employee rights or any related misconduct towards him. The investigation should also focus on identifying the factors on which Armstrong has been removed from his job.

Toxicology is a term used to refer to the examination of the human body for toxins (poison) and to evaluate the quantity and extent of harm caused. Toxicology is applied in the clinical, medical, environmental as well as the forensic field. In the field of forensics, the study of toxicology is used to figure out the level of chemical contact and the level of injury caused by toxic substances.

As the code states, a warranty is not mandatory for the government, but certain defects and gross mistakes that occur in the provision of the products or services need a warranty for their acquisition. To determine whether the warranty is appropriate for a certain acquisition, contracting officers have to assess the arising costs, reduced requirements, trade practices, administration and enforcement of the contract, and the nature and use of the product or service.

In order to cope with the requirements the US Correctional facilities have invested in technology to ensure that routine supervision and monitoring of the prisoners is as automated as possible and that it uses as little of the overstretched stretched manual labor that run the prisons.

Article 12 of the Pact provides that the Pact will only come into effect once it has been endorsed by ten states. State K is the tenth state to ratify the pact. The ratification of the pact by state K, therefore, makes the pact enforceable. Notwithstanding the reservations of State L on the ratification of the pact by State K the Pact is deemed enforced unless State L pulls out of the Pact. 

The Public Employees’ Fair Employment Act, stated under the Civil Service Law 200-214, commonly referred to as the Taylor Law is a statute governing the labor relationships that cover public employees in the state of New York.

A former police officer, Mr. Abramski bought and legally transferred a firearm to his elderly uncle for self defense. Abramski purchased the gun at a local gun dealer at a discount since was a former police officer. During the purchase process, Mr. Abramski passed all the federal requirements laid down at the store; therefore, he bought the gun successfully from another store in Pennsylvania.

Implementation of various accessibility patterns to the web has also led to unauthorized access to consumers' information like purchasing behaviors, among others. To protect unauthorized access, nations have set laws governing protecting consumer information privacy, laws that differ from each other.

The hierarchical court system of England and Wales is comprised of the Magistrates’ Court, the County Court, the Crown Court, the High Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal, and finally, the Supreme Court. it is evident that the hierarchical structure of the court system in England and Wales engages the common law doctrine.

The types of cases that would be heard in the various courtrooms, as well as the appeals processes available per type of court are also discussed. County-Level Courts: A county-level court is simply a court that is based within a jurisdiction that covers one or more counties, which are administrative divisions in a nation.

The author explains that such an issue would not have occurred if stakeholders had taken prior responsibility for the work they do. This law has got very many good things and works to protect all the stakeholders from different business perspectives. It has held every individual accountable for the actions that they do.

Since the introduction of police as guardians and protectors of public order, public confidence in the exercise of police powers has been eroded over publicized abuse of police powers. The regulation of police powers to stop and search is regulated by a number of legislative provisions, especially, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. 

Any agreement for the provision of a service that is enforceable by a court of law is a contract. In the case of contracts involving higher transactions for the provision of certain services like in the case of soliciting the services of a Real Estate dealer, the English law resorts to certain formalities like fixing signatures on the agreements. 

Contracts form the bulwark of communication, understanding and conducting business between two entities: individuals, or Business Corporations. Parties to a contract need to be very sure of the requirements of the contract and their stake in the endeavour, otherwise, they stand to lose financially extensively.

On the 8th of January, 2011, people had gathered at a supermarket in Casas Adobes, Ariona. Everyone was looking forward to seeing U.S. representative Gabrielle Giffords at a public meeting event being held there. The crowd included young children, teenagers and even a judge. Most just wanted to meet her and wish her well whereas others wanted to ask her questions.

The practice of racial profiling has raised so many controversies and has been the subject of many heated debates in the recent past. Many countries do not support the idea saying it is a bad practice. In my view, the practice is bad and should not be tolerated. It only amounts to discrimination which is a bad thing in society.

There have been a number of formal complaints in national courts claiming that the UN Security Council resolutions or domestic laws implementing these counterterrorism resolutions encroach upon inalienable human rights protections under EU and/or national laws. ECtHR takes the position that conflicts between EU laws and international laws are under the domain of the ECtHR and not a matter for national courts.

The law relating to voluntary manslaughter has been modified to some extent by the enactment of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. Section 56 of this Act abolished the common law provocation defense and annulled section 3 of the Homicide Act 1957. The defense of loss of control is restricted to murder and is unavailable for other offenses.

The case of Wilsons & Clyde Coal Company v English  established the implied basic duties that employers owe their employees, the breach of which entitles the latter to award of damages in an action for tort on the broad ground of negligence. These duties are: selection of competent staff that had the benefit of proper training.

The lesson that the American law enforcement and criminal suspects leaned is that the suspect must know all their individual rights before signing any confessions while arrested. On the other hand, legal officers must, therefore, inform criminal suspects about all their individual rights before such signing. 

This memo intends to clarify the issues related to tax levied on income of Mr. US under Internal Revenue Service, Department of Treasury United States. According to Sec. 1(a) –(c), (f) of US Internal Revenue System, the individuals are subject to marginal tax rates ranging from 10% to 35% wherein the rate brackets being adjusted to control inflation.

International finance transactions involve legal matters in various ways. This is because many of the international projects requiring funding often have various participants and disputes might arise. Most of these deputies occur in the form of loan agreements and other financial transactions. This entails various legal aspects surrounding most of these transactions.

In the United States of America, it is unlawful to do any kind of discrimination against any employee based on any reason. In order to avoid workplace discrimination, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964 encourages employees to report all sorts of discrimination to the concerned authorities.

The application of the laws is one of the most important elements of peace and order in our society.  The clear application of the basic laws mandates equal application, regardless of race, nationality, gender, and other demographic qualities of the involved parties.  However, in the current application of the judicial system, there are apparent discriminatory practices against some groups including the minorities.

A similar pattern is followed at the court levels with minorities facing harsher treatment as compared to Whites (Coker, 2003). American Indians are imprisoned in figures disproportionate to their national figures i.e. 16-19%. For similar crimes, African Americans are more likely to be sentenced or receive longer terms than Whites.

There was a time when a firm’s community projects were undertaken as a form of philanthropy and even public relations (Cheney, May & Munshi, 2010:234). Recent events involving firms in issues of product safety have appeared to intensify public clamor for the imposition of stronger accountability measures by the government.

Legal realism pertains to the concept that the law was created by humans, and is thus flawed. Natural Law refers to intuitive concepts of right and wrong, while Feminism Theory looks at the differences between males and females, and how this is addressed within the law.

The key element in proving material support to terrorism is mens rea. The intention of knowingly providing financial or any other form of material support to a terrorist organization has to be sustained by the prosecution in a charge of providing material support to a terrorist organization (Abram Normans, 2002, p.6).

This court order, mostly a judicial document, is always issued to the police officers to search a person or a place in order to obtain evidence for presentation in criminal prosecutions. Prior to the issuance of the search warrant, the police officer intending to carry out a search must fill out an affidavit stating particularly the person to be searched and arrested and the items sought.

One can easily identify that criminal instinct does not help individuals to lead a peaceful life. Instead, it forces the individuals to feel stress in their personal and public domains. Thesis statement: The film Good Fellas by Martin Scorsese portrays organized crime/criminal instinct and it’s after effects on human life (special references to the theme, message, genre and portrayal of life in the film).

Laws are a conglomerate of principles and rules concerning all matters of life that the authorities formulate for the standardization of limits within which individuals in the society can perform. Unlike morality, someone makes laws. Individuals are bound to respect the laws or they incur financial and/or other kinds of liabilities.

Private security forces’ history dates back to 13th century in Egypt. Egyptian pharaoh would hire Nubians, Syrians and Libyans to compliment Egypt’s military. This practice first adoption was by Romans where the rich would hire private security to guard their properties and family.

The European competition law has seen key changes in the matter of its enforcement over the past twenty years, especially after the enactment of Regulation 1/2003 which created a visible change towards the decentralized application of the competition rules and the given possibility for the national courts to decree on private antitrust cases.

Regarding this, the proponent tries to compare and contrast the role of due process and crime control models in shaping criminal procedure policy. Thus, the analysis includes a review and assessment of the Amendments of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights to the states and their potential impacts on the criminal justice system.

The focus has been put on the issue of the rights of detainees. Owing to the allegations of human rights violation by the UK government in the course of the War on Terror, the question of detainees’ rights has emerged as a complicated issue. The issue of the rights of the detainees is a very complex and dynamic legal debate and sometimes it may amount to ethical and technical dilemmas.

PROPERTY –LAND LAW EXAM ESSAY, EXAM ESSAY MODEL ON MORTGAGES Introduction A mortgage is ‘money-lending’ relationship between a landowner and a lender in which interest in land is the security. A mortgage is different from other money lending arrangements such as bank loans in the sense that it passes interest in the subject land to the lender.

Educational institutions enable individuals to realize their potential in various spheres of life, whether social, political, or economic. The state fosters and supports education to enable individuals to realize their self-worth and maximize their potential. It also enables individuals to make personal decisions that best suit them. 

The competitive nature of these markets also helps with the improvement of the quality of the services and the products that the different companies and organizations make available for their customers.

Although Demand Guarantees have a legal nature that is the same as Standby Credits, there is a difference in their operation in actual practice. Both are documentary credits. However, the governing laws are not the same. Three relationships with a common underlying contract actually exist in Demand Guarantees.

The aim of human rights is to promote the dignity of every human being regardless of their status within the society, ethnicity, gender, or origin. Deprivation of human rights is a serious injustice and as such, it is punishable by international laws. Human rights are classified into two categories. These are; civil and political rights; and economic, social, and cultural rights. 

The right to privacy is inalienable and though it is not stipulated word by word in the US Constitution, the 9th Amendment gives the Supreme Court the authority to protect it as it has done in the past in cases such as Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton. Abortion makes it possible for women to determine when they are ready to start families.

The three parts are made from the Police, Courts, and Corrections. Without criminal justice, the system would not be able to maintain the crime in America. Dealing without such a system would be virtually impossible. Crime and justice have become vital parts of today’s society; they are seen as necessary factors for the functioning of human society.

The judge who preceded the case found Mubarak together with Habib el-Adly guilty of killing unarmed demonstrators during the protests that were aimed at ending three decades of aristocratic rule.  The rule was seen by a majority as a great achievement of the revolution that was experienced in the country previously.

Regarding this, the proponent includes different generic theories that could substantially explain organized crime and criminal behaviors in detail. The proponent founds that employing not only one general theory in understanding organized crime and criminal behaviors would be of great help.

As Zimbardo’s experiment took a turn for the worse, he was capable of proving how “the situation and the system creating [the horrible behavior] must share the responsibility for illegal and immoral behavior (Zimbardo, 2007).” Zimbardo’s prison experiment involved twenty-four participants who were split into two groups - guards and prisoners.

Therefore, the fear of punitive action prevents some of them from actually committing the act. Thus, deterrence occurs when people avoid the commission of crimes as “they fear the costs of unpleasant consequences that will be imposed on them” (Nagin 70).

As a public-private partnership, it provides finances for public services and also delivers the same. The public department just makes monthly repayments for capital utilized and bears the ongoing service costs. The major objective of PFI is to increase the efficient delivery of public services and transfer risk to private enterprises.