... shall unlawfully and maliciously commit any damage, injury, or spoil being to an amount exceeding five pounds, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.'5 The first person to be charged under this act was in the case of R v Pembliton6 ...

... fraud. In the situation with defrauding Dave, it may be argued that "silence as a false pretence" was involved. Dave could have acquired the computer for free, and would have probable done so, had he known that the company offered a ...

... data collected regarding various crimes committed. Through statistical data gathered from the various crimes committed, efforts can be made to define, and outline what the factors regarding crime commission are. Police and other law enforcement agencies can begin to determine traits ...

... offenses. With a media-driven political climate that played to the voter's fears, California's Three-Strikes law soon imposed a mandatory 25 years-to-life sentence for non-violent crimes. With a prior arrest record, stealing a videotape could result in a prison sentence of ...

... it is predicted that they will continue to change. Malleson believes that these ongoing transformations in the professions will actually provide a similar, if not more beneficial change to the provision of legal services than an actual merger of the ...

... 3(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1967, it states: 'A person may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances in the prevention of crime, or in effecting or assisting in the lawful arrest of offenders or suggested offenders or ...

... expectators so far as it is possible, and that they should continue to do so".3 The doctrine of proprietary estoppel was first recognised by the House of Lords in Ramsden v Dyson4 This case involved a yearly tenant who believed that ...

... though there are other statutes such as the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 which gives the police powers to stop and search people in connection with particular offences. S.1 of PACE 1984 gives police officers the right to stop and search ...

... proceedings against a member state for failing to fulfil its community law obligations. The second is the power of national courts to refer a point of community law, which arises in domestic proceedings for a preliminary ruling. Here the courts ...

... of membership to the EU, in particular, the areas of law which are regulated by the EU, Parliament has lost its supremacy. It can no longer make its own laws in those areas. If it does and those laws contradict ...

... British transsexuals took their cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, arguing that British law's refusal to allow them to change the sex on their birth certificate deprived them of their right to respect for a private ...

... breach. Apart from death, it can be terminated only by a formal legal act pronounced by a court of competent jurisdiction.6 It will be argued that, as marriage is a construct of the state in the sense that it is an ...

... an unreasonable result. When this happens the court may be asked not so much to choose a meaning but to rewrite the words to produce a sensible result. This raises the question of whether and to what extent it is ...

... it became his property or belonged to another and the person is considered to be dishonest in accepting the property. The decision of the House of Lords was based on 2 cases DPP v Gomez [1993] A.C.442 and Lawrence v ...

... assuring fans and the press that she was on the road to recovery, Miss Campbell argued that the information printed in the paper and the intrusion into her private life caused a breach of confidence and was in no way ...

... is. The lynch pin for Dworkin's attack on Hartian discretion was the alleged omission of principles from Harts description of what standards judges bring to bear when they make decisions . Dworkin should be credited with highlighting these other kinds ...

... 'he who comes to equity must come with clean hands' prevented M from being able to claim her share in the property. "For a plea of unclean hands to succeed two requirements must be satisfied: the conduct complained of must have ...

... harm, or in a supplementary role within a regulatory system. However, it seems to be more effective in its supplementary role. This is because the whole objective of criminal law is to punish clearly identified wrongs, but in reference to ...

... harm, or in a supplementary role within a regulatory system. However, it seems to be more effective in its supplementary role. This is because the whole objective of criminal law is to punish clearly identified wrongs, but in reference to ...

... harm, or in a supplementary role within a regulatory system. However, it seems to be more effective in its supplementary role. This is because the whole objective of criminal law is to punish clearly identified wrongs, but in reference to ...

... measures provide a third and final illustration of the welfare potential of EU pension-related activity. Thus, if adopted, the proposed draft Directive on removing occupational pension obstacles to people's willingness to move between EU states to work, could, possibly, lead ...

... Sir Ivor Jennings statement that, "If parliament enacted that all men should be women, they would be women so far as the law is concerned," indicates the extent of parliaments sovereignty. Parliament's supremacy is upheld by the fact that no ...

... In Walker v New South Wales 2 he again denied the possibility of judicial recognition of Aboriginal customary law in his decision. On the other hand, Zdenkowski argues that the recognition of Aboriginal customary punishment by the general legal system ...

... time: No assignment_cover_sheet_a532.doc Issue 3 26.03.03 Page 1 of 1 AIPS Essay Title Page Title of Assignment Topic Subject Title and Code: Legal Process LPC1126 Lecturer: Mr Peter Wilkins Student Name: Steve Withers Student Number: H06367-04 Due Date: 07/05/04 Word Limit: 2000 Actual Word Count: 1902 Institute: Australian ...

... morally binding. The positivist orientation in most of the Western legal scholarship on African laws reflects the narrow lego-centric and euro-centric approaches that are simply not adequate for a globally focused comparative legal analysis. From a positivist perspective, traditional African ...