Law Essays

Aafia Siddiqui is Pakistani scientist-neurobiologist. A woman and her family were accused in the intention to destroy America after she disappeared in 2003 and was caught in 2008. A woman was reported to shoot the crime

Formally, however, the country’s military is accountable to the people through parliament. Each financial year, the legislature must approve the proposed defence budget, which the executive relies on to keep the army ineffective. Parliament must also renew the laws upon which the armed forces' activities are based by passing an Armed Forces Bill.

The need to resolve emerging disputes between business partners cannot over emphasized as it is obvious that failure to resolve the disputes only makes the business go sour. The emerging questions on whether the law can intervene

Policing in the United States has undergone transitions in history. It was influenced by the policing system in the ancient United Kingdom, by Robert Peel. The nation’s initial policing system consisted of locally

Acceptance can be defined as the process of showing a willingness to abide by the terms of an offer. In most cases, acceptance must be absolute and unconditional – all the terms of the offer should be accepted without setting any conditions or changing the terms of the offer. However, the person being given an offer may require that the terms of the contract be changed.

The trading activities conducted in the foreign exchange market are rapidly developing the new payment systems, which are highly influenced by the advancement in financial instruments. In certain scenarios, it has been noticed that the advancement in the payment system activities prevailing in a nation, has resulted in radical transformation.

These exceptions exist, in order to protect the carrier from being liable for the loss of the goods in dire circumstances (Wilson, 2001). Such exceptions protect the carrier to the extent of their ability to prove that it was indeed necessary to lose the goods at sea. I agree with the exceptions because they only operate at sea.

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is the term used to describe the different alternative processes used to resolve a dispute without going into the trail. There are different types of these processes namely: arbitration, mediation, collaborative family law, summary judge trials, parenting coordination, case conferencing and neutral evaluation.

Players in the personnel staffing industry have their pricing strategies that are communicated to the employers before a service. The existent of prices and the services to be offered imply that there exists an unwritten contract between them. From the recruiter’s standpoint, signing written agreements wastes a lot of time due to the formalities involvedeements is high when the commission charges are low.

There are certain indicators of suicide-by-cop, as every killing by legal officials, cannot be regarded as suicide-by-cop. The subjects who go for suicide-by-cop usually possess weapons whether it is a pistol, gun, or knife, but they have weapons.

article can be used by policy makers and the administrators of different criminal justice agencies in tackling various issues experienced by the area of community corrections. One of the problems that is being faced by the area of community corrections is that the workload of

From the time China became a member of the WTO, it has hastened its activities of revising its current laws and regulations. according to available literature reviews, china had by the year 2002 revised 37 administrative regulations and 14 laws, annulled a total of 12 administrative regulations, changed about 1,000 departmental rules and measures, and suspended a total of 34 relevant documents.

In some American states, the requirement for transferring an accused youth under the maximum age of jurisdiction into any criminal has been changed a lot. According to Richmond, W (2004), this is a twisted kind of since the youths are judged as mature, responsible adults if they get involved in criminal activities like commit murder.    

Contemporary scholars seek to understand and evaluate the relevance of the crime-social status relationships and their effects on the broader social trends. Needless to say, different scholars treat the link between social position and crime in entirely different ways. More often than not, they readily accept the view.

Being an off duty police officer allows present personal behaviour and intention that should be legal in every sense and finding drugs at a friend’s house can be considered as a moral issue. Morality differentiates between the right and the wrong. It needs to be

One of the situations is called the “whistleblower exception”, which protects employees who report their employers for illegal or unethical conduct or policies. The whistleblower exceptions fall into two categories: statutory legislation and common law court rulings. There are many legislative protections for employees who report their employers.

Society therefore is one of the key instruments which identify what is right and acceptable and what is not. Any deviance from unacceptable therefore attracts the punishment

Leo, Sharon, Ben, and Sonya buy a house in equal shares. The house needs a lot of work to be done on it which includes the work done by Sharon and Sonya of repairing the roof. The main issue is that all of them have some shares of the house and hence are entitled to various benefits (Cooke, 2003. P. 41). An issue may arise where one may want to transfer their shares to another person since they are not registered.

As the text has it, today, marine insurance is critical in ensuring the interest of parties to the cargo, hull, the marine adventure or third-party liability. The insurer would then compensate the insured according to the indemnity contract in the event of a loss as a result of the insured risk.

The article is very helpful in showing why the amelogenin gene, which verifies sex, could be improved by twofold PCR method. This discussion has really helped me to understand how

Ten days before the incidence, she had experienced a severe miscarriage. To control the pain The Appellant was under Fiorinal medication, which contains barbiturate. The defense council had assessed the possibility of insanity, which would have given a not guilty

The author states that on numerous occasions, his supervisors gave him urgent work that was required on short notice, and because of his attention to detail and hard work, there wasn’t any single day that he disappointed them. Associating nicely with his colleagues enabled him to get the positive remarks from them.

uspects and defendants are processed by these agencies and their decisions are interdependent affecting each others’ processes (The Structure of Criminal Justice, n.d.). The present study focuses on the process of evolution of such a system of criminal justice intending to

The United States of America is still replete with racial discriminations long after human rights legislation and other forms of campaigns rid all areas where racial discrimination occurs. Minority groups and races are still facing some form of discrimination in hiring, firing, pay, and promotion for those who have already been employed.

The LEDEDCA embodies strategic reforms to the Housing Grants under the previous statute, the Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. The main aim of the reforms was to correct perceived misgivings in the 1996 Act and keep the construction industry in line with the current trends and quality and stringent regulatory requirements.

Workplace violence and bullying are two different issues related to employee safety, although it is necessary to treat both the issues as similar within the context of occupational health and safety. Both issues are related to abuse of power in the workplace. However, workplace violence refers to criminal behavior unrelated to the work setting such as “assaults, threats, damage to property, verbal obscenities, sexual harassment, etc."

Generally, the public remained divided over the Patriot Act.  Even though there has been widespread debate over the Patriot Act over the years, the fact is based on the premise that the public has both been positive as well as negative about this act ever since it came into its own in the year 2001.

The author explains that Keep Fit & Well Co Ltd is a renowned fitness company, which has three centers in the South Sea, Cosham, and Fareham. The company’s administration under the supervision of manager Cathy at the South Sea center dismisses Abe, a receptionist based on the wrongly accused of theft, which was actually done by Bruce, head of Abe.

However, these provisions differ from country to country based on the corporate specifications provided to govern business entities. In an argument by DeMott (2001) the law seeks to limit fraud

During their most successful periods, these groups were major controlling factor of the Russian economy. They developed as one of the

Much research shows a correlation between alcohol and reaction times, driving performance, and even the many accidents occurring on our roads. Many states of the United States have laws that make it illegal for any person to drive with a blood alcohol concentration exceeding 10%. By driving while drunk, one not only poses danger to him/herself.

Money laundering is a phenomenon whereby individuals endeavor to reintroduce illicitly acquired money into the legitimate cash flow channels. This illegitimate money is usually sourced from predicating activities that are of criminal nature, such as the ones highlighted above. Corruption on its part encompasses a wide range of activities.

Confinement in such units is a form of punishment that seeks to modify disorderly behavior, to isolate gang members, or at times, merely to fill up the empty solitary units. Regardless of the reasons, the rationale for solitary confinement does not

Jack, an employee of Karen’s for five years, entered into a contract with Karen’s bank to allow his flat to be used as security against the company’s overdraft. The business’s fortunes did not improve. The business failed and the bank is seeking possession of Jack’s flat’s to reclaim the £500,000 due to them from Karen’s company.

The NHS was created at the initiative of the Labour Party in 1948. Aneurin Bevan was credited with the slogan “free health care for all”. However, health care is not free— patients have to pay for the services. A Conservative government was in power in the UK for 20 years and it was only on 1st May 1997 that a labor government was elected.

David Hoath maintains that the case of Parker v. British Airways Board has made some inroads with respect to this area of the law by providing some basic principles and guidelines for the determination of title to the finding of lost chattels. Any clarification offered by Parker v British Airways Board has been blurred.

In referring to man and the city in Book the eight, about how they could achieve a good government he explains that they should be certain commonalities that are to be shared such as education, we have life, peace-loving and their Kings should be proficient not only in warfare but also in philosophy.

Dred Scott addressed certain controversial issues about race, including that slaves and their descendants could never be U.S. citizens. It had nothing to do with Louisiana or meatpacking, nor at the time of the ruling had the 13th and 14th Amendments yet been proposed, much less adopted. So the circumstances of the two cases seem unconnected. 

As the author of the text puts it, the problem of gangs in the country continues to increase rapidly according to the Justice Department’s National Youth Gang Center. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there are 30,000 various gangs with a total of about 800,000 members by 2008.

The US District Court decision of the United States vs. Yunis case stands for the acceptance of certain principles of extraterritorial jurisdiction allowing prosecution of terrorists in the United States (Wegner). In other words, the said case has become the model for the prosecution of terrorists in the US courts.  

In comparative law, it is evident that there are many circumstances where some legal terms can be interpreted to have different meanings or when different legal terms and applications can have similar meanings. Practically, not a single study has ever had an elucidative analysis of the differences between criminal and civil law (Maguire, 2007).

The jury acts as a revelatory of the public’s feeling. Generally, the public has confidence in the jury system because it values public participation. For example, in R v Ponting for example, D, working as a civil servant, saw documents

Generally speaking, Sir Thomas Bingham’s interpretation of Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) appears to overly restrict the national courts’ discretionary powers. As such Sir Bingham’s interpretation of Article 267 may not be entirely compatible with Article 267.

It was mandated to bring reforms to how prisoners were treated. The group came up with two models, i.e. Pennsylvania model and New York model. Pennsylvania model was advocating for the separation and confinement of prisoners. It was aimed at giving prisoners time to repent and denying contact an aspect that was aimed at instilling discipline.

According to the case, State D only issued a notification criticizing State’s B move to include a reservation which is notably provided by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treatise under Section 2, Article 19. This was not enough to prompt the withdrawal of the State from the 1994 extradition treaty.

In the case of Alcan, the competent court rejected the government’s arguments that a hearing is not imminent since Alcan has admitted that its emulsion was diluted with the other wastes. The court thought that the above-noted cases can best be resolved at the initial liability stage since it involves a precise degree of liability.

The author states that fraud and/or abuse perpetrated by an employee entail the use of false information, practices, or procedures to obtain compensatory benefits that the employee is not entitled. Eligibility for such benefits is jeopardized, thus resulting in abuse or fraudulent activities that relate to worker’s compensation.

The author emphasizes the importance many attorneys places on the advancements in jury selection when comparing it to their own speculation and intuitiveness. The attorney’s expertise is in the law, specifically the presentation of facts in the trial and often overlooks the nuances of jury member’s attitudes and biases.

The paper is an investigation into the laws of exclusion of evidence, which is unclear or inconsistent in some cases. The instrumental documents include recent case files, from where the Davis Vs. United states case was obtained. The police were wrong to search Davis’ car since it was a violation of the provisions of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. 

Other criminal penalties are taken against corporate officers who fail to certify financial statements and reports and those that harm others intentionally. Companies that do not conform to the act suffer penalties such as de-listing from the stock exchange, being charged huge fines, loss of insurance, and imprisonment.