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Legal Aid – Access to Justice in the UK

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Legal aid funds advice to help people understand their legal obligations and if necessary enforce their legal rights. It protects people’s rights……

The Structure of the Defence [Of Loss of Control]

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The coroner and justice act 2009 has received royal assent on November 2009. The old common law based provocation has always been the subject of criticism and proposals ……

Can Restorative Justice Provide Alternative Criminology?

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Restorative Justice is a process to “make things as right as possible” which includes: attending to needs created by the offense such as safety and repair of injuries to relationships and physical damage resulting from the offense; and attending to needs related to the cause of the offense…

What is Copyright?

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

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Does Prison Work? Arguments For and Against Prisons

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Effectiveness of prisons is a hot debate topic but it’s not easy to say whether prisons are effective or not. Studies have definitely revealed that high incarceration have lead to low crimes in countries like Australia, England, New Zealand and United states but at the same time critics have argued that high incarceration rate have inflicted upon high crime rates in England and United States…

Penology and the Ethics of Punishment

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Deontological moral systems are characterized by a focus on obedience to independent moral rules or duties. In order to make correct moral choices, one hash to understand what his or her moral duties…

Should UK Go for the New Homicide Law of 20th Century?

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The current Law of Homicide has been subject to relentless criticisms among the concerned ones. Many scholars find this Act severely superannuated…….

Discussion of Classical and Biological Criminology Theories

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The purpose of this essay is to discusses two of the most major theories of criminology: classical and biological. It will then analyze each of the theories and their main assumptions and comparing and contrasting their approaches to crime….

Offender Profiling

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Equity Had to Supplement the Common Law

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The concept of equity derived in order to balance fair results in some individual circumstances. In the past there were some strict decisions in ……

There Are Two Ways to Create an Express Trust

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

There are two ways to create en express trust; these are declaration of self as a trustee and the transfer of property to trustees. For an express……

Evidence Leaves the Matter in Doubt

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The burden of proof (onus probandi) can be defined as a legal duty upon a party to prove or disprove a disputed fact or facts during the course of ……

Jury Law System

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Jury Law System – The issues, which are being discussed The historic decline of trial by Jury is to be welcomed….

Awakening from China to Peru?

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

McPhail v Doulton is not only a case that presents many challenges for criticism but also a case that has a significant position in English Equity…

To What Extent Does the Current Law Allow a Householder to Use Fatal Force Against an Intruder and Is the Current Approach Satisfactory?

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The doctrine of self-defence is a general defence which is considered to have been ‘an appropriate course of action in the circumstances in which he found himself'[1] carried out in the aim of reducing the risk of the individual becoming a victim of violence[2]….

Industrial Relations in Ireland

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Industrial relation became increasingly popular over the past number of years with the increase of financial prosperity in nearly all industries….

Corruption of Probation and Parole Officers

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

A There are ethnical guidelines for probation and parole officers who are provided by the American correctional association code as well as by their own ethics code….

Liability for Stress at Work

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The most recent development in the field of employment-based personal injury claims concerns stress-related conditions. The issue has ……

Interpretation of the Industrial Dispute Act

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

A controversy or dispute is a matter of opinion over which parties actively disagree, argue, or debate. Controversies can range in size from ……

Employee Status and Applying Common Law

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Employee status is a perennially contentious feature of employment law. The workforce is ever more complex and, although employees ……

Protection Afforded by the Common Law to Employees Against Stress

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

At common law, an employer owes an employee certain duties that arise from an employment relationship. One of them is health and safety at work….

The Protected Characteristic of Religion or Belief

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Religious discrimination is more complicated than other forms of discrimination because it is intrinsically linked to racial, ethnic and cultural discrimination…

Payment and Promotion Discrimination at Wal-Mart

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

In this respect, it is possible to refer to the experience of Wal-Mart, which faces the problem of payment and promotion discrimination of female employees (Trevor, 2005). In actuality, the discrimination of female employees tends to disappear but, nonetheless, the problem of discrimination persists, including such large companies as Wal-Mart. …

The Existence of an Employment Contract

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Employment law is fundamentally a contractual relationship, heavily influence by EC law. It concerns a relationship between employee and ……

An Employee or Independent Contractor

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Is Guinevere an employee? What is the nature of the relationship between Guinevere and Magic Computers? Is Guinevere an employee or independent ……

Categorization of Employment Status in UK Law

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Employee, worker and self employed persons should enjoy different legal status as the kind of work done by each category of persons is different ……

Both the Actus Reus and the Mens Rea Will Have to Be Proven

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

As with any criminal offence there has to be two parts to the crime, the Actus Reus and the Mens Rea. The Actus Reus is all the elements of a……

What Constitutes Murder has Changed Overtime

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

What constitutes murder has changed overtime. The scope of the law of murder is still a matter of controversy and opinions of legislative, executive and judicial branch are divided….

UK Copyright Law

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

In some respects, UK copyright law is not very generous towards authors and performers….

Obligation in English Law

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Titled Obligation in English Law, this sample essay for LawTeacher.net in the English legal system tackles thr strength of trust law….

The UK Response to Corporate Governance

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The objective of this paper is to explore the adequacy of the UK response to corporate governance by examining the relationship between the various factions within a company….

Pre Trial Decisions and Rising Guilty Pleas

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The ‘Mass Production Of Guilty Pleas’ Is The Primary Purpose Of The Pre Trial Decisions. Discuss. What is a guilty plea and how is it that the guilty pleas of defendants keep rising? Is it to do with mens rea? Or are they just doing as their told?…

Environmental Criminal Liability: Imposing Sanctions

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

This assignment will take an overview of the criminal activities that take place in the arena of environmental law and assess the sanctions imposed….

Long Term Take or Pay Contracts

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

“The most common disputes that project finance lawyers come across are over the terms and enforceability of long term take or pay contracts ……

Ideology Influences in Judicial Decision Making

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

What is legal liberalism? Does a liberal form of rights fail to remedy systemic forms of discrimination? Why or why not?…

Mistake is Mainly Error in Consent

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Mistake in legal sense bears a more restricted meaning than in popular parlance. Mistake, which vitiates a contract, is sometimes referred to as “operative mistake”. At common law mistake of expression, want of mutuality and failure of expression would seem to stand apart from the law of mistake….

Revocation or Termination of an Offer

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Introduction Offer and Acceptance must be established before an agreement or a contract can be said to have occurred. For two parties to reach ……

Models Due Process Crime

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General Principles of Law

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The classic account given by Dicey of the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament, pure and absolute as it was, can now be seen to be out of place in the modern United Kingdom… (Lord Steyn in R (Jackson and Others) v. Attorney General)…

Compare and Contrast the English Approach

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The frequent case scenario as regards bank lending transactions involves three parties; the creditor which is the lending institution……

Asylum Seekers Children in the UK

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Asylum seekers children are faced and suffered from the scourge of war they are not decided to wage it or even to effect on it. They are paying t……

Sexual Harassment in a Workplace

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

How does Viper work? Viper scans your work against over 6 billion web pages, as well as against all work previously submitted to our company. Viper……

Legal Issues Involved in Grievance, Discipline and Dismissal Process

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

This assignment focuses on the grievance, discipline and dismissal process and procedure. The following literature is based on the ……

Ethics in Criminal Justice

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The Deontological Ethical system, or otherwise called the nonconsequentialist system which relates to moral theories can be best described as a system which was dependent not on the result of the action but on the reason why the act was committed….

Problem Question on Equity and Trusts

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

The owner of the legal interest cannot be a trustee of the trust property until aware of the facts alleged to affect his conscience. In order to establish a trust there must be identifiable trust property…

Problem Question – Dispositions to a Will

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

When considering any disposition it is paramount to interpret it in such way that most effectively fulfils the testator’s intention and to ensure that the true intention is not exposed to any injustices that could alter the original meaning….

Peer to Peer Technology Copyright

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Peer to Peer Technology Copyright. P2P is the most recent manifestation of how new technology challenges existing copyright law both in the US and Europe. Critically evaluate the extent to which copyright law has responded or ought to respond to the issues raised by such technological developments….

Criminal Law Is There to Create Harmony

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

Criminal law is there to create harmony in the modern British society; to govern the way people behave (not like in the communist world). It is the……

Differences of Employees and Independent Contractors

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

In the modern industrial era employers have shifted their reliance form employees (dependant or subordinate) to self employed or independent ……

Main Elements Constituting a Valid Contract

Essay. Published: February 2, 2018

A contract has six important elements so that it will be valid which is offer, acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relation, certainty and capacity. If the main elements are not in contract, it would be an invalid contract….