Articles tagged as UK Law
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Property Possession and Co-ownership
Land Law
Property Possession and Co-ownership. Co-ownership is the term used to describe the forms of ownership in which two or more persons are concurrently entitled in possession to an interest or interests in the same......
Last modified: 9th Jul 2019
Who Will Inherit Your Property?
Properties and Trusts
I’m writing this letter consiquent to our meeting of 29-12-09 wherein you made the following requirements.You wanted to know who will inherit your property if you die without a valid will while still married to Romeo....
Last modified: 9th Jul 2019
Freehold Properties
Properties and Trusts
All the five properties owned by Miss Stanfield can be classed as freehold properties as each property satisfies section 1(1)(a) Law of Property Act 1925....
Last modified: 9th Jul 2019
Trusts Property and the Trustee
Properties and Trusts
Trusts Property and the Trustee. The opening quotation can be said to identify one of the basic tenets of trust law in England and Wales. The trust is a creation of equity, and has developed over the centuries......
Last modified: 9th Jul 2019
The Main Categories of Constructive Trust
Properties and Trusts
Constructive trusts exist where it is right that the owner of some property should not enjoy it personally, but should hold it on trust for another....
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Registration of Property
Properties and Trusts
First registration operates after there has been a transfer of the legal title and normally takes place as a result of the provisions for......
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Duties, Discretions and Powers of Trustees
Properties and Trusts
Duties and powers of a trustee are listed according to the proper law by which the trust is governed. Duties required for a trustee are set out by different jurisdictions which have their own legislation....
Last modified: 9th Jul 2019
A Liability in Negligence Case Study
Tort Law
For an defendant’s liability in negligence to exist, the claimant must show the defendant either did something, that led to him suffering a harm....
Last modified: 9th Jul 2019
R v Misra and Srivastava
Case Summaries
Two doctors were convicted of gross negligence manslaughters when their post-operative patient became infected with a staphylococcus aureus......
Last modified: 5th Jul 2019
R v Hall - 1973
Case Summaries
The defendant travel agent received deposit monies from various clients to pay for flights to the United States. He paid the monies......
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R v Bowen - 1996
Case Summaries
Bowen had obtained a number of electrical goods, over a series of visits to the value of £20,000. He had done so by applying for a number of ‘instant......
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R v Bounekhla
Case Summaries
The defendant was convicted of three counts of sexual assault after he deliberately and surreptitiously ejaculated on women while dancing......
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R v Lewis
Case Summaries
John Lewis (J), a French-American seaman, injured a German man (G) on board an American ship on the high seas. G died in hospital......
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R v Hall - 1985
Case Summaries
The defendant, Hall, was accused of handling stolen property. He denied knowing that it was stolen, stating only that he was suspicious of the property......
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R v Stewart [2009] 1 WLR 2507 Case Summary
Case Summaries
Case Summary of R v Stewart [2009] 1 WLR 2507. Issues surrounding intoxication as a defence...
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R v Dawson and James - 1976
Case Summaries
One defendant pushed the victim who lost his balance enabling the second defendant to steal his wallet. The two defendants were convicted......
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R v Home Secretary, ex p Northumbria Police Authority
Case Summaries
Public disturbances some years earlier resulted in the Home Office opting to create a stock of CS gas (commonly known as riot control gas)......
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R v Poulton - 1832
Case Summaries
A mother strangled her newborn baby, and was charged with the murder. Three medical men testified before a jury that a child can die during......
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Pre Hospital Ethics and Legal Issues
Medical Law
The role of a paramedic is challenging, they are constantly first on the scene, make life and death decisions, and must treat people without ......
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This Party Claim in Property Ownership
Properties and Trusts
We are specifically interested in the species of interests[2] which would not have to be registered and so could potentially be unknown...
Last modified: 5th Jul 2019
Woman With Dementia Refusing Treatment
Medical Law
The community needs to explore a elderly patients rights to end of life and quality of life decisions though beneficence, non-maleficence and ......
Last modified: 5th Jul 2019
Law of Trust Distinguished
Properties and Trusts
A trust is the creature of Equity and not of common law. Equity can be described as the body of rules which evolved from those rules applied and administered by the Court of Chancery before the Judicature Act 1873....
Last modified: 5th Jul 2019
The Concept of Vulnerability in Relation to a Fictitious Study
Medical Law
Vulnerability is difficult to define. Although everyone is vulnerable to harm, some are more vulnerable than others ( Aday et al, 1993). Vulnerabl......
Last modified: 5th Jul 2019
Regulation of Insider Trading
Trading Law
The issue of insider tradingis as old as trading on equity markets itself....
Last modified: 5th Jul 2019
