The Legality of the Police Stop and Search Powers
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent....
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Common Law Reasoning and Institutions
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: ‘Judicial precedent is best understood as a practice of the courts and not as a set of binding rules. As a practice it could be refined or ......
Court Protection for Companies
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: If the Court makes an order to appoint an examiner the examiners duty will be to examine the company’s affairs, the company will have the protection of the Court......
Confidentiality and Privacy
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: Confidentiality remains one of the most controversial topics in the arbitration since the 1980s....
Differences of Employees and Independent Contractors
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: In the modern industrial era employers have shifted their reliance form employees (dependant or subordinate) to self employed or independent ......
Discharge or End of a Contract
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: INTRODUCTION. In contract law, discharge or end of a contract occurs when the parties have fully performed their contractual obligations ......
Equity and Trusts
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: Melvyn is a farmer. He trades as “Hill Farm Ltd”, a company with a share issue of 1000 shares that are all owned by Melvyn. He has 300 cattle and 100 sheep....
Asylum Seekers Children in the UK
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: 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......
General Principles of Law
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: 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)...
Protection Afforded by the Common Law to Employees Against Stress
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: 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....
Invasion of Privacy Is Not an Acknowledged Tort in the UK
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: Although there is no acknowledged Tort for privacy, there are ways in which it is protected. It has long been acknowledged in case law that there ......
Claims Within the Construction Industry
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: Problem Specification Claims within the construction industry are a common phenomenon as contractors often look to claim for financial ......
Compensation for Pure Psychiatric Harm
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: 'The law on the recovery of compensation for pure psychiatric harm is a patchwork quilt of distinctions which are difficult to justify', Lord ......
To What Extent Does the Current Law Allow a Householder to Use Fatal Force Against an Intruder and Is the Current Approach Satisfactory?
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: 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]....
Comparing English and French Legal Systems
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: “Legal systems are there to determine what will happen when people have disputes. Legal rules are also there so people can order their lives in ......
Penology and the Ethics of Punishment
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: 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...
Understanding Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: Everyone have a right in a freedom. If person did not break the law, they cannot be punished. Individuals cannot be charged without proper and ......
Right of Set-Off Under Building Contracts
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: Right of Set-Off Under Building Contracts. The Dawnays case laid down a rule for the construing building contracts where monies have been deducted from interim payments to sub-constructors. In Dawnays Court of Appeal held that when a sum is certified by an architect as due under a building contract, the employer has no right of set-off....
Rule of Law Offers Protection for Citizens
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: Law protects a society from anarchism . It is a set of conducts that is established and enforced by a sovereign authority to ensure and maintain ......
The Balance of Power between the Federal Government
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: When we think of a ‘balance of power’ we think of a weighing of interests between two entities, in this case the federal and ......
Proposal Must Be Definite Promise to Be Bound Provided Specified Terms
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: Richard Chong made an advertisement in the local newspaper, The Star, to reward RM 1000 to anyone who can find and return his lost dog to him, on 1......
Corporate Frauds World Over
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: Corporate frauds world over, are extremely dangerous gambles the corporate executives or employees for a variety of profit maximizing motives encouraged by poor corporate governance mechanisms....
Trends in Copyrightability of the Spoken Word
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: “But why is there no property in ideas uttered in conversation, and in spoken words, while there is property in ideas and words when they come ......
What is Copyright?
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: ......
An Express Trust
8th Aug 2019
Introduction: In English law it is said that a trust places one of the most powerful obligations on the trustee and as a consequence, its responsibilities ......
