Causation in English law

Correlation isn't Causation To begin let us define correlation and causation. The correlation- Causation fallacy is the error of assuming that because one thing is associated with another, it must cause the other. The reason why its so important for people to understand the difference is because just because two things are a related to one another ( Correlation ) doesn't mean that one thing influence the outcome of the other( Causation ). For example, kids who get an allowance are more finically responsible. This is a great example of how Correlation isn't Causation it may occur that kids who do get allowance seem to be more responsible with their money but it doesn't have to mean that though they receive an allowance that that's…

became crucially important during the seventeenth century to shield sailors from potential charges. English courts clearly identified the legal demarcation between privateers and pirates as early as the fourteenth century. The sovereign issued commissions to privateer captains authorizing them to attack the vessels of specified enemy nations. Since piracy included an element of robbery, no property legally changed hands as a result of such undertakings. Therefore, English law required that…

years between 1607 and 1754, the use of salutary neglect, a British Policy that that prevented the use of England’s laws for the colonies in order to maintain the obedience from the colonies to England, contributed to the foundations of the British Colonists’ own government by giving the population the same rights as the British, through mercantilism, and through…

A conflict, within the context of “Conflicts as Property” by Nils Christie, is something in which one owns. Similarly, the ownership of conflict can be compared to the ownership of property, hence the title of the article. Throughout the article, Nils Christie conveys that every person should have the right to fight their own conflict, however, due to the current social structure in places such as Canada, that right can be taken away or even stolen by professionals. Nils Christie further proves…

For example, several components of English common law were taken into account when building the framework of our government, the most important of which was the Magna Carta, written in the Middle Ages. The Magna Carta introduced two crucial ideas - the idea of equality under the law and the right to a fair trial by jury. The document explicitly says, “to no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay right or justice.” Additionally, the thirty-ninth clause states that no man can be…

The Crown had appealed the case on a question of law alone. The Ontario Supreme Court granted the appeal. The Court understood that it had the task of looking into the correctness of both this decision and the decision of R. V. Dix. In the end, both decisions were found to have been wrongfully decided. The Court had admitted that the decision in R. V. Dix was in fact wrong, and it did not comply with the laws and rules of the common law. The court also stated that people should not be able to…

defence of NCRMD, the defence council has to prove that she has a mental disorder on the balance of probabilities under section 16(2) of the Criminal Code (Criminal Code, 1991). The psychiatrists have explained that she heard the voice of God urging her to commit the alleged offence. Even though this section violates section 11 (d): the presumption of innocence of the Charter of Rights and Freedom, section 1 of the Charter saves the Crown (Canadian Charter, 1982). Section 16(1) of the Criminal…

Sir Thomas More’s titular nation of Utopia has come to colloquially express a society free of conflict. A “Utopia” is that place where there are (virtually or literally) no poor, no class struggles, no crimes, etc. More’s Utopia, as described through the recollection of the landless traveler/philosopher Raphael Hythloday, achieves these ends primarily through its commonplace “laws,” i.e., its distributed model of property. Jonathan Swift’s scathing satire “A Modest Proposal…” sardonically…

another concern into the spotlight, the problems surrounding the idea of stand-your-ground laws. Following Florida v. Zimmerman, the then Attorney General Eric Holder would criticize stand-your-ground laws as “senselessly expand[ing] the concept of self-defense and sow[ing] dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods”. (Holder 2013) The problems that Attorney General Holder and others have found in stand-your-ground laws stems from the fact that laws…

known to have derived from the Common Law legal tradition, which is one of the four major families of law (Dammer and Albanese, 2014, p. 42). It should be noted that most legal traditions originated from the type of religion practiced in the region or country. Originally Common Law originated from when William the Conqueror captured England and became its King. He faced difficulty trying to rule his subjects as he was French, and due to some other anticipated obstacles when conquering a…