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are: the judicial waiver, prosecutorial discretion, and statutorial exclusion. Judicial waiver is the most commonly used transfer mechanism, and it involves judicial prosecutors and/or judges making the decision based on the circumstances (offense criteria, age, etc.). Prosecutorial discretion occurs in those states that have determined with its statutes that prosecutors should have the authority to decide whether the juvenile will be tried in juvenile court or in the adult court. The final…

In a region like the Arab world, where some countries follow a common law system, some a civil law system, and many are influenced by Sharia, how is the legal profession defined? Who are the actors, drivers, and enforcers of the profession? Law is one of the three oldest learned professions. It originated from a need…

system of England and Wales as we know today has emerged through the evolution of society and culturization. A demonstration of how drastically the system has changed, is that since the nineteenth century, there were particular courts for equity and common law. Forward to present day, the structure of higher courts were set by the ‘Supreme Court of Judicature Acts 1873 and 1875. In detail, the earliest courts are known as magistrate courts, with the newest court forged in 2009, known as the…

Disability Equity Programmes Fail So, why do workplace programmes aimed at including and mainstreaming of persons with disabilities fail, even when they were founded with the best intentions? Based on my in-the-field experience, I have highlighted six common ‘mistakes’, pitfalls and barriers that directly contribute…

also conscious that saying an unjust law is not a law is a contradiction, when he talked about the peripheral sense of law. Indeed, he explained that law has two senses. On the one hand, law has a focal meaning, “it describes rules which secure the common good by co-ordinating the different goods of individuals” . Consequently, according to him, unjust laws are not laws “in the focal sense of the term” . In fact, it means that Nazi laws don’t show the best example of a law because they are not…

(Jackson, 2008). Blepharitis may be subdivided into anterior and posterior although there is considerable overlap and both are often present (Carlisle & Digiovanni, 2015). Staphylococcus bacteria has been associated with blepharitis which is more common in women than men (Liu, Sheha, & Tseng, 2010). Blepharitis symptoms are usually worse upon awakening as a result some people might experience frontal headache (Liu, Sheha, & Tseng, 2010). Blepharitis clinical presentation includes: itchy and…

The given question has dealt with the area of private express trusts under which one must consider whether the question represent the constitution and three certainties. In order to consider the given issue as a private trust we must first consider whether it fulfills the requirements of creating a trust. Which can be acquired by considering various requirements such as capacity, formality, legality and public policy etc. When considering what is the impact of equity ; general…

a current or former partner in Australia, not including unreported or unsolved cases. Whilst a variety of legal and non-legal mechanisms exist for the victims of violence, the effectiveness of these must be scrutinized through the examination of criteria such as the equality, enforceability, accessibility and opportunity for appeals and reviews of these instruments.…

Professor John Rawls believed one element of justice is equality; equality of opportunity and equal distribution of rights, powers, freedoms and resources in society (The Open University, (OU), 2016d, 7.1). This essay will look to see if justice delivered by the courts of England and Wales via the adversarial system is providing equality in the wake of recent budget cuts to legal aid, or whether adoption of an inquisitorial system is required. To do this, the nature of the cuts and changes to…

A Case Comment on ‘K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra’ 1961 Legal methods project ___________________________________________________________________________ Submitted to: Professor Amita Dhanda Submitted by: Rahul Sibbal (1st year BA-LLB) NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW, JUSTICE CITY, HYDERABAD Introduction “Love Affair…