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The law made piracy a common law offense, under the jurisdiction of the High Admiralty, tried in a special oyer and terminar court at the Old Bailey in London, presided over by an Admiralty judge, in the presence of a jury of peers. The Admiralty’s proprietary authority and jurisdiction…

Edward Humes’s book, No Matter How Loud I Shout, follows the life of seven teenage boys who are working their way through the juvenile justice system and also serving time for their crimes. No Matter How Loud I Shout provides a clear and vivid picture in readers mind about the juvenile system and how it operates. It shows readers how unjust some situations in court can be. Humes spent a year researching California’s juvenile justice system and his book was inspired by his experience. In this…

advising Eric on certain ways to severe the property and explaining the differences between joint tenancy and tenancy in common. I will be using relevant case law and statues to prove my advisory. Starting off, when Tom died he left his property Mason Towers off to his 5 children, assuming this is after the 1926 the children will be held as joint tenants instead of tenants in common. However, in the law it states that there can only be a maximum of 4 joint tenants, so the first four listed…

Across the world there are many different types of criminal justice systems to keep and maintain order and peace otherwise known as the law of the land. These criminal justice systems try to discourage people from disrupting the peace and order of society by educating their people (who lawfully live in a country, state, etc.) on the results and punishments for failing to obey the law. The criminal justice system can be separated and labeled in three main parts; policing where the act of asking…

According to Boyd (2015), negligence can be defined as the failure “to conform to a standard of reasonable care” (p. 202). In tort cases concerning negligence, unlike criminal cases, the culpability of the accused is not dependent on malicious intent. Instead, to establish negligence the plaintiff must present “a case that is more probable than not” (Boyd, 2015, p. 203). The cases of Annapolis County District School Board v. Marshall and Ediger v. Johnston contain disputes between various courts…

Over the years, the role and the responsibility of the jury have been through numerous transformations, hence these improvements made the presence of jury trials a highly controversial topic, leading to the question ‘Are juries needed in the English legal system?’. This essay aims to argue this question from different perspectives. It will first describe the evolution of the jury system and their current role in UK justice. Then, it will go through to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of…

TASK 0NE BY SAM; Judicial precedent is quite a broad doctrine in the English legal system, means a fundamental legal principle or decision made in a higher or lower court in hierarchy, the decisions made may usually influence the future occurrences by either becoming binding or persuasive precedents. The doctrine is highly influenced by three Latin legal terminologies which are; obiter Dicta, ratio decided and stare decisis. In the persuasive precedent where court is not obliged to adhere to…

Once said by Charles Darwin, “A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives- of approving of some and disapproving of others” With that said, his theory of evolution is flawed and being a moral being disapproving of the actions of his theory is something that we as a society can do. There are four points in his theory that is flawed. The first is the failure of molecular biology to provide evidence for a grand “tree of life. The second flaw is the…

. The typical common reader is someone who has the symbolic complex. A common reader may be a person who limits themselves to what is in the text. In Percy’s essay, he talks about the work of the symbolic complex. When he mentioned the symbolic complex that is likely to be the common reader. Someone who just views what is in front of them and may not look into the meaning of the text that is being read. This is exactly like the regular vacationer Percy discusses in his essay. This individual is…

In Bring on More Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Shayan Zadeh discusses his and his future business partner, Alex Mehr’s citizenship in America, to later cofound Zoosk together. Zadeh begins giving his family background that leads up to when he went to school to study computer science at Sharif University of Technology is Tehran, where he soon met his business partner. He then continues to discuss his difficulties of granting citizenship into America, and how hard it was to create their idea of Zoosk…