European Court of Justice

The Human Rights Act (HRA) is argued to be a fundamental instrument in the United Kingdom’s (UK) constitution. It allows the rights and freedoms of the individual to be protected from the state within Domestic Courts. The Act has been under h scrutiny for decades surrounding the conflicts that it poses on the UK’s unwritten constitution and the fundamental doctrines of Parliamentary sovereignty, Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law. Due to this, there have been proposals made by many…

Although the claimant and respondent spoke to each other to address the issue which led to an agreement, there was a breach of agreement on the respondent’s side. The family brought the case to the court to collect all the pictures the BPL had and to prevent more pictures from been published. During the court hearing, the claimant presented their evidence and claimed that taking the pictures was a breach of confidence and invasion of privacy under article 8 of the ECHR and Data…

achievements. Although the feudal system’s decline is still controversial amongst historians, most believe that the Feudal system in Europe had completely dissolved by the the year 1500 CE The collapse of the feudal system was caused by the changes European society due to structural changes in infrastructure, the black plague, the conflicts…

Britain, France, The Soviet Union, and the United States. After the death of Adolf Hitler and the end of World War II, the allied forces needed to react to this horrific tragedy. As a reaction to the Holocaust, the allied forces sought a way to receive justice for the innocent millions who had lost their lives in a tragic way. In order to achieve this, the allied forces created the Nuremberg trials. The Nuremberg trials…

In 1991 the Canadian Federal Government introduced the First Nations Policing Program as an effort to help with the overrepresentation of Aboriginals in the Canadian Justice System. This program allows the establishment of Aboriginal administered police services in Canada on Aboriginal territories. The Aboriginal police are funded by Public Safety Canada. Public Safety Canada mentions that while Aboriginals face much higher crime rates do to their socio-economic status, poorer education and…

the ultimate punishment serves as a greater deterrence to people than life in prison. 3) Justice is better served. A fundamental tenant of the justice system is that the punishment should fit the crime. 4) Use as a plea bargaining chip. Without the use of plea bargains, the court system would grind to a halt. A prosecutor can use the threat of the death penalty in negotiations in order to save the courts resources. 5) Without the threat of death, prisoners already serving life sentences…

against the Registrar General as a result of his refusal. Procedural Posture The case was first heard in 2002 in the High Court. The Court found against Ms Foy. Ms Foy was in the process of appealing this decision to the Supreme Court when there was significant developments that could affect the case. Firstly the Civil Registration Act of 2004 came into effect, secondly the European Convention on Human Rights…

government, not influenced by party politics. In Chief Justice John Robert’s nomination speech, he famously said ‘The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ball game to see the umpire.’ In fact, judges often make decisions that go against their own political opinions simply because they are upholding laws or precedents that oppose them. For example, Justice Kennedy wrote of Texas v Johnson ‘The hard…

1. What are the factors that motivated United Kingdom exit European Union? What is unique about the United Kingdom from other members of the European Union? (Yixiao Xu) 1. Cressey, Daniel, and Alison Abbott. "Researchers reeling as UK votes to leave EU." Nature, 2016..doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20153. According to Nature, most scientists were against the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. However, 52% of British people sill voted to leave. To analyze this outcome, we have to…

MODERN DAY WITCH HUNTS I choose to write about modern day witch hunt because I wanted to learn more about it. I never knew what a witch hunt was but I did research and found out its when they search for people accused of witch hunt and is persecuted when found. And this all started because Salem witch trails was a series of hearings and…