Judicial remedies

When people learn that someone has been to prison, they normally assume that the person is immoral, but what if the law that had been broken was immoral? Ideally, a law’s purpose is to keep order and ensure the rights of citizens, but at what point does that law stop protecting the rights of individuals and start being punitive for punishment’s sake? One such group on the receiving end of some of these laws is women. While granting equal rights to women may seem like the obvious choice, many…

The word Salem once meant peace in Hebrew, and meant complete peace in Biblical times. Now it is associated with the horrifying events of killing hundreds of innocent people. The Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts were a mockery of justice. as innocent men and women were condemned to death. In the 1630s, the Puritans from Europe sailed to the New World, what is now the United States of America. The Puritans believed that it was their task to create a utopian theocracy. As time…

it would seem like this privilege should not be so, but the vagueness of the constitution allows this to be possible and is like a un seen weapon for the executive branch being the legislative has a little more power than its counterpart and the judicial is there in a way of just to watch the two so that way they would not break any constitutional laws or natural rights for the people. Which in in return brings us back to the issue of should our commander in chief be able to keep information…

Question one of this essay will seek to show how legislation and morality are not only seen as a false dichotomy, but essential for social cohesion. This will be further expanded to show procedural difference between private and public law with the individual. Question two will seek to show the legal relationship between the citizen and the state through different legal systems. Those systems being statutory and civil legislation with accountability under a duty of care. Laws are sets of…

Affirmative Action on Education Affirmative action was created to help those races who have been historically suffering under segregation and domination to obtain representation in society and to balance the income disparity (Hasan, Zoya vii). Affirmative action is the special tool box that the government uses to accelerate the progress of the position of groups that have difficulty because of discrimination. The ongoing action has caused lots of problem benefiting minorities while majorities…

005594572 Questions for Arbitration Intro to Law: Contracts 1.a. False. From the opinions presented, it appears that Shelley will lose. Based on the opinions presented, let’s take a lot at the opposing opinions first so we can try to identify who is the majority and who is the dissenting, shall we? the opinions between 4 of the judges so far appear evenly divided, with 2, judges Arnold and burns, saying that the decision of the lower courts should be upheld, and 2, judges Curt and Dan,…

The case deals with delict, part of the law of obligations. Although delict deals with wrongdoings it is not part of criminal law but civil law (Scottish Courts and Tribunals, 2016), sourced from common law such as Judicial Precedent, “Donoghue v Stevenson, 1932” (Wylie and Crossan 2010:305). Therefore, in cases involving delict, burden of proof is judged on the balance of probability. The procedure for civil cases in Scottish courts starts at a Sherriff Court, if appealed goes to the Court of…

In this essay, I will address the following cases, Donoghue v Stevenson, Anns v Merton, Ward v McMaster and Glencar v Mayo in detail along with other relevant cases. I will show how the courts progressed from deciding that proximity in Donoghue v Stevenson decides whether a duty of care exists to deciding that policy over proximity in Glencar dictates whether a duty of care exists, I will address how each case had a significant role to play in how the Glencar judgement was reached. “In most…

Causal Stories The article “Desperate Families Driven to Black Market Insulin” appeared to be written from the perspective of a person who wanted to share the injustice experienced by one particular family in an effort to highlight the systemic issues of medical and insurance companies. Using an idea from Stone (1989), the political function at play was to challenge the systems that create barriers to medication access, assign responsibility to those systems, and potentially make alliances…

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they can grow up in peace." --Kofi Annan The essence of the Indian culture lies in its age long prevailing tradition of the joint family system. However, in the present times, the decline of this traditional Institution and its subordination to nuclear family…