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This scenario involves two parties, David and Theresa, in which Theresa is a potential Defendant. She is to be advised regarding two legal issues: whether she has a potential criminal liability for blackmail by threatening David into giving her the money she believes she is owed, and whether Theresa has a potential criminal liability for theft by taking the letter from David’s home. With regards to the issue of potential criminal liability for blackmail by threatening David when demanding the money that she believed she was owed, the relevant statutory law is Section 21 of the Theft Act 1968, which states that the criminal offence of blackmail consists of making an unwarranted demand with menaces, which is the actus reus, with a view to making…

S.E.2d 735 (1971); Kanawha Banking and Trust Co. v. Gilbert, 131 W.Va. 88, 46 S.E.2d 225 (1947). 12. In this case, Defendant claims that he understood from oral discussions occurring contemporaneously with the execution of the Recruitment Agreement that Plaintiff intended to exempt his Beckley income from the calculation of “Cash Collections” and that a written addendum would follow setting forth this understanding. 13. However, the Court hereby concludes that no parol evidence of any such…

Facts Case One: Bhasin v Hrynew, 2014 SCC 71, [2014] 3 SCR 494 (CanLII). The appellant for the case in front of the Supreme Court was Harish Bhasin. Bhasin ran his company under the name Bhasin and Associates. The plaintiff had legal representation in the form of solicitors McCarthy Tétrault. The respondents in this case were Larry Hrynew and Heritage Education Funds Inc., formerly known as Canadian American Financial Corp (to be referred to as Can – Am). The representation for the…

unlawful act manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter. In establishing whether Rosa’s criminal liability is murder or manslaughter both impose a term of imprisonment decided by the judge. As stated above Lord…

To date however, only the reforms contained in Inchoate Liability for Assisting and Encouraging Crime have been enacted. It is unsurprising that the Government has not taken any action to date to implement any reform. In 2012, the Government responded to the committees report, Kenneth Clarke, the former Secretary of State for Justice stated that any reform would not be undertaken in the life time of the current Parliament. Thus, whether Parliament would modify their decision during this current…

One can agree that it is legal for 17 year-old teenagers to sign a contract, though it will not be enforceable unless one has parental agreement. The real question becomes how to distinguish one of validity and voidability. In regards to validity, depending on the age of the child, the signed contract can be invalid because of the age and or consent. Nonetheless, the important point in minors signing contracts is the voidability of the instrument. For the minor has the right to enforce a…

Gould’s initial letter seeking legal advice and representation is protected by the aforementioned attorney-client privilege. Here, because Mr. Gould has not waived his right to the privilege, the information revealed in his initial correspondence with this firm cannot be used against him, including the information that he plans to lie to the Committee about. N.Y. C.P.L.R.(a)(1) (McKinney 2016). The best that this firm could do would be to suggest that Mr. Gould amend his application to the bar…

Brown will likely prevail in establishing that Mrs. Sullivan “owned” the dog as defined under the Illinois Animal Control Act (the Act), and is thus liable for damages for the injuries Brown sustained. The Act defines an “owner” as “any person having a right of property in a dog…or who keeps or harbors a dog…or who has it in his care, or acts as its custodian”. 510 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 5/2.16 (LexisNexis, Lexis Advance through P.A. 99-608, except for portions of P.A. 99-576, P.A. 99-585, and…

Remand custody, or pre-trial detention cases have been vastly increasing over the last ten years. Individuals who have not been sentenced yet are in remand custody, which is when an individual is in custody but awaiting their trail or sentence (Griffiths, 2014, p.179). Previously inmates had the larger number in prisons; however, the remand population has climbed and on most cases has outnumbered convicted inmates (Weinrath, 2009, p.355). Through the Justice of the Peace or a judge, individuals…

deliberately withhold evidence of a person’s innocence. It is this egregious misconduct which leads to the conviction of innocent people. What does the prosecutor have to gain by this misconduct? Unfortunately, all too often prosecutors fall under the spell of conviction-seeking no matter what. They become focused on conviction rates. They forgot that their judicial duties are to guard the rights of the accused and protect the innocent. Prosecutorial misconduct has become a nationwide problem.…