For example, several components of English common law were taken into account when building the framework of our government, the most important of which was the Magna Carta, written in the Middle Ages. The Magna Carta introduced two crucial ideas - the idea of equality under the law and the right to a fair trial by jury. The document explicitly says, “to no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay…
The Crown had appealed the case on a question of law alone. The Ontario Supreme Court granted the appeal. The Court understood that it had the task of looking into the correctness of both this decision and the decision of R. V. Dix. In the end, both decisions were found to have been wrongfully decided. The Court had admitted that the decision in R. V. Dix was in fact wrong, and it did not comply with the laws and rules of the common law. The court also stated that people should not be able to…
For an individual to be blameworthy and criminally responsible for their actions, the accused person must have committed the actus reus and the mens rea. In the case of the accused pleading Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder (NCRMD), the court focuses on whether the accused had the mens rea while committing the alleged offence (Verdun-Jones, 2015). If the accused person did not know what he or she was doing was wrong, or did not appreciate the conduct or omission, the…
where there are (virtually or literally) no poor, no class struggles, no crimes, etc. More’s Utopia, as described through the recollection of the landless traveler/philosopher Raphael Hythloday, achieves these ends primarily through its commonplace “laws,” i.e., its distributed model of property. Jonathan Swift’s scathing satire “A Modest Proposal…” sardonically depicts a society where the solution to poverty and to the struggle of the poor lies in the resale and culinary value of the poor’s…
the spotlight, the problems surrounding the idea of stand-your-ground laws. Following Florida v. Zimmerman, the then Attorney General Eric Holder would criticize stand-your-ground laws as “senselessly expand[ing] the concept of self-defense and sow[ing] dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods”. (Holder 2013) The problems that Attorney General Holder and others have found in stand-your-ground laws stems from the fact that laws…
Common Law legal tradition, which is one of the four major families of law (Dammer and Albanese, 2014, p. 42). It should be noted that most legal traditions originated from the type of religion practiced in the region or country. Originally Common Law originated from when William the Conqueror captured England and became its King. He faced difficulty trying to rule his subjects as he was French, and due to some other anticipated obstacles when conquering a country. However, Common Law was…
initiatives and debates for judicial diversity are critical features of various common law jurisdictions. The country faces gender and ethnicity diversity as the major dimension of inclusiveness in the judicial system. Critics have raised general arguments in rationalizing judicial diversity as well as the essence of having judicial appointments and procedures adhering to the requirements of equal opportunity laws and equality. Diverse compunctions of the judiciary have higher capacitates of…
According to Statement of Auditing 100, these opinions are not guarantee, which means that auditors through the best knowledge and experiences to make judgments about the financial statements. It is reasonable to have negligence mistakes. Under the Tort Law, profession has liability when it provides “false information” to others. In the Blue Bell case, Blue Bell blamed PPM for offering the combined statements instead of consolidated financial statements, which did not “’present fairly’ an…
New Poor Law System established in 1834 was outlined and evaluated fundamentally on how it works. It outlined the causes of poverty, some historical backgrounds, Chadwick and the development of the New Poor Law, diseases & poverty and the Laissez Faire ideology. The outlines also include the underserving and deserving, how effective the workhouse and how the social problems were addressed. In 1832, the government setup an agreement for the Royal Commission to explore the work of the Poor Law and…
Correlation isn't Causation To begin let us define correlation and causation. The correlation- Causation fallacy is the error of assuming that because one thing is associated with another, it must cause the other. The reason why its so important for people to understand the difference is because just because two things are a related to one another ( Correlation ) doesn't mean that one thing influence the outcome of the other( Causation ). For example, kids who get an allowance are more…