Consider the criminal liability of the defendant in the situation below and consider the defence of insanity to the offences that you find he has committed. Johnson could be held liable for Section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. This is unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm or malicious wounding with intent to cause some harm. There must be a break in the continuity of the skin for a D to be held liable for malicious wounding (JCC v Eisenhower). GBH was described as “serious”
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To what extent is it justifiable to deviate from fundamentals principles of criminal Law by creating driving offences of strict liability in the interests of maintaining road safety ? Introduction : Road Safety Act 2006 After creating two more offences under the Road Sagety Act 2006 of causing death by careless driving and causing death by driving uninsured‚ disqualified or uninsured‚ the Government justified those new driving offences by saying that ‘[t]he whole purpose of such legislation
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Case 10 Home Depot Implements Stakeholder Orientation 1. On the basis of Home Depot’s response to environmental issues‚ describe the attributes (power‚ legitimacy‚ urgency) of this stakeholder. Assess the company’s strategy and performance with environmental and employee stakeholders. Using the Reactive Defensive-Accommodative-Proactive Scale‚ the company can be assessed for their strategy and performance with environmental and employee stakeholders. In 1990’s‚ the people in the community
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Critically evaluate‚ in relation to the common law duty of care‚ the liability of employers for psychiatric illnesses suffered by employees and arising as the result of employees being made to work under stressful conditions: Business corporations are instituted for the primary purpose of economic gain. Often‚ as the pressure to show impressive profits in each financial quarter increases‚ it is the workforce who are put under undue stress. Ranging from unreasonably high productivity standards
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Esperanza describes how her family came to live at the house on Mango Street. She‚ her parents‚ her brothers‚ Carlos and Kiki‚ and her sister‚ Nenny‚ moved to Mango Street when the pipes broke in their previous apartment and the landlord refused to fix them. Before they moved into the house on Mango Street‚ the family moved around a lot. The family had dreamed of a white house with lots of space and bathrooms‚ but the house on Mango Street has only one bedroom and one bathroom. Esperanza notes that
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A master budget is very important in large corporations. It is the main reason for running a business effectively. I have a budget at home that is very detailed and if I do not follow it exactly‚ then I run into a lot of problems. I know that it is similar to a business budget but definitely not as involved. A master budget contains all the other budgets in a business. A budget is a major resource to a company because it gives a detailed overview of the finances of the company. The budget
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However it could be argued that before Andy attacked Bilal‚ Andy caused Bilal to fear being attacked which comes under Section 39 Offences against the Person Act 1861 so could be charged with this offence as well as S.18. Andy will face criminal liability for assault contrary to S39 Criminal Justice Act 1998. R v Logdon confirms that Andy must through his own actions or words cause Bilal to fear that unlawful force will be immediately used against him. This can be actions such as showing the gun in
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Elements of Negligence 6 3.10 Duty of Care 6 3.20 Breach of Duty of Care 7 3.30 Causation 7 3.40 Remoteness of Damages 7 4.00 Statutory changes to Common Law Negligence (in NSW) 8 5.00 Development of negligence in Australia following
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> UNDERSTAND QUICKLY > REVISE EFFECTIVELY > TAKE EXAMS WITH CONFIDENCE CRIMINAL LAW EMILY FINCH AND STEFAN FAFINSKI CRIMINAL LAW Stefan Fafinski‚ University of Leeds Emily Finch‚ University of East Anglia Table of cases and statutes Cases Able [1984] QB 795 Adomako [1995] 1 AC 171 AG for Jersey v. Holley [2005] 3 AU ER 371 A–G for NI v. Gallagher [1963] AC 349 A–G Ref No 3 of 1994 [1998] AC 245 A–G’s Reference (No. 2 of 1983) [1984] QB 456 Ahuwalia [1992] 4 AUER 889 Allen [1985] AC
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removed. This factual test for causation was accepted in the case of International Shipping Co (Pty) Ltd v Bentley. In the case of X‚ if the fight between X and Y
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