Special Guardianship Order (SGO)

Special Guardianship Order (SGO) was set out with the aim to provide “an alternative legal status for children that offered greater security than long – term fostering but without the absolute legal severance from the birth family that stems from an adoption order”. (DFE, Special Guardianship Guidance 2005: 3). This critique on Government Consultation- Special … Read more

Closed Material Procedures (CMP)

The principle of natural justice takes into account of procedural fairness and it ensures that the decision maker reaches a fair decision. It maintains procedural fairness in order to protect the right of individuals and also to promote public confidence. The idea of fairness expressed in the divergent strands of natural justice have to be … Read more

International law and terrorism

Introduction Spain, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and now also Belgium and France are one of the countries who are victims of horrifying terrorist attacks. Terrorism used to be sporadic, however, during the years 2013-2016, terrorist attacks evolved into systematic attacks. Terrorism is not only a national crime, but also, a crime of international concern, … Read more

How do Stare Decisis and Judicial Precedent affect the development of law?

Introduction The aim of this essay is to discuss how Stare Decisis and Judicial Precedent affect the development of law, do they hinder the development or not. Judicial Precedent is the process where the judges follow the cases with similar facts that has been previously decided. The doctrine of judicial precedent involves an application of … Read more

Body Cameras and Law Enforcement

Issue Should police/patrol officers be federally mandated to wear body cameras to record citizen contacts? Facts In today’s world of technological advancement, there has been an increase in the ways technology can be used to help people on a daily basis. New technologies have led to the development of police-worn body cameras, which is a … Read more

Libel

This work is engaged in a brief analysis of libel, taking into account the descriminalizadoras trends that are announced in Europe. These trends underpin this claim on the lookout for “social responsibility” of the media and the importance it has for the very survival of democratic and plural societies, the existence of a public’s right … Read more

Agency theory

The agency theory is often connoted as he who acts through another, acts for himself…’.qui facit per alium, facit per se’. The expression can be described as a bilateral onerous, consensual contract whereby one party, the principal, authorizes another, the agent, to execute business on his behalf. There are essentially 3 parties involved in the … Read more

Advantages and disadvantages of the doctrine of binding precedent

Essay topic: Critically evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the doctrine of binding precedent in English courts. In the English legal system in the United Kingdom, according to the Act of Settlement 1700, “judges should theoretically make their decisions based purely on the logical deductions of precedent, uninfluenced by political or career considerations.” Back to … Read more

EU Directive and member state liability

EXPLAIN THE PRINCIPLES OF DIRECT, INDIRECT AND INCIDENTAL EFFECT OF EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE AND MEMBER STATE LIABILITY AND CRITICALLY CONSIDER WHY THE COURT OF JUSTICE FELT IT NECESSARY TO DEVELOP THESE PRINCIPLES. The principles of direct effect on European Union resulting from the court of justice limit its scope only to those supplies which were … Read more

Copyright, trademark, statutory misrepresentation or passing off

In this country [Australia], the prospective plaintiff must try to found their action in copyright, trademark, statutory misrepresentation or passing off. The fame of an athlete is commercially valuable when attached to a product or an event. Association of aspects of the top sportsperson’s ‘personality’ ‘ his photographic image, for example, increase the attractiveness of … Read more

Essay notes: Evidence, why necessary, types, role of evidence

Sir Bentham, eminent English Jurist, defines “The evidence is any matter of fact, the effect or tendency of which is, to produce in the mind a persuasion, affirmative or dis-affirmative of the existence of some other matter of fact.” Word “evidence” is derived from Latin word “evidens” or “evidere”, which means to show clearly; to … Read more

Psychiatric injuries

Purpose The issues that lie here, and I will be looking in greater detail, are the primary and secondary victims that have to be established before any claim for damages can be done. Primary victims are simpler to distinguish in comparison to secondary victims. The fine line appears more towards the secondary victims when trying … Read more

Public procurement contracts

European Regional Policy in Romania: Facts and Recommendations Abstract: The scientific approach is to identify and evaluate regional development policy implementation mechanisms in Romania, the evolution of regional development policy, the degree of achievement of indicators undertaken and lessons learned. This paper aims to introduce theoretical and practical aspects less known, the application of models … Read more

Case analysis

This case is the outcome of the appeal from a decision pronounced by the Court of Appeal. Case essentially involves a person named Major Rowlandson who in 1925 took out 5 policies on his own life with the company called Royal Insurance Com. Ltd for the sum amounting to 50,000. The Terms & Condition of each policy contained a clause which says. Since 1925 he was maintaining all these five policies and was paying the premium of around 1800 per annum.

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