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Competent Adjudication, Impact of Mediation

The fact is that, the formal process s generally regulated by the formal policies and requirements, nevertheless, when the participants of this process have an opportunity to change the formal environment for informal, the formal [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 530

Crime and Delinquency, Eric Smith’s Case

Thus the psychological problems that smith developed were due to the experiences he had gone through the courtesy of his bright red hair, freckles, and speech problems.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1359

Miranda v. Arizona: Case Brief

Although the court overturned the case because of the nullification of the evidence, later on, since he the court tried him using the real witnesses' evidence whereby the court found him guilty hence, convicted him [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Investigation
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 608

Administrative Law: Termination of Commercial Pilots Licenses

The assignment will evaluate on whether a ruling which was done to automatically terminate licenses of commercial pilots at the age of 60 if it denied them their opportunity to be heard and the appropriate [...]
  • Subjects: Administrative Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

Criminal Law: A Young’s Case

The action of Young clearly gives a picture that he had arranged and executed a preparation to steal from the bank.
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Police Search and Law Procedure

Although they fled from the place, the police could reach them with the help of the evidence. According to the Fourth Amendment, the authority should have a warrant if they have to arrest a person [...]
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 824

Criminal Law: U.S. v. Peterson

Benny Peterson, the defendant, came out of his house to find that Charles Keitt, the deceased, and two friends in the back of Peterson's house stealing the windshield wipers from the defendant's wrecked car.
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 511

Mapp v. Ohio, 367 US 643 (1961): A Case Study

In addition, although her attorney disqualified the conviction on grounds that, the officers had obtained the evidence against her consent, the court effected the conviction on argument that the officers never took the materials forcefully [...]
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 614

Vicarious Liability and Corporate Criminal Liability

For example, if an employee in a health care organization gives wrong prescription to a patient and causes death, the conduct would be regarded criminal if the employee had the intention of causing harm to [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 744

Tort Law: EMTALA

A liability on the part of the hospital was possible after amputating the first and second wrist because according to EMTALA, there is a need for screening of the emergency medical condition.
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 545

White-Collar Crimes: Prevention and Fight

The article gives the effects of white collar crimes in different areas of the economy. This article discusses white collar crimes in the perspective of the court.
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 716

Intellectual Property Valuation Methods

The currently available valuation methods of Intellectual Property can be grouped into three categories, which are the market approach, the cost approach and the income approach.
  • Subjects: Intellectual Property
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

The Case of Commonwealth v. Pestinikas

In addition, considering contractual terms, the law had imposed on the two legal duties of taking care Kly, hence there had to be liable of the offense.
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 704

Concepts of U.S. V. Watson, 423 US 411

Later on, the appeal court reversed the conviction on grounds that, the officers had violated the respondent's rights by conducting an un-warranted arrest and search, hence all the evidence the officers collected was null.
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 653

The Role of the Federal Trade Commission

IPAMG is a firm that is charged with the role of passing information about financial planning and investment. This is unfair competition and it lead to a penalty for the IPAMG.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 635

Services by Medicare or Medicaid

The safe harbour protects revenues from patron hospital to cooperative hospital groups to support the cooperative hospital groups running expenses and payments from cooperative hospital groups to a patron hospital that are necessary in accordance [...]
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 583

Medical Record Retention Law

In the absence of certain state requirements for record retention, the provider ought to keep the information for a specific period.
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 633

Answering the Complaint of the Criminal Case

According to the law, the representative of the deceased person is entitled to request compensation for the damages, which have been afflicted upon him or her.
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 550

What Is a Crime? Is It Possible to Prevent Crime?

Lots of writers have already tried to introduce a more or less clear explanations of crime, define its nature, clear up what anti-social behavior means, and find out the types of crime; with the help [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1129

Reforms to Ease Overcrowding in US Prisons

This increase necessitated the need for reforms to the correctional system; either reforms that would provide alternatives to the traditional long-term imprisonment, or government spending to the tune of billions of dollars in construction of [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3285

Intellectual Property Law: Definition

The biggest challenge for them will be to prove to the court that the idea was actually conceived by them and that what the journalist and the other company are developing on is an idea [...]
  • Subjects: Intellectual Property
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3865

Controversial Insanity Defense Assessment

The insanity defense is dependent on assessments carried out by forensic expertise who confirms that the suspect was not able to differentiate between the correct and incorrect thing to do during the time of the [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

“Most Important Thing Is Money Ltd”: Vaccination Development

Thus, necessary powers have been vested with the Secretary of State for Health in England, through the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisation to enforce such preventive steps, through necessary programs that [...]
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 606

Privilege Against Self-Incrimination

According to the Common law regulations, legal professional privilege is aimed to protect all types of communications observed between the client and legal professional advisor on the basis of client's permission to be disclosed; it [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3195

Adverse Effects of Solitary Confinement

The duration of the segregation varies, depending on the aims and intentions of the administration in carrying out the procedure. This notwithstanding, the negative effects of this practice on the prisoner make it a case [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3026

Capitol Records, Inc. v. Sharon Villarreal

SHARON VILLARREAL, Defendant The history of the case plaintiff had copied music and was taken to court and was sued. The defendant by searching and copying music is illegal and court was determined whether copying [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1336

Interrogation Techniques in the Criminal Procedure

The concept of lying is the most worrying one in the process of interrogation, since the facts on which the investigation may be based have to be well-checked and grounded otherwise they will be useless [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 657

Substance Abuse and America’s Prison Population

The Juvenile program offers an opportunity for the community to prevent the young people stay away from criminal behavior and efficiently rehabilitate the young wrongdoers.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 929

Public Companies and Securities Regulation

The CA 2006 preserves the primacy of the main goal of companies namely the maximisation of profits for the advantageous of the company shareholders.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 16
  • Words: 4340

Value of the Business and Corporate Law

A statutory standard may require all the corporations to separate at all times the chairman and the chief executive officer, to give more power to the share orders, for example in the Delaware's chartered corporations, [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 987

Comparative Commercial Law in the US and Saudi Arabia

Islamic law can be categorized into two portions; the Shari'a which is made up of the legal verses of the Koran and the Sunna; and the fiqh which is the interpretation of these verses that [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2514

Better Treatment for Mentally Ill Prisoners

The argument would be in favor of the ideal that there are enough reasons and benefits for the better funding, better treatments, and for programs after release of the mentally ill prisoners.
  • Subjects: Law Ethics
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2045

Narcotics Investigations and Drug Enforcement

It may therefore be necessary for such an officer to first prove that this individual knew the whereabouts of the drug and that he/ she could access the drug.
  • Subjects: Criminal Investigation
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3609

Case Assessment in Investigation Guidebook

The details of the criminal profiler such as the crime scene state, the type of weapons used, and the words of the victim and other factors like geographic crime patterns and the offender lives.
  • Subjects: Criminal Investigation
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1545

Forensic Accounting: Healthsouth Healthcare Providers

This paper discusses the concept of forensic accounting and analyses the case of Healthsouth healthcare providers in the light of the use of forensic accounting to unravel and prosecute the case.
  • Subjects: Criminal Investigation
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1377

Legalization vs. Criminalization

If one despises drug use, it is not plausible to assume that such an opinion will change upon legalization of the drugs.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2279

Contemporary Criminology and Criminal Justice Theory

The model of a political society in which law restrains and guides the implementation of power by rulers dates from the early stages of systematic thought in the Western world.
  • Subjects: Crime Theories
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1861

The Introduction of the New British Supreme Court

The introduction of the new British Supreme Court has involved different constitutional implications, such as changing the role of the Lord Chancellor and creating a position of President of the Court of England and Wales; [...]
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1197

Post Conviction DNA Testing

The DNA was first presented as evidence in court in the year 1986 in the USA, and in the subsequent years it presented serious challenges in the court rooms, presently it is been accepted in [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Investigation
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1453

Historic Criminal Case: Restoring Social Order

A criminal case involves the breaking of a law that governs the whole state unlike the civil case where the law broken is only applicable to the subjects in the conflict.
  • Subjects: Crime Theories
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2442

Different Causes of Legal Action

The students try to get into the house; they attempt to climb over a wooden, being unaware that the fence is on the verge of collapsing.
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1116

Environmental Law: Case Analysis

It was within his rights to greet and talk to whoever person was invited to the party. It is the responsibility of every person that is driving to obey traffic rules.
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1185

Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading 2008

This paper assesses the extent to which the implementation of the requirements of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive by Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 has resulted in the general duty for fair trade.[3] [...]
  • Subjects: Consumer Law
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2814

The Case Study of Knarles: Contract

Chem who is a new customer to the business entered into a contract with Barkley on the belief that he is in the position of authority.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2035

Agency Termination and Process of Repossession

The termination of the agency is to be correctly fulfilled for the employer to protect his liability from the customers and employees; the termination process covers the following steps: mutual agreement the parties are to [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 572

Avoiding & Settling Disputes Under Sales Contract Law

The major peculiarity of this problem lies in the following: the seller of the car officially disclaimed any liability for the injuries and repair costs caused by defects in the vehicle.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

International White-Collar Crime

Globalization and the harmonization of the European Community, two logical outcomes of the belief in free markets and value theory Adam Smith espoused in The Wealth of Nations, has also eased of movement of humans, [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 627

Medical Malpractice Actions in Alaska and Montana

In comparison, Alaska sets a limit of two years from the date the person discovers or should have discovered the existence of the cause of action, for the commencement of medical malpractice actions.
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 665

Oral Contracts in the US

But contrary to the oral contract, the voyage took in excess of 22 hours to deliver the oysters, occasioning great loss to the plaintiff and death to the oysters.
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1165

Physician Assisted Suicide – State Laws

This authorization may be given by the family members to the medical personnel irrespective of the fact that whether the death is imminent or not within the stipulated period of one year. In contrast to [...]
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 600

Vicarious Liability: Term Definition

The decision of the trial court went in favor of the hospital and the court dismissed the claims of Regina Sampson against the hospital.
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Immigration and Refugee Law in New Zealand

Consequently, the refugee policy comes about due to the flow of obligations courtesy of the 1960 UNHCR Convention, that is to say, the provision of refugees' protection.
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3180

Brain Links With Aggression and Criminal Violence

These tendencies are repressed because of a long period of socialization that comes as a result of the fact that the major tendencies that are present in society remain to be curbed.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1393

The New York State Consumer Protection Board

They go on in stating that it is not the credit crunch or the subprime meltdown crisis that developed out of the reach of the law and thus made it necessary for it to be [...]
  • Subjects: Consumer Law
  • Pages: 25
  • Words: 6133

Community Cohesiveness and Incidence of Crime

A high rate of crime in the UK, relative to other nations in the European Union, compels defensive reactions from the Home Office but forces a re-examination as well of what afflicts community crime prevention [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2022

Changes into the Copyright Law

In more detail, the amendments offered by the Copyright Office in the document titled Recordation of Notices of Termination of Transfers and Licenses; clarifications concern mainly the order of filing notices of termination, the mailing [...]
  • Subjects: Intellectual Property
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 580

The Creation of the Uniform Law

Initially, the dispute over the uniformity of laws regulating IP relations has been the result of the controversy that aroused from the different rights that the inventors or patent owners could have in various countries. [...]
  • Subjects: Intellectual Property
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 542

Gambling: Debate Against the Legislation of Gambling

More significantly, the Australian government has so far adopted a conciliatory and indulgent attitude towards most kinds of gambling, which has been the main reason for the rampant growth and proliferation of both forms of [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1189

International Comparative Criminology

To evaluate the effects of the judicial treatment of human rights violations on the democratic process, it is necessary to consider whether, in spite of the covert amnesty of the due obedience law passed during [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1316

Contemporary Biosocial Criminology

Biosocial criminology is dynamic in that it explains human behavior in the different paths of development. To them crime was a way of showing that they are in control.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 883

Democratic Principle: The Constitution of the US

The two major democratic principles are closely interrelated and the parties involved into them can actually change places from time to time: the minority has the right to become the majority, thus the latter becomes [...]
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 624

Itemized Deductions. Financial Research

The objective of this system is to help the government in the collection of revenue from the public. The investment income is tax deductible only to a limit of the individual's net income from the [...]
  • Subjects: Taxation Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1196

The Philosophy of Sentencing in the USA

O'Shea states the following fact in his research: "The length of the prison term depends upon multiple factors including the severity and type of the crime, state and/or federal sentencing guidelines, the convicted person's criminal [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 551

Discussion of The Right to File a Lawsuit

My father and my friend's mother agreed that the right to file lawsuits can be seen as a protection, and a "representation of freedom", explaining that without such right we would not have been among [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 967

Jurisdiction in the Legislative System

To begin with, it is necessary to mention that the issues of jurisdiction and venue in the legislative system are regarded to be closely linked with each other, and define the basis of the legislation [...]
  • Subjects: Law Practice Management
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1047

Tort Law: Redress of the Costs Incurred

Consequently, there arises a burning issue in the legal practice concerning the questions of who should bear the responsibility for causing the harm, what kind of responsibility should be imposed on the guilty party and [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1313

Prison Reforms and Alternatives

The fact is that, there are several ways of the deprivation of freedom, and each may be differentiated with the level of monitoring and the level of deprivation of freedom.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 2642

Criminal Law: Sociopathic Offenders

His type of offenders report committing a series of crimes and have a very outstanding characteristic in society; politically commanding a lot of attention because of the excessive number of crimes they commit; and psychologically [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 629

Land Acquisition in the Parramatta City Council Cases

In addition to that, he stated that the transfer of the properties to the developer was conducted with the intention of gaining monetary benefit, which can be called a resaleiii.
  • Subjects: Administrative Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 957

Tort Law: Lawsuit Against the Church

That the actions of the church made the society to have a negative attitude towards the parents. The parents in this case can be said to be the legal owners of the child.
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 851

Illegal Labor in the United States

The contract is the document, where employers and employees state the conditions under which they are doing to continue their further business relations.
  • Subjects: Labor Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 543

Prison Gangs’ Evolution and Solutions to Them

Prison gangs develop in prison environments and sore of increase in disturbances in prison such as that experienced in the United States in the early 1990s may point to more prison gang activity, according to [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1006

Property Law and Contracts: Edwards and Landry Case

This is why it is necessary to prove that Landry still has the right to ask Edwards to move the storage shed to his backyard and be responsible for all losses."Contract law lays down rules [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 745

Crime Factors & Levels in South Africa vs. Canada

Developed and developing countries have different level of crime and crime control from the developing countries. This crime is concentrated in the urban of Ontario, British Columbia and other areas like Quebec.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2039

Business Law Violation: Jettison and Big Ben Inc.

The matter of this case is the inability of the latter company to pay its debt to the former one. The point is that offering great conditions of employment for the beginner, Big Bucks, Inc.needs [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 538

Community Service as a Form of Correction

Of these alternatives, community service has been one of the most employed and therefore opened a room for debates with the proponents feeling that the option is a remedy to all the prison problems while [...]
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  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2411

Age-Crime Relationships and Motivations

Of the three major factors outlined by basis theory, opportunities availability is the most determinant factor of crime commission among the youths as lack of jobs makes them engage in criminal activities in order to [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1895

Contract Law: Promissory Estoppel and Part Payment

In the case of promissory estoppel, consideration has centered on the notion of exchange or bargain as a reasonable basis for the elucidation of what is meant by promissory estoppel in payment of consideration under [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 910

Fingerprint Detection Techniques of Personal Identification

Research areas include a generalized approach to the detection and enhancement of fingerprints and the role of optical techniques. If fingerprints have been obtained through either chemical or physical processes, they are enhanced by appropriate [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1578

Processing the Crime Scene: Tools and Techniques

Processing the crime scene is one of the main parts of the investigation process and policy management. Legal statutes in many communities and states have even been extended to behavior that is widely believed to [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

Signing the Contracts, Being Not in a Sober Mind

According to the Plaintiff, the condition of Kean at the time of the procurement was not fit. It has been mentioned in the case that the plaintiff was under influence of intoxicating liquor at the [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1649

Miranda v. Arizona: Constitutional Safeguards

In deciding to talk to the police it can be construed that Charles decided to waive his constitutional rights including that to remain silent, as well as that to have counsel being present.
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 603

Freschco & Crankit Legal Case and Contract Breach

It is important to note that Crankit was the cause of all the damages and losses incurred by the client due to the mistakes that were committed in the services that were rendered.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 675

Statutory Interpretation Methods Used by the Courts

The first of the methods is the so-called Golden Rule used in the majority of cases to dissolve the ambiguity of the words used in statutes or any other documented or oral pieces of information [...]
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 1462

Human Rights Act 1998 in British Legal System

The safeguard of British liberty is in the good sense of the people and in the system of representative and responsible government which has been evolved".[The Business of Judging] Such an approach isolated British constitutional [...]
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

Adversary System of Law Necessity to Produce Just Results

Among the reasons why it is necessary for the production of just results is the use of judges who present issues in a meaningful manner, the freedom given to opposing parties to present their issues [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 677

Role of Private International Law in E-Commerce

Additionally, it has been hoped that private international law is the best means to alleviate complex issues in disputes such as those involving the use of the Internet.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2564

Judicial Activism in Australia

This is where the judicial activism came about whereby even if it is not the duty of the judges to make a law, they can use the law to fit in a new situation.
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1494

Civil Procedures in New Zealand

However, under adversarial systems, the Courts, and more specifically the judges, act upon the evidence and arguments put forth by the attorneys of the contestants "Adversary theory holds that requiring each side to develop and [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3146

Examples of Court Cases Involving Alcohol

On the day the deed was executed, the plaintiff was driven in an automobile from his farm to Reno, Nevada for the purpose of the plaintiff and defendant being married in said city.
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 5350

Cases Brief on Fire Scene Investigation

In the process, the Supreme Court redefined administrative searches as a concept that allows fire investigators to enter a fire scene without a judge-issued warrant only for the purpose of determining the cause and origin [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1869

The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination

The privilege against self-incrimination is considered to be the basic principle of criminal law in England being in effect since the beginning of the 17th century.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 798

Advising On Torts Case Analysis

As a result, Chitra has developed claustrophobia and refuses to leave her house; in-law, we see that an inevitable accident is one that can not be prevented by the exercise of ordinary care, caution, or [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2302

Constitutionality of Flag Burning

While considered by the vast majority of Americans as a contemptible act, flag burning is an exercise of the freedom the flag itself represents.
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 657

Police and Policing – Change in Police Role

The new implementation of the act was encountered by public fears as the members of the public were not comfortable with the militaries that were deployed in mater to do with domestic affairs, as they [...]
  • Subjects: Homeland Security
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1868