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With any criminal offence there are two elements to the crime; the Mens Rea and the Actus Reus. The Mens Rea element is the mental part of the crime and requires proof that the defendant was in a guilty state of mind before the defendant can be convicted of a crime. There are three different types of Mens Rea; direct and oblique intention, recklessness and negligence. Intention is differs from motive or desire. For example if defendant kills their wife who is suffering from a terminal illness, to

values, practices and morals too it 's own. However, King held the perspective that Canada misrepresented and undermined its Aboriginal inhabitants. Therefore in 2012, King wrote a history book, that attempted to bring to light the Canadian-Aboriginal relations and a First Nation perspective of their representation, history and political desires to the forefront of readers attention. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, was the end result that encompassed King’s

Recently, the UNCTAD report of 2015 has waged a fierce war against the International Arbitration System by proposing some radical reformations to the ISDS mechanisms. One of the crucial challenges pertains to safeguarding the sovereignty of States with regards to their public policymaking by placing some limits on IIAs. In other words, the report suggests that the current International Arbitration mechanisms have constituted a breach to the sovereign right of the states to apply their national

In 2008, security at an airport in Cairo captures a man attempting to smuggle priceless Egyptian artifacts, including two mummies of a cat and an ibis. (BBC News 2008) In 1999, authorities in Thailand found over 700 artifacts, many of them almost a thousand years old, hidden in a sculptor’s house in a town called Ayutthaya. Many of them are related to Buddhist practices and structures, and are thought to have been stolen from important sites. (Akanond 1999) Even more recently in 2015, due to the

(Cournoyer page 140). The existence of legal duty to act reasonably owed by the defendant to the plaintiff means the extent of safety required by an establishment owed to the guest or patron. For example if a hotel knew the mirror on a guest room wall was unstable, it is their job to fix the

company theory. Covered will be the basics of each theory and any complex issues will be discussed upon necessity. Entity theory is where the consolidated group is an entity separate from its owners. Emphasis is on the control of the group of legal entities operating as a single unit. Consolidated assets belong to the consolidate entity, and he income earned by investing in those assets is income to the consolidated entity, not the parent company stockholders. Reference SFAS No 14 for more

The elements of the offence in gross negligence manslaughter cases are the omission to act where a life is in danger and where there was a duty of care owed to the deceased by those who are accused of the offence. If it can be shown that a duty of care was owed then there will also be a duty to act. If there is a failure to act then criminal liability will follow. In applying the law to this scenario it is essential to establish that a breach of duty has occurred which has resulted in the outcome

The Legal System and Ethics Mid-Term Exam Andrian Lord Intro What is a world without laws? Would that be the same as asking what is an apple without its color? Or perhaps the simple question of why does one tie his or her shoes the way they do? Even better, why is it illegal to walk nude amongst peers in the open? Maybe because the law says so. But what is law. Is it this natural thing or is it man made? Do we follow them on our own accord or do so because the law says so? All of these questions

From my birth, I assumed the role of the underdog. Born to a mother who was only fifteen years old, and later raised by my mother and grandmother along with six other siblings in an impoverished inner city neighborhood without the benefit of a father or any other familial male influence in my life, I have always been cognizant of what the statistics predicted would be the likely outcome of my life. Yet somehow, at an early age, I relished the role of the underdog and used it as a means for motivating

interdisciplinary. These last courses one met my historical studies factor which is framework. Framework allowed me to explore historical studies in that dealt with American history and global history. the courses associate with both histories are U.S. History to 1865: What Does It Mean to Be a Free Nation, Global History to the 15th Century, U.S. History from 1865 to the Present and Introduction to Women 's and Gender Studies. Problem-oriented is framework that focus on consideration of possible resolution or