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    “public participation and petition” as covered under the statute RCW 4.24.525? 2. Is the coop member’s lawsuit “based on” the boycott or based on the violation of the co-op bylaws? BRIEF ANSWERS 1. Yes. The board of director’s decision to boycott products is most likely a matter of public participation and petition under RCW 4.24.525(2)(e) because it is an action of lawful conduct meant to further the right of free speech under the statute. 2. The Washington Legislature intended RCW 4.24.525 to be

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    idealistic perspectives ignoring the practical realities that native title poses to governments, industry and indigenous people. The implementation of the Native Title is an appropriate and significant aspect of Australia’s common and statute law, which effectively strives to develop a fair outcome for all Australian citizens. The Native Title Act 1993, like the court Mabo decision in 1992, transforms the ways in, which indigenous ownership of land may be formally recognised

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    British constitution is written down, however, they are not all written down in a single document like a codified constitution would require as how the US is, however draws from several different sources such as; statutes laws, common law, conventions, EU laws, authoritative documents etc. Statute law, is a written law passed down by parliament for example the human rights act of 1998 which brought the European convention on human rights into British law, conventions is another

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    include grandchildren. In the present case, Roderick and Rommel Daoang, the grandchildren of Antero Agonoy and Amanda Ramos-Agonoy, cannot assail the adoption of Quirino Bonilla and Wilson Marcos by the Agonoys. Therefore, the general rule is that only statutes with an ambiguous or doubtful meaning may be the subjects of statutory construction. 5. Paras v. Comelec Is SK to be considered a regular local election in a recall proceeding? The subject provision of the Local Government Code, Sec. 74 Paragraph

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    “What should be included or excluded in a written constitution for New Zealand?” Moore (2016) emphasises the statement “time for a 40-page New Zealand constitution” declared by constitutional law expert and former prime minister, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, in his article on Stuff.co.nz. Palmer stresses that the present constitution is “dangerously incomplete, obscure, fragmentary and far too flexible” (Hagen, 2016). While there is a huge debate whether New Zealand should have a written constitution or

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    1. Has this man committed common law burglary? Common law burglary is the trespassory breaking and entering of the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with the specific intent to commit a felony therein. A dwelling is a place regularly used to sleep and Nighttime is the period when the countenance of a person cannot be discerned by natural sunlight. A strange man demanded that Amanda let him in her home (dwelling house), at 11 o’clock at night(nighttime) with the threatening gesture of

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    to benefit the people. (p.132) This is one of the main reasons why Radbruch criticizes positive law, it fails to create justice for the people. Another reason is that according to Radbruch, positive law is incapable of establishing validity of the statutes. Legal validity states that for a law to be valid, it must be given a rule of recognition, which the officials, the society and its members must accept. Members should have the ability to change the laws that govern them and since the positive law

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    The Advantages and Disadvantages of an Unwritten Constitution in the UK The UK has an unwritten constitution unlike the U.S.A. Instead Britain's laws, policies and codes are developed through statutes, common law, convention and more recently E.U law. It is misleading to call the British constitution unwritten; a more precise form of classification would be un-codified. This means that the British constitution has no single document, which states principles and rules

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    words in a statute are given their ordinary and natural meaning Fisher v Bell (1960). The golden rule is an extension of the Literal Rule and is applied when the use of the literal rule would give an ‘absurd’ result, which according to the judge, could not have been intended by Parliament. The judge can substitute and slightly stretch the meaning of the words in a statute Adler v George (1964). The Mischief Rule requires judges to consider three factors: • What the law was before the statute was passed

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    Some countries have unwritten constitutions which means there is no formal constitution written in one particular document. Their constitutional rules are derived from a number of sources. Britain sources its constitution from a number of important statutes, or laws, as well as principles decided in legal cases and conventions. New Zealand and Israel are two other countries that do not have formal written constitutions. Other countries have formal written constitutions in which the structure of government

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