Citation: R .v Farrell (2002) NSWSC 375 New South Wales Supreme Court HEARING DATE {S): 19 February 2002 to 22 February 2002‚ 25 February 2002 to 28 February 2002 & 12 April 2002. Parties: Regina‚ Jason Edward Gordon FARRELL Criminal Law-Sentencing-Murder The Criminal’s Guilty Mind (Mens Rea): Jason Edward Gordon Farrell found that the decreased Liam Salter-Tully presumably broke into their flat and slept in the flat and thereby Mr Farrell was unhappy with this. The Criminal’s Guilty
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1. ------------------------------------------------- Basic Legal Notions Law - is a set of rules that is binding the community. A set of rules that can be enforced and is officially recognized. Law must be capable or reform and change as society’s values and ethics change. Relationship between customs‚ rules and laws- Customs and rules govern behavior but the courts do not enforce them on community members. The community may generally see a custom as right but it is not legally enforceable.
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‘And those who were seen dancing‚ were thought to be insane‚ by those who could not hear the music.’ This quote by Friedrich Nietzsche is provocative in describing insanity. Madness‚ the non-legal word for insanity‚ has been recognized throughout history in all societies. Primitive cultures turned to witch doctors or shamans to apply magic‚ herbal mixtures‚ or natural medicine to rid deranged people of what they believed to be evil spirits. The many mistakes made by those in the past need to be addressed
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How effective are the legal and non-legal responses in addressing the changing needs of women? The road to equality for women in Australian society is long but not without merit. However have females after two hundred and eleven years reached their destination? This is debatable but it is clear that there have been changes‚ both legal and non-legal. The answer lies in the exploration of the effectiveness of the mechanisms in place to determine where women have been‚ where they are now and where
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the law in achieving justice for parties involving in relationship breakdowns. Relationship breakdowns include the separation and divorce of de facto and married couples. Parties involved with relationship breakdowns include the two parties separating as well as any children that resulted from the relationship. Although de facto relationships are not legally binding unlike marriages‚ the Australian legal system still has means to govern over disputes that arise over
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great objects to preserve order and to do justice: and the two do not always coincide. Plato expressed that equity is a necessary element supplementary to the imperfect generalization of legal rules.[2] Seven Hundred years old clarion call of Magna Carta –“To no one will we sell‚ to no one will we refuse or delay the right to justice” very pertinently embodies the principle of legal aid. However‚ it was only when the colonial hangover of the Indian legal system was pointed by the committee for
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Legal Studies Stage 6 Syllabus 2009 © 2009 Copyright Board of Studies NSW for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales. This document contains Material prepared by the Board of Studies NSW for and on behalf of the State of New South Wales. The Material is protected by Crown copyright. All rights reserved. No part of the Material may be reproduced in Australia or in any other country by any process‚ electronic or otherwise‚ in any material form or
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HOW FAR CAN YOU APPLY LEGAL PLURALISM IN MALAYSIA Definition Legal pluralism is the existence of multiple legal systems within one geographic area that‚ in Malaysia‚ occur when – • the law of the British colonial authority exists alongside more traditional Malay “adat‚” Islamic and customary legal systems. • different laws govern different groups‚ i.e. Islamic Laws for Muslim conduct and Common Law for Non-Muslim conduct. • the customary legal systems of the indigenous population
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PROJECT ON LEGAL RESEARCH Submitted by: ANDREW T. GARCIA LLB 1-2 LEGAL DOCTRINES I. CIVIL LAW 1. Doctrine of Relations That principle of law by which an act done at one time is considered by a fiction of law to have been done at some antecedent period. It is a doctrine which‚ although of equitable origin‚ has a well-recognized application to proceedings at law; a legal fiction invented to promote the ends of justice or to prevent injustice end the occurrence of injuries
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Treatment of asylum seekers by the Australian legal system The treatment of asylum seekers by the Australian legal system is a controversial issue dealing with human rights and people from different sides have different perspectives on this subject .The Australian legal system has attempted to achieve justice for the parties affected by the matter through various court cases and legislation and policy changes. Has justice been achieved? The current Australian government perspective on this
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