The idea of the rule of law can be traced back to at least the time of Aristotle who observed that given the choice between a king who ruled by discretion and a king who ruled by law‚ the later was clearly superior to the former. In more recent times‚ it is Albert V. Dicey who is credited with providing the logical foundation upon which the modern notion of the rule of law is based. Dicey did not invent the idea of the rule of law but he popularized it in the late nineteenth century. His book‚ Introduction
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RULES GOVERNING SHIPMENT BY SEA: HAGUE RULES‚ HAGUE-VISBY RULES AND HAMBURG RULES The nature of the Hague-Visby Rules was discussed by the House of Lords in The Hollandia [1983] AC 565 (HL). The plaintiffs (shippers) shipped a piece of road-finishing machinery on board a Dutch vessel‚ ‘The Morviken’‚ belonging to the defendant carriers to Bonaire in the Dutch West Indies. The bill of lading issued in England limited the carriers liability to Dutch Florins 1‚250 ($250) which was less than the 10
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Investigations From the inception of the United States criminal justice system‚ extreme advancements have been made in the field of law enforcement. Particularly in today’s society‚ modern technological advances such as DNA profiling‚ fingerprinting‚ cameras‚ and wiretappinghave brought about new methods to aid in crime solving. Just two decades ago citizens in this country may have bought into the term “the perfect crime”‚ a crime that was so ingenious police would never be able to find
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PTLLS Resource PTLLS Resource Menu Search Inclusion‚ equality and diversity Jan 19th‚ 2011 @ 12:19 pm › Frances ↓ Skip to comments On to T3! As I said for the previous essay you may well have had this bundled in with T2 and be doing them both the same week. It pulls out from that question on legislation and codes of practice to focus closer on these particular and important issues. Check out the full list of Ptlls assignments if you need a different one. Level 3 – Explain how you could
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In this paper I will evaluate two divergent views on the meaning of life. These views are a traditional American Indian saying that goes “Leave the earth as you found it” versus a modernistic American view that goes “make your mark on the world.” I will argue that although these views on the meaning of life offer two very different meanings on how one should live their life‚ they are both compatible with each other. Thus both meanings can be reconciled. Firstly‚ I’ll begin by examining the traditional
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People can use conventions to give and receive sexual consent through other means than a “verbal expression of agreement” (Archard‚ 1997‚ p. 273) to move the initiation of sex from being morally impermissible‚ to morally permissible. A convention is when Person 1 does Y to express their consent to doing Z. The act of Y is understood through convention‚ as opposed to the act being understood in its natural way. This natural way may be understood as‚ Y would express what would be understood had there
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1014 Criminal Procedure Exam Table of Contents Introduction to Criminal Procedure – Crime and Society 4 Crime 4 Criminal law 4 Sources of criminal law in Australia 4 Justice 4 Procedural law 5 Substantive law 5 General criminal procedure 5 Current trend towards criminal procedure 5 Crime and history 6 Crime and society 6 Problems with criminal procedure 7 Reforms to criminal procedure 8 Context for making criminal procedures 9 Indigenous people and Australian criminal procedure 9 Ethnic minorities
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The most extreme sentence a convicted person can receive is that of death. This form of justice is referred to as capital punishment‚ more commonly known as the death penalty. It has been banned in many nations‚ such as Canada‚ but is still present in various states throughout America as well as in other countries. A person who is sentenced to death has usually committed a serious crime. Take for example first degree murder‚ which constitutes that the act was premeditated. In these cases‚ it is perceived
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10 Types of Food That Can Make You Sick The riskiest foods Food poisoning is a horrible‚ even potentially life-threatening experience. But it’s hard to determine if food is safe to eat‚ partly because problems are relatively rare. But knowing which foods are potentially risky can help. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has issued a list of the top 10 FDA-regulated foods linked to outbreaks since 1990. (That includes produce‚ seafood‚ egg‚ and dairy products‚ but not meat). Be
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Anderson: the Rule of Law Amid the Clash of Arms‚2009) From my view‚ Lord Bingham expressed the importance of rule of law through the comment he gave in the case Liversidge v Anderson(1942).As he claimed in the rule of law that the right of the individual is getting protected against the state‚ and there is a duty for the state to conduct their power based on the law without abuses it. Courts are playing an important role to make sure the justice and individual right is achieved. Rule of law is a
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