The current common law defence of insanity as expressed in the M’NaghtenRules (the Rules) is summarised as follows. The defendant (D) will not be found guilty...
Often referred to as the “irresistible chocolatey-orange rascal”, more than 1 billion Jaffa Cakes are sold each year. The chocolatey, sponge-like snack, produced by McVitie’s, has...
Whether all legal obligations necessarily entail moral obligations depends on how one perceives the nature of the connection between law and morality, if it exists at...
Vicarious liability is a common law doctrine of English tort law that imposes strict liability on employers for the wrongdoings of their employees. The most common...
Think. What reaches your mind when you hear the word euthanasia? An escape, a murder, a solution? To consider the concept clearly, we should understand there’s...
To conceive of a ‘right’ to freedom of assembly is a relatively recent development coming out of the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA)...
John Stuart Mill famously said: “To make someone answerable for doing evil to others is the rule; to make him answerable for not preventing evil is,...
Defamation laws have existed from as early as the Roman times, protecting reputations from unwarranted abuse. As these laws have remained throughout the years, social norms...
The recent Charlie Gard case that has flooded international news is characteristic of the intricate, global controversy: who has the right over life? Infant Charlie Gard...
In the same way that photoreceptors in your eye respond to light, law responds to the stimulus of social pressure and technological advances. Take smoking as...