Law

Full Detailed Notes including exam structures and exam tips -Criminalisation and Punishment -Purpose of Criminal Law -Offences and different types of offences -Actus Reus -Mens Rea -Relationship of Mens Rea to Actus Reus & Strict Liability -Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person -Assumptions with offending -Offences -Sentencing -Rape -Assault -Sexual offences -Evidential and Conclusive Presumptions -Rape Myths -Criminal Justice System -Alternative Approaches -Homicide -Mans...

Full detailed notes including exam structures and exam tips -Negligence -Negligence Liability -Duty of Care -Breach of Duty -Causation -Damages -Defences -Vicarious Liability -Tort System -Exceptions cases/scenarios -Tort Law 21st Century

Full Detailed Notes -Offer and Acceptance -Intention to Create Legal Relations -Consideration -Mistake -Misrepresentation -Duress -Exemption Clauses -Exam Tips and Structures throughout

Should moral theories and personal opinion influence judicial reasoning in cases concerning wrongful conception?

“Their Lordships nevertheless recognize that too rigid adherence to precedent may lead to injustice in a particular case and also unduly restrict the proper development of the law. They propose therefore to modify their present practice and, while treating former decisions of the House as normally binding, to depart from a decision when it appears right to do so.” Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 WLR 1234. Discuss.”

“A judiciary which is more reflective of society will increase public confidence in the often life-changing decisions being made in courts and tribunals. … Public confidence also demands that good judges continue to be selected and so the principle of appointment on merit must and will remain.” Christopher Stephens, Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission (2011-) Historically there has been a tension between the need for the judiciary to 'reflect' society and the principle of...

Non-fatal offences against the person, as set out in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, represents “a ragbag of offences brought together form a wide variety of sources with no attempt, as the draftsman frankly acknowledged, to introduce consistency as to substance or as to form” (Prof JC Smith, 1991).