defendant successfully pleaded private defence where upon the minister put forth the following question: could a person ever be justified in using lethal force to protect their property? The court decided unanimously in the affirmative with judge Steyn stating that “if the use of necessary force is justified ... then it is not clear to me why deadly force must be excluded from that principal…proportionally will not do as a general basis for private defence” . This judgment was passed 40 years before the
HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION. Introduction Humanitarian intervention raises one of the most controversial questions in international law of great contemporary relevance as it has its place in international politics and it is set in the state practice. In this essay I will provide an account and analysis of one philosphical perception of it and then contrast it with a different one while trying to reflex on certain issues myself and look at them critically. Thomas Franck and Humanitarian Intervention Professor
opposed by the statement that child labor is merely another measure to manage economic difficulties that citizens of developing countries encounter. If we consider child labor to be rooted in poverty and lack of education, then education itself, as this essay has argued/consulted statistics and studies clearly show, might be the key to improve children’s well-being. In conclusion, labor is naturally associated with exploiting children for financial gain and should, hence, not be recognized as appropriate
There goes Christopher Columbus, sailing through the rough wind and waves. After days of travel, he finally sees the land himself. With this journey, he would have found the way to get to India by not traditional East route, but by a Westerly route. As he gets close to the shore, he would have thought in a way Thomas L. Friedman has thought in the recent age. “Was this the New World, the Old World, or the Next World?” (Friedman 663). Columbus was searching for India, and he reached America. Friedman
this would not be the case, for example, if an elderly woman dies from pneumonia. In this case, the elderly woman is not dying because she has lost access to what she needs to survive but due to a circumstance in which she cannot control. Brown also uses another example of why we receive medical services. He says it is not because we are entitled to it, but because we are a part of a health program. Another scenario is if a patient who needs a kidney transplant dies due to lack of donor or a perfect
have no objection to that. It's a fact: I am a sinner, a fallen human. But to be called a murderer by the police! What a fucking joke” (Adiga 60). Rather than being ashamed of who he has become, he indignantly focuses on bashing the police and the use of offensive words, properly depicts his
In the case of Burdett, the use of presumptions in criminal law was encouraged and accepted by the judges, with Best J stating that there could not be presumptions without evidence and that there was scarcely a criminal case whereby the courts did not act upon presumptions. In civil