U.P.E.S College of Legal Studies Academic Year: 2014-15 Session: July-December Concept of Fair Trial: A Comparative Study with USA and UK Law of Crimes 2 Project Contents Introduction 3 Introduction The right to a fair trial is a norm of international human rights law and also adopted by many countries in their procedural law. It is designed to protect individuals from the unlawful and arbitrary curtailment or deprivation of their basic rights and freedoms, the most prominent of
repressing the black majority that included the colored, Indians and Africans. In this precept, the Afrikaners and the whites were given higher recognition in different realms of life. The superior races were given more attention in the access of the public facilities. They also had an upper hand in social events and could not be challenged. Some of the apartheid laws included the Prohibition of Mixed Marriage Act of 1949 as well as Immorality Act of 1950. These laws ensured that no South African blacks
INQUISITORIAL ELEMENTS IN INDIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM While the adversarial system requires the magistrate to remain an observer of the trial, it does not absolve him of his duty to provide assistance to the process of the trial. At stages within the decision making process, the Magistrate assists the case towards justice, some notable examples of which are as follows: • Sections 228 and 240 of the Code suggest that charge against the accused is to be framed by the Court and not the Prosecution
Back in 2001 the Indian Government back in 2001 decided to enact a bill to ban smoking advertisements at sporting and cultural events in order to curtail adolescents from picking up the smoking habit. Opposition declared the government was overstepping their authority by infringing on citizen and business rights and the government felt it was excising its right to protect adolescents from acquiring a lethal habit. Those in favor of the ban felt the Indian Government was looking out for its citizen’s
committee for framing the law were all kidney experts and thus, the Act has largely been framed keeping in view the kidney scams only. Finally the present Act dealing with regulation of organ transplantation called the Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA), 1994 has come into existence, it had quite a number of drawbacks in various sections and miserably failed to live up to its expectations on a lot of counts. The 1994 Act did nothing to ensure that hospitals would create protocols for retrieving
of choice, superior knowledge, and other obligations or circumstances surrounding the bargaining process. Unconscionable conduct is also found in acts of fraud and deceit, where the deliberate misrepresentation of fact deprives someone of a valuable possession. When a party takes unconscionable
of India. It is a statutory body set up in 1953 under the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952. The Forward Markets Commission is a regulatory body for commodity markets in India. Inherent objective is to achieve price stability by means of price discovery and risk management. The Commission also collects information regarding the trading conditions in respect of goods to which any of provisions of Act is made applicable. It also advises Central Government regarding recognition of associations
no one has been charge sheeted yet,” The judicial system have been proven ineffective to try to stop these acts of discrimination. This ineffectiveness is worsened when the police are discriminating against the Dalits themselves. The police cooperate with the abusers, this aggravates the situation and causes more trouble. State convenor P Sampath said that the police as have destroyed evidence of crimes of Dalit discrimination and purposely showing a lack of eye-witnesses. Caste Discrimination of
killed or imprisoned. This outbreak of witches occurred very quick and rapidly affected the Salem area. Many people began to question each other and their religious values. The town that was built in Gods liking has slowly strayed away from him and acts of Satan are seen more frequently which witchcraft was considered. As this newly found area began to grow, many factors occurred caused the trials and the massive accusation of witches in New England. One of the first obvious causes of the Salem Witch
Global education in Singapore includes social studies, which is organised around two core ideas of “being rooted” and “living global”, to promote national identity, multicultural understanding and global perspectives (Ho, 2009). Some of its goals are to “develop [students] into citizens who have empathy