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
A hidden aspect of environmentalism is the idea of environmental justice where a particular section of society is made to bear the brunt of environmental exploitation because of their political and socio-economic status. One of the main principles of Environmental Justice is “Environmental justice opposes the destructive operations of multinational corporations.” (Carder, n.d.). So here I present the story of how a multinational, Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary)
It is natural to think that our moral judgments about the outcomes of people’s actions are sensitive to whether or not those outcomes were intended or side effects. There’s a big difference between walking up to someone in the street and punching them straight in the face, and accidentally hitting someone while trying to provide directions to another passerby. In the first case, intentions would be bad, and so the outcome is judged as a moral offence; the latter was an accident, a side-effect of
victims did not to have the level of involvement within the criminal justice system that they do today. The victims' rights movement came to fruition due to the influence of various social movements that flourished during the 1960s, including the women's movement, the children's rights movement, and the civil rights movement. Since the 1970s, the victims' rights movement has worked to give victims a bigger role within the criminal justice process. The reformation of law in regards to the rights of victims
psychologically through meeting and communicating with their offenders. Victim-Offender mediation allows the victims the opportunity to be treated more than a mere witness. It also provides an opportunity for the victim to be part of the outcome of justice. The victims are given the invaluable opportunity to confront the offenders in a situation that allows the latter to fully understand how the crime has affected their life and to ask questions about why the crime was committed against them. Victim-Offender
Plato, a world renowned philosopher, developed a set of beliefs that there are natural human laws and rights. Natural law is a set of justice beliefs that are pure in its simple form. Plato's belief was that everyone everywhere deserved these rights. In literature you can see this develop as most heroes are given their humanity and the times where life presents the difficult decisions to create fairness and equality. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Atticus and Scout to personify humanity
At the beginning of the class the groups can be asked to share the major issues in the case study. During this the groups should be encouraged to present all the possible issues of employee relations at the workplace for example: significance of employee relations, disciplinary enquiry, grievance and its settlement along with the counseling, its role and execution at the workplace. After it, there can be classroom discussion about various aspects of industrial/ employee relations and the students
surgical specimens removed from the body, and Clinical Pathology that involves the laboratory analysis of body fluids and tissue. Both are used in the practice of forensic pathology, which is “the determination of the cause and manner of death in cases of suspicious or unexplained death,” (Siegel, 2011, p. 70). Siegel state that a forensic pathologist is a physician, also called medical examiner, who has studied not only disease but also trauma such as wounds and damage on deceased victims as well
Center, (S. Brown, "The death penalty: Worth the cost?" NWI Times, July 4, 2010) the average cost to a county for a trail and direct appeal is over ten times more than a life-without-parole case. The average of a death cost is $449,887, as for the average cost of $42,658 for a life-without- parole case. There was a study by the Legislative Services Agency for the General Assembly that found that even with factoring in the longer incarceration period for those people sentenced to life without parole, the
reference in the study of world environmental movement. Rachel Carson’s (1965) Silent Spring seems to be the most popular text on ecology ever published in human history. It presented the negative impact of pesticides and insecticides on environment. Gorz, Andre (1980) presents the view that ecology constitutes an integral part of politics. Shiva Vandana (1988) has tried to look at the issues related to development and ecology from a feminist perspective. Her work (1991) on conflicts over natural resources