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
elicited interests from scholars and international agencies. Although these studies provide significant insights into the conflicts in the Niger Delta, the issue of transitional justice has not been adequately addressed. Consequently, this article examines transitional justice mechanisms in the Niger Delta, gaps and prospects. The article begins with the conceptualization of human rights violation and transitional justice. It then makes an overview of the Niger Delta and the human rights situation
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
- constitute an immense field of study that embraces all aspects of the relations and interactions between law and society. Sociology of law is most often distinguished from sociological jurisprudence. The latter is not primarily concerned with debates within mainstream sociology but instead engages in some of the debates within jurisprudence and legal theory. Developed in the United States by Louis Brandeis and Roscoe Pound[ D.L. Faigman, Laboratory of Justice (Ist ed.). New York: Henry Holt and
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
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
elicited interests from scholars and international agencies. Although these studies provide significant insights into the conflicts in the Niger Delta, the issue of transitional justice has not been adequately considered. Consequently, this article examines human rights violations and transitional justice mechanisms in the Niger Delta. The article begins with the conceptualization of human rights violation and transitional justice. It then makes an overview of the Niger Delta and the human rights situation
consent is powerful enough to turn battery into boxing. That being the case, the ideal method of establishing a moral duty to obey the law is through an individual’s own consent to be governed by that law. Here the importance is laid to the consent of the individual to be governed by the law because if the individual himself gives the consent to be governed then there exists for him a moral duty to obey the laws as well. Here the natural and positivists law approaches on the