Law Lab The first lab we did for chapter 4, Newton’s Second Law, dealt with the relationships between force, acceleration, and mass. Our goal was to verify Newton’s Second Law that says force is equal to the mass multiplied by the acceleration. Our procedures included setting up the lab according to the directions and collecting data as someone moved the cart that we set up […]

Learning to Love the Ban by Elisabeth Rosenthal On Jan. 10, 2005. Italy enacted a law that banned smoking in public places like offices, restaurants, cafes and bars. Smokers declared?baste! ? they would never comply. Restaurant owners were certain business would suffer. And politicians worried that an essential pleasure of Italy would be lost. Nearly two years later the result is that people in Italy […]

Why do we need laws? The law controls social relations and behavior To satisfy our basic needs and to exploit the full potential of human existence, people have always sought to live in company or society with others, the basis of this existence, by its very nature, must involve social interaction. To ensure the society functions effectively and survives it is necessary to establish norms […]

June 2012 Question 4 Discuss the criminal liability of Jameela and of Leah arising out of the Incidents in the town. First ot all there is a battery with the initial contact that Jameela has on Ken. The AR of battery is “infliction of unlawful violence”. Battery is defined as being the slightest touch without permission as In the case of Cole v Turner, the […]

The law of intention, following the cases of Woollin [1999] 1 AC 82 and Matthews [2003] 3 Cr App R 30, is now satisfactorily defined in the criminal law. Intention, normally means desire to aim at something. However, in criminal law, mens rea known as ‘guilty mine’, it requires two distinguishable intentions which are direct intention as well as oblique intention, and apart from, also […]

Page 1 All ER Reprints/[1914-15] All ER Rep /Hickman v Kent or Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders’ Association and another – [1914-15] All ER Rep 900 Hickman v Kent or Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders’ Association and another [1914-15] All ER Rep 900 Also reported [1915] 1 Ch 881; 84 LJ Ch 688; 113 LT 159; 59 Sol Jo 478 CHANCERY DIVISION ASTBURY J 4, 25 MARCH […]

Q1. Legal strikes and illegal strikes are dramatically different in terms of how they are viewed in Labour Law. Discuss. (5 marks) Section 1 (1) of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 defines “a strike as a cessation of work, a refusal to work or to continue to work by employees in combination or in concert or in accordance with a common understanding, or a slow-down […]

Introduction: The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), passed by the Congress in 1938, is applicable to employers involved in interstate commerce, directly or indirectly, and some certain types of businesses.  FLSA provisions regarding maximum hours standardize a work week of 40 hours for particular workers. These workers are to be paid an overtime of 1.5 times the workers’ normal pay rate for all hours worked […]

The topic of concealed carry is something that a lot of people are talking about. Turn on the news, the radio, read the newspaper, surf the internet and the topic of conceal carry will be discussed. The reason it is so highly discussed is due to the effect that conceal carry will have on everyone regardless of race, age, and socio- economic background. As a […]

Introduction In acting as advisors for the Pilot’s Association Australia and Airlines Union Australia, we seek to explore the legality of the various actions of the Jetair Ltd. ’s Board of Directors which ultimately lead to the hiring of a new staff body in New Zealand by JetairNZ Ltd at a lowered salary and the subsequent redundancy of Jetair Ltd. ’s Australian-based senior managers and […]