Essays Tagged: "defences"

drinking and driving offenses

my essay I will tell you the various kinds of drinking and driving offences, the penalties,and the defences you can make if you are caught drinking and driving. Let me tell you about the different of ... receive the stiffer penalty for second offences. For the first offence here is the penalty and the defences you can make. Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcohol or drugs ...

(2 pages) 49 0 4.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The threat of accidental nuclear war

s on people that anaccidental nuclear war could be the result. With more and more of thesuperpowers defences being controlled by complex computers, the chanceof a malfunction increases as well. Add th ...

(3 pages) 50 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Drinking and driving offences

n my essay I willtell you the various kinds of drinking and driving offences, the penalties,and the defences you can make if you are caught drinking and driving.Let me tell you about the different off ... l receive the stiffer penalty for second offences.For the first offence here is the penalty and the defences you canmake. Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcoholor drugs i ...

(5 pages) 92 0 2.3 Apr/1995

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Drinking and driving offences

n my essay I willtell you the various kinds of drinking and driving offences, the penalties,and the defences you can make if you are caught drinking and driving.Let me tell you about the different off ... l receive the stiffer penalty for second offences.For the first offence here is the penalty and the defences you canmake. Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcoholor drugs i ...

(5 pages) 61 0 4.2 Mar/1994

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Law- General Defences- Examining all the possible defences for some one charged with murder- Actus Reus and Mens Rea

General DefencesThis is an assignment examining the general defences available to a person who is charged wi ... t raise a general defence or a particular defence allowed in relation to that crime, like mens rea, defences also vary from crime to crime as well as what the outcome of the charges brought against th ... the charges brought against the person will be if the defence used is successful.If we look at the defences for murder because this is where most the bulk of the case law lies and it will be necessar ...

(11 pages) 171 2 4.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The distinction between insanity, automatism and diminished responsibility in the Laws of England and Wales. Covers the M'Naghten rule which is also a dominant rule in US legal doctrine.

ty, Diminished Responsibility or Automatism. While, at one level or another, these "mental disorder defences" share common characteristics, they each differ significantly. Unfortunately, this point do ... plied to him." Such deep-rooted notions of culpability have necessitated development in the area of defences to ensure that those who fall outside of the legally recognised parameters of accountabilit ...

(12 pages) 132 1 4.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The Law of Torts

2.0 FINDINGS2.1 Rypper's Suit of Gymsock2.1.1 Conditions for Negligence2.1.1 Facts of the case2.1.3 Defences2.2 Gymsock Counter- Suit2.2.1 Conditions to Trespass2.2.2 Facts of this Counter case3.0 ANA ... Conditions to Trespass2.2.2 Facts of this Counter case3.0 ANALYSIS3.1 Rypper's Suit of Gymsock3.1.1 Defences3.1.2 Counter Suit4.0 RECOMMENDATIONS1.0 Introduction1.1 AimsThe Aim of this report is to gi ...

(5 pages) 255 0 4.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Media law subject defamation in relation to journalists. Australian based.

amation laws are primarily State and Territory laws (not Federal) and the laws, including available defences, vary within each separate jurisdiction. The law of defamation is supposed to offer solace ...

(2 pages) 58 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

What is AIDS .

iciency Syndrome. HIV is the virus thatcauses AIDS. AIDS is a serious condition in which the body's defences againstsome illnesses are broken down. This means that people with AIDS can getmany differe ...

(4 pages) 41 0 3.3 Aug/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Was Louis XIV merely concerned with 'la gloire' in his foreign policy?

hy for himself or alternatively to use it to secure natural frontiers for France thus improving its defences. During his reign Louis was involved in four major wars some of which Louis may be accounta ...

(5 pages) 50 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"From Naked Ape to Superspecies" by David Suzuki

These horizontal transferred diseases are extremely dangerous as the new carrier does not have the defences against it. By genetically modifying organisms, the opportunities to have these diseases in ...

(4 pages) 42 0 4.4 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Libel and Slander laws

rt will address the history of libel/slander laws, what actions constitute defamation, what are the defences used with defamation, what is a public figure, who is a public figure, and what private fig ... y little chance that things like "I did not mean it" or "it was a spur of the moment" would work as defences for slander. The law assumes that all or any remarks made to be final. This may seem harsh ...

(10 pages) 106 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Title: Defamation (966 words)

ements of the defamation tort that must be satisfied for a successful action to take place, and the defences for it.For a successful action of defamation to take place, regardless of whether its sland ... the plaintiff about the material is considered publishing the defamatory material.There are several defences to the defamatory claim. These are:1. The material is both true and to the public benefit.2 ...

(4 pages) 98 0 3.4 Aug/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Why did the Dutch revolt survive?

of time as a result. However, this did not provide an insurmountable obstacle: regardless of Dutch defences, the Spanish were able to re-conquer much of the Netherlands under Parma. Military consider ... cale, or Spanish contributions much greater, the revolt would have been crushed regardless of Dutch defences. One must therefore look to the relative strengths of the rebels to properly explain why th ...

(7 pages) 22 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Discuss your role as a nurse in preventing hospital-acquired infection while on clinical placement

e mechanism; this can be through wounds left by invasive procedures whereby the host's natural body defences have been bypassed.It is the nurses' responsibility to know the factors that can increase p ... ent and fluids, when carrying out any invasive procedure that breaches the body's normal anatomical defences, to prevent contamination of wounds and other vulnerable sites by pathogens in the operatin ...

(10 pages) 257 0 3.7 Aug/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Australia's involvement in the battle of Gallipoli

the Turkish realised immediately how vulnerable they were to future attacks and strengthened their defences with carefully laid minefields, well sited guns and search lights that swept the narrows at ...

(2 pages) 25 1 3.7 Sep/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Defamation cases

ver, the libel suits are complicated due to lengthy pre-trail processing, extensive preparation for defences, and financial consuming.Here is the recent libel case launched in Canada. York Professor D ... court presumes the statement is false, which could cause damages. Then, the defendant need to give defences.Whereafter the defendants enter defences to take charge of the libel. Since Noble neither a ...

(7 pages) 58 0 4.3 May/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

Australia's Change In Tech Over Time

Defences History "“ Before the Australian colonies federated in 1901, each of them had a small ...

(5 pages) 7 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers

War of 1812: Isaac Brock and The Fall of Fort Detroit

ck on Sandwich and Brock expected him to attack Fort Amherstberg at any time. While Brock armed the defences of Amherstberg, Sir George Prevost, the Governor General of Canada, was attempting to negot ...

(4 pages) 16 0 0.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

September 11

York. Then, while we weren't looking they hit the Pentagon (restricted air space) comprimising our defences. Then they went for Camp David (where the president usually goes in an emergency) but this ...

(2 pages) 15 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History