Law Offence in UK Law
- Common Law Offence: Breach of the Peace
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Murder as an Offence under English Law
This article examines the territorial and extra-territorial ambit of the offence of murder under English law. This is not strictly speaking a question concerning the jurisdiction of the courts, but...
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A Critical Analysis of the Law Commission's Proposed Cyberflashing Offence
The Law Commission has proposed a new offence of cyberflashing to combat the problem of sending unsolicited images or videos of human genitals to others. It seems that what the Law Commission has i...
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A Critical Analysis of the Law Commission's Proposed Cyberflashing Offence
The Law Commission has proposed a new offence of cyberflashing to combat the problem of sending unsolicited images or videos of human genitals to others. It seems that what the Law Commission has i...
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Can the General Fraud Offence ‘Get the Law Right’?: Some Perspectives on the ‘Problem’ of Financial Crime
The Fraud Bill, which received Royal Assent on 8 November 2006, created an offence of fraud in English criminal law which marks a departure of utmost significance from the approach adopted hitherto...
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Aligning policy and law? The creation of a domestic abuse offence incorporating coercive control
Since 2000, the Scottish Government has adopted a gendered definition of domestic abuse which explicitly positions it as both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality. Following the launch of...
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Prosecuting political dissent: Discussing the relevance of the political offence exception in EU extradition law in light of the Catalan independence crisis
Most extradition treaties contain a political offence exception clause, which precludes extradition from taking place when the concerned crime is considered to be political by the requested state. ...
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Hate crimes and the law: Introducing caste hatred as a public order offence
The UK government has been provided with evidence that minorities who are of South Asian origin suffer discrimination based on ‘caste’ which is a particular characteristic of Indian sub-continental...
- The Political Offence Exception in Extradition Law: An Antidote to Prefixed Ideas about Political Integration in Europe?
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Treason Versus Outraging Public Decency: Over-Criminalisation and Terrorism Panics
In this article, I shall try to outline some grounds for resisting enacting new treason-type offences. It shall be argued that an offence of treason based on the wrongness of ‘betrayal’ would add n...... ... It shall be argued that an offence of treason based on the wrongness of ‘betrayal’ would add nothing extra to the protection that is already provided for in a plethora of ter- ... ...
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