LEGAL DIGS

Where the prosecution case against a doctor comprised many similar allegations of indecent assault made by several of his former patients, the court was entitled to assume that the evidence of those witnesses was true before asking itself whether it would be an affront to common sense to explain the allegations on the basis of chance or coincidence. Where the defence alleged that the witnesses were mistaken or lying, it was permissible to take a cumulative approach to such evidence.

This article will consider the legal definition of sexual assault, what must be proven for there to be a conviction, and what you should do if you have been accused of sexual assault.

They could not accept (pp 16, 24) that when Parliament amended the relevant Act to criminalise acts of indecency it intended that general power to be used to circumvent the time limit placed on prosecutions under the specifically applicable sections of the same statute.

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Sexual Offences Act 2003

Maeve Roughton asks if it’s becoming a crime to think the wrong thoughts.

A basic introduction and summary of the voluntary act requirement. These notes include an overview of the actus reus of a crime.

Basic summaries and coherent overviews of omissions cases in criminal law.

An Act to consolidate section 16 of the Rent Act 1957 and Part III of the Rent Act 1965, and related enactments.

Does the suggestion of withdrawal of life-sustaining technologies reflect moral decay in our culture?

The Mental Health Act (MHA) says when you can be detained in hospital and treated against your wishes. You can be detained if professionals think your mental health puts you or others at risk, and you need to be in hospital. This is sometimes called 'being sectioned'

Physicians and nurses sometimes exert pressure on the families of critically ill patients to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining therapy from them. This pressure may stem from prognostic, professional, social, and economic factors. Although the pressure ...

Sometimes after injury or a long illness, the main organs of the body no longer work properly without support. Your health care provider may tell you that these organs will not repair themselves.

It’s been five years since my grandmother died, and I still remember how sterile, cold, and distant her hospital room felt, no matter my family’s loving

MAKING END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS