The toad of the title appears in the diary of the Reverand Francis Kilvert in an entry dated February 1st 1871. The tale is one of an alleged theft and the process undertaken to unmask the perpetrator. It is an exemplar ...
Difficulties in establishing guilt being those of the determination of mens rea and of the evidence of the cause of death is a task for the sophistication of forensic science and the disputation of the expert witness. Yet ...
In March 1998, an ink drawing by George Romney was sold at Agnew's for £17,500. In the catalogue it bore the title 'Torment - Scene in a Lazaretto' and that title recalls a number of other scenes by Romney executed in the ...
Prior to the coming into force of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (YJCE), evidence of prior sexual history between the complainant and defendant (as opposed to evidence of sexual history between the ...
This article approaches the medieval law of theft from a ‘functional’ perspective. It seeks, that is, to consider the rules of law principally in relation to the social circumstances which give rise to them and upon which ...
Policing and War in Europe marks a new departure in Criminal Justice History. These seven chapter essays, together with the reviews of twelve major works in the area, establish the series as a major forum for exploring new ...
A long time ago hens did not lay white or brown eggs but eggs in primary colours: red, yellow and blue. Since, depending on the colour of the eggs, their taste and quality varied, the farming industry split into red, yellow ...
Jethro Brown's place in the history of the Aberystwyth Law school is secure, but his contribution to scholarship more generally is largely forgotten. Through an analysis of his critique of the jurisprudence of John Austin ...
This second volume of Current Problems of Mexican Social Law reflects once again, as did the first, the current status of various aspects of social rights that have been recently approached by their novelty or their ...
Abstract News reporting plays an important sociological and political function in forming public opinion and thereby assisting in the democratic process but the publication of newspapers is also a lucrative business. The ...
Rowland, Diane(Electronic Law Journal. Warwick Law School, 2004)
Data protection law has been a feature of the UK legislative landscape for 20 years and has arguably had a significant impact on the way in which personal data are held and treated. Although the law does not of itself ...