Offence Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Quick guide to the examinable offences for the BPP LPC Criminal Litigation Course.

This is a document I made with a brief summary of all the cases in Criminal Law on Paper 1 OCR A Level Law. It includes the case name, a summary of what happened, what rule the case established, what offence the rule applies to and a small image to jog the memory of the case. I used this to remember what cases were relevant in my final exam and I achieved an A*.

The eighth constitutional Amendment was put in overtime. The first section of the Amendment protected savage acts and the use of torture against detainees. Additionally, the Amendment outlaws imprisonment for punishment, perpetration, and agony. The Amendment was formerly understood to prohibit only cruel and torturous penalties, but the Supreme Court interpreted it to advocate suitable punishment for inmates. Following the Eighth Amendment's ratification, the Supreme Court has argued that cu...

CRM_1300___Notes Crime Definition: - Any form of human behaviour that is designated by law as criminal and subject to penal sanction A Composite Definition of Crime: - “Crime is a violation of societal rules of behaviour as interpreted by a legal criminal code created by people holding social and political power. Individuals who violate these laws are subject to sanctions by statue authority, social stigma, and loss of status” What Is a Crime? - This approach implies that ...

INSOLVENCY LAW_ MRL3701 SUMMARY NOTES WITH QUESTIONS. Study unit 1: Introduction to Insolvency Law Case Law: NB: Magnum Financial Holdings (Pty) Ltd (in Liquidation) v Summerly and another NNO 1984 (1) SA 160 (W) Meaning of “insolvency” Common meaning – a person is insolvent when he is unable to pay his debts, however, The legal test for insolvency is whether the debtor's liabilities, fairly estimated, exceed his assets, fairly valued. The inability to pay debts Is merely eviden...

fore positioned in the conditions within which each business subject can freely operate. (c) Finally, there are those who regard economic action exclusively as a means of realising other aims. In their view, moral decisions only affect the indi- vidual level. Economic action is therefore viewed as neither moral nor im- moral. The decisive factor in the moral quality of the action is the individ- ual goal of the actor. The question of adequacy conditions for economics and morality is thus ...

This document provides a summary of the lessons and slides, complemented by parts of the reader's texts (which I think) could be used as teaching material for the exams. Those parts have been added separately under the corresponding titles from the slides. By learning this summary and reading the texts, I passed the examen with a score of 16/20.