The system of law enforcement that is directly involved in apprehending, prosecuting, defending, sentencing, and punishing those who are suspected or convicted of criminal offenses. Criminal Justice System refers to judicial process or procedure of adjudicating criminal issues of which ...

Custody may refer to: Government and law Child custody, a description of the legal relationship between a parent (or guardian) and child Custody and repatriation, a Chinese administrative procedure 1982–2003 Legal custody, a legal term in England and Wales for a ...

Introduction: Legal status of women indicate to what extent women enjoy equality in the socio-economic and political spheres of the country. Laws protecting women’s rights provide the essential framework for formal equality to be transformed into reality. They also provide legal protection ...

One of the most controversial topics in the last decade has been that of physician assisted suicide. Physician assisted suicide occurs when a physician or other medical professional assists a terminally ill or disabled person to take their own life, ...

When referring to the phrase Gillick competence, commentators are normally discussing the ability of a minor to make his or her own choices and have such choices upheld by the law. Most commonly, discussion relates to medical treatment and stems ...

Paton v. British Pregnancy Advisory Service The rights of the foetus in relation to it’s mother and society is a conflict which transcends societies and time. The greatest names of antiquity have all had an opinion on the issue such ...

The term Euthanasia refers to the practice of ending a life in a painless manner. Euthanasia is precisely defined as “a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering”. The term euthanasia is ...

Dissociative identity disorder (DID; popularly and formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder), which is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identity states that recurrently take control of behavior, along with episodes of amnesia (APA, 2000), has been ...

It is referred to as lunacy or unsound mind, mental abnormality, disease of mind etc. an insane person cannot think and act as a normal human being. His capacity to know things is perverted. It is called ‘non compose mentis.’ ...

Duty of care can be described as a control mechanism that is used to establishing if one person can sue another for negligence. The landmark case in establishing ‘duty of care’ was the well documented case of Donoghue v Stevenson ...