...Criminal law report REGINA V. SORRELL [2003] NSWSC 30 (7TH February 2003) 1.0 Introduction This report is about Michael Furlong who was shopping for an electronic part at a shop in Smithfield. As he left the store, Sorrell approached him and fatally stabbed Michael Furlong with a hunting knife. Sorrell was found to be not guilty of murder on the grounds that he was mentally ill when he committed the crime. Sorrell suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. 2.0 Procedures of the case This Act is the Crimes Act 1900. PARTIES INVOLVED: Regina v. Sorrell, Michael Peter At about 4pm on 3rd June 2002, Michael Furlong, the victim and his brother Glen went to R.S. Components, an electrical retailer, at Smithfield to purchase electrical components. The accused was then present. He left the store shortly after. The victim and his brother had left the store and went to another electrical store in Smithfield. They were followed by the accused. When they returned to their vehicle having entered the store, the accused approached them, and, after speaking to the victim, killed the victim with a knife and chased the victim’s brother. The following day at about 3:20am the accused was apprehended asleep in his vehicle with a large hunting knife present with him, presumably the knife with which the offence was committed. He was in possession of the victim’s wallet which enabled the police to link the accused to the offence. 3.0 Court Proceedings In the R...
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...Contemporary Privacy Issues Report Introduction Privacy is one of the fundamental human rights, every individual should have full control over their personal information. However due to the continuous evolution of society and technology, the importance of a person's right to privacy has been eroded. This report discusses the contemporary privacy issues on different levels and areas, with specific focus on credit reporting, protection of customer’s private information by businesses, health records, internet data and government intelligence access to information. Sections of the current Privacy Act 1988, the new Australian Privacy Principles 2014, and legislations related to the topic areas mentioned above will also be discussed in detail, and the effectiveness of these laws will be analysed. A person's credit history contains a vast amount of personally sensitive information which have a high commercial value, therefore it is extremely important to ensure businesses adhere to the privacy act to prevent the unauthorised use of these information. Any misuse of information can cause great personal and financial harm to the victim. Privacy of health information is fundamental principle in health care. Lack of privacy information might result in people not seeking the health care they need which might be very risky to their own health and the health of others. The rate of technological development is accelerating too quickly and current laws are becoming irrelevant to...
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...The purpose of this report is to describe three employment laws and the consequences of non-compliance. The three employment laws covered are Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, The Civil Rights Act of 1991, and The Americans with Disabilities Act; all three employment laws written about are an explanation of non-compliance. There is also an assessment on how an organization can ensure compliance with employment laws. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was one law instated to ensure equal employment opportunities for all people no matter his or her race, religion, color, national origin, or gender. The 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity, Title VII states that showing any discrimination towards an employee by an employer bases on the applicants or employees race, color, religion, sex, or national origin is discrimination and will be viewed as unlawful. There are two major functions of the Act regarding discrimination: 1. Showing failure to hire an individual or refusing to hire an individual based on the terms outlined in the act are discrimination. In addition to the hiring process, relieving an individual from his or her duties within an organization, refusing benefits or compensation, changing one’s terms of employment or privileges of employment including any employment conditions of said employee based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin is viewed as a company practicing discrimination. 2. Practicing...
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...Law Report – Appendix Court | Date | Name | Case | Stage | Noted as | Supreme | 25/03/09 | Anthony Farell V R | Criminal | Appeal | C1 | | | Mohammed Ali V South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service | Civil | Trial | C2 | | | Gerard Michael Mcguirk V UNSW | Civil | Trial | C3 | District | 27/03/09 | R V Liam Paul Irwin | Criminal | Appeal (severity) | C4 | | | R V Warren James Ure | Criminal | Trial (adjourned for sentence – part heard) | C5 | Court Report Note: Refer to appendix for the case denoted by C1-5] The court is the medium in which judges and magistrates interpret the constitution as it applies today to administer justice; their judgements ultimately contribute to the doctrine of precedents. Australia has mainly adopted an adversarial system within a hierarchical court system in which the courts have specific jurisdictions. Two such examples witnessed are the District and the Supreme Courts – proceedings may be similar but their severity may differ but both seek to serve justice. At the district court cases C4 and C5 were seen first-hand with the former being a criminal appeal and the latter a criminal trial. In C4 the defendant had become a nuisance and acted violently. Subsequently he was placed under a bond, this was breached which led to the magistrate sentencing an imprisonment term but was appealed successfully against. Additionally, in C5 the defendant was prosecuted for carrying illicit drugs but argument focused on whether...
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...Part A: Question 1 Step 1: The legal issue of this case is to establish if there are legal intentions and also consideration that is required for contract. Step 2: An agreement is a compilation of acceptance and offer that both parties are able to agree on. An agreement is not able to form without the two components. An offer must be concise to the extent where it may be easily be approached to the other party to contract, which make the offer a legally binding document. An offer must be completed thoroughly and promissory, only then it can be considered an offer. A completed offer is defined as both party had come to an agreement and both parties understand the term and condition of the offer. The other feature of a completed offer is that the offer must be promissory, which is to say that if one of the both parties are unwilling to live up to the promise the promise is said to be illusory because it does not show that there are any changes in the context of the contract. In addition illusory promise cannot be enforced if there are no changes in the context of the contract(Lambiris 2010 pg 38). In the case of Placer Development Ltd v Commonwealth(1969)121 CLR 353, a subsidy would be paid to companies who imported timber into the country which is Australia by the commonwealth government. The Government did pay the importers the subsidy for a period of time but stopped for an unknown reason. Placer had imported a sum of timber and wants the government to pay...
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...EXPERIMENT 9: KIRCHOFF’S RULES Introduction Kirchhoff’s Law is defined through two separate components which are Kirchhoff’s Current Law and Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law. These two laws are collinearly related through its total summation being which is equal to 0, except that for Kirchhoff’s Current Law having its variables to be of currents flowing into and outward a node (fig.1), and for Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law having its variables in terms of the drops and rises of its voltages in a closed loop (fig. 2). ∑▒I_in +∑▒I_out =0 Figure 1: Kirchhoff’s Current Law ∑▒V=0 Figure 2: Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law For experiment 9 entitled Kirchhoff’s Rules, the activity hoped to exemplify and prove Kirchhoff’s Law in mainly one aspect of his law which...
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...This problem emphasizes the fact that even if we have two different charges, mutual electrostatic force between them will be same. 1.8 Coulomb’s Law in Vector Form As force is a vector quantity, it has some magnitude as well as direction. We will write coulomb’s law in vector form so that it will represent magnitude as well as direction of electrostatic force. Consider two charges q1 and q2 separated by distance r. First of all we will define . It is the vector joining charge q1 and q2. Unit vector along Where From Coulomb’s law As direction of force is along Quiz-5 If two charges of magnitude + q1 and – q2 are separated by a distance r, then find out force acting on the charge –q2. Sol. First define ....
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...OSCOLA Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities Fourth Edition Faculty of Law, University of Oxford www.law.ox.ac.uk/oscola Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1 General notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 1 .1 Citations and footnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 1 .1 .1 1 .1 .2 1 .1 .3 1 .1 .4 Citing cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Citing legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Citing secondary sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Order of sources in footnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 1 .2 Subsequent citations, cross-references and Latin ‘gadgets’ . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 1 .2 .1 Subsequent citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...AGLC Deakin University guide to referencing Before using this referencing guide you should always consult your unit guide to determine the required style. If you are still unsure, please check with your unit chair, lecturer or tutor. This resource is based on the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC). For further details and examples of citations refer to: Australian Guide to Legal Citation (Melbourne University Law Review Association Inc, 3rd ed, 2010). deakin.edu.au/referencing deakin.edu.au/referencing Last updated 28 April 2014 Table of Contents General principles ...........................................................................................................................3 Footnotes ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Quotation style .................................................................................................................................. 4 Bibliography ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Repeat citations ................................................................................................................................. 6 Square and round brackets in citations ............................................................................................. 7 Group author ...................................
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...Seal and former LAPD officer. Christopher Dorner had been fired from the LAPD nearly four years ago after reporting unnecessary conduct by another officer and in those four years he was planning something no one saw coming. Dorner posted a manifesto on his social network page and on February 3, 2013 it all began! His first 2 victims had been shot and killed and there were more deaths to follow. Dorner was after any and all law enforcement and anyone involved with them and LAPD had no idea what else was in store. The manhunt lasted for a little over a week and authorities had no idea where he was or what his next move could have been. Somehow, they caught up with him finally and it all ended with a cabin on fire and Dorner allegedly dead. ABC 7 was not subjective, they reported the information they had, and the reporters did not seem to make subjective comments in the first report. Some information I found odd to be reported was the preschool Dorner attended. Has the reports continued, it started to seem like all the stations were being subjective in their reports. Fox 11 news was the most subjective; the reporters shared how terrible they thought the events were and hoped for Dorner’s capture. In both stations the information that was omitted or never spoken of in detail was how good of a person everyone knew Christopher Dorner as. There were people who wanted to share their experiences with him and who have known him for years and never thought of him as a killer, but apparently...
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...Seal and former LAPD officer. Christopher Dorner had been fired from the LAPD nearly four years ago after reporting unnecessary conduct by another officer and in those four years he was planning something no one saw coming. Dorner posted a manifesto on his social network page and on February 3, 2013 it all began! His first 2 victims had been shot and killed and there were more deaths to follow. Dorner was after any and all law enforcement and anyone involved with them and LAPD had no idea what else was in store. The manhunt lasted for a little over a week and authorities had no idea where he was or what his next move could have been. Somehow, they caught up with him finally and it all ended with a cabin on fire and Dorner allegedly dead. ABC 7 was not subjective, they reported the information they had, and the reporters did not seem to make subjective comments in the first report. Some information I found odd to be reported was the preschool Dorner attended. Has the reports continued, it started to seem like all the stations were being subjective in their reports. Fox 11 news was the most subjective; the reporters shared how terrible they thought the events were and hoped for Dorner’s capture. In both stations the information that was omitted or never spoken of in detail was how good of a person everyone knew Christopher Dorner as. There were people who wanted to share their experiences with him and who have known him for years and never thought of him as a killer, but apparently...
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...Laboratory Report Format 1. Title Page: The following is an example of the proper lab report title page format. Of course, you must substitute information pertinent to the specific lab and course. The title page will be a single, whole page. Laboratory Exercise #1 Verification of Ohm's Law by Fred Derf Lab Partner: Jonathan Dough EETH 1811 Electronic Circuit Technology Lecture Section 001 Lab Section 101 Performed on: February 31, 1994 Submitted on: March 1, 1994 To: Dr. Pepper 2. Objective(s) Describe in formal language (third person impersonal) the objective(s) of the lab. State the rules or theories to be investigated in the lab. Rule of thumb: someone else, using the same knowledge you have, should be able to complete the task given this information alone. In some cases, lab objectives may be given to you. You should expand these supplied objectives whenever appropriate. List all components (including values) and major equipment required to perform the exercise. Be sure to include make, model, and serial numbers of all equipment used. This listing should not include items such as meter leads or jumper wires, which are required for the use of the laboratory equipment. By listing the equipment itself it is implied that the necessary meter leads or other connecting apparatus is included. Provide all detailed schematics which, when implemented, will produce the results desired. Do not include developmental schematics here. Computer drawn schematics are preferable...
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...types of entities. The not-for –profit sector receives money from the government, pledges, contributions and donations. The government receives money from taxpaying citizens and may be financed through bills or laws passed through Congress and the Senate. In order to maintain integrity with these entities, the people that the money comes from need to know where their hard -earned money is going. There have been at least two boards set up: the Governmental Accounting Standards board and the Financial Accounting Stand Board. These boards have installed several statements of standards that tell what type of items needs to be reported. They also set the standard on how to report these financial statements. These recommendations have come down from audiences such as the one reading this memorandum, the nonfinancial audience. The boards mentioned above are reviewing audit reports that receive federal grants and donations. This is to make sure independent audit firms are in compliance with all regulations. Another thing that has come down from the nonfinancial audience is the change in the reports has made it easier and simpler to understand for people that have a complete grasp on numbers. Each person that reads a financial report will be able to easily understand where the funds came from, how much money came in, and when and where the funds were spent. This simplicity in reporting makes it very easy not to take items out of proportion...
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...Ethics and Tarvydas Model Laura Garcia PSYC 410 Dr. Lane October 26, 2014 Ethics and Tarvydas Model 1. The counselor receives an intake for an attending physician, whom has worked with the agency in the past. This intake call is inquiring on a personal matter regarding his 17 year old daughter with an eating disorder / exhibited symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. It is relayed during the call; the physician will continue the medication management portion of treatment, while the agency provides counseling services. It was presented during the intake he was concern with being well-known doctor that would like to keep this information private from others and would like to pay cash for service. Phase 1: The counselor is aware of the physician’s rights to keep his daughters condition private, however providing medication to a family member is cause for concern when there may not have been a proper assessment completed or if it is not being documented properly. The influence the medication can influence the process of therapy; especially when there may be no medical documentation of initial symptoms can cause various problems with treatment. It is important in determining if there is medical documentation supporting the diagnosis/medication and what types of tools were used in determining those findings. Determine why she was not referred to an agency earlier, and why is it in the best interest for the physician to continue medication when the counselor would...
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...Sarbares Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). The Sarbanes Oxley Law was approved as a consequence of lots of corporate scams, this corporates intend to provide fake statements for potential investors, Recent articles write and posted on numerous websites are reviewing how to identify potential factors leading to unethical behavior or practices. But the most recent and trustful article is called “Becoming a More Relational Firm in the Post-Sarbans-Oxley Era”. As expressed by the article, the effects of SOX Law has influenced fiscal reports in a lot of ways. The law has required that impartial companies must audit the fiscal reports in which positions of the auditors must be rotated frequently, to ensure that scam cannot be made by the same auditor from year to year, and it’s apply in different sections: * Section 303: This section needs senior management to approve the accuracy and dependability of fiscal reports, meaning that the fiscal reports must be sign for the CEO or CFO of the organization they need to certify that they analize the reports and assure that the reports are accurate. The executives will be held accountable for any mistakes or irregularities by signing authentic records being aware that they will be held responsible for any intend to commit fraud * Section 302: Management needs to submit all material in detail to the SEC( securities & exchange commission) * Section 401: The publisher if the fiscal report is accountable for the accuracy and precision for...
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