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  • In criminal law, the term offence against the person or crime against the person usually refers to a crime which is committed by direct physical harm...
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  • punishment, there were many MPs who were against the reform, and the deal offered was that former capital offences would receive a mandatory life sentence...
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  • Thumbnail for Legality of Holocaust denial
    along with Israel and Canada, have laws in place that cover Holocaust denial as a punishable offence. Many countries also have broader laws that criminalise...
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  • Many jurisdictions, such as Canada and several US and Australian states, no longer have a traditional common law offence of rape, which always required that...
    87 KB (11,253 words) - 04:23, 2 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for English criminal law
    criminal law concerns offences, their prevention and the consequences, in England and Wales. Criminal conduct is considered to be a wrong against the whole...
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  • Thumbnail for Offside (association football)
    the opinion of the referee, in order for an offence to occur. When the offside offence occurs, the referee stops play, and awards an indirect free kick...
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  • the law in force at the time of commission of the offence. Further, what article 20(1) prohibits is conviction and sentence under an ex post facto law for...
    61 KB (7,832 words) - 06:45, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blasphemy law
    and the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 received royal assent on 23 April 2021. The abolition of the common law offence of blasphemy formally...
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    law distinguishes between two types of treasonable offences: maanpetos, treachery in war, and valtiopetos, an attack against the constitutional order...
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  • classified as a criminal offence at all". A joint statement by the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice states...
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  • the offence of Rape in Nigeria". LawPàdí. 2021-01-13. Retrieved 2022-03-30. FIDA, International Federation of Women Lawyers Nigeria. "Violence Against Persons...
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    should no longer be a criminal offence", many western governments, including many U.S. states, repealed laws specifically against homosexual acts. However,...
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  • The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 reformed the law of sex crime in Northern Ireland similarly to how the Sexual Offences Act 2003 did...
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    Evidence Act, and Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 on laws related to sexual offences. The Bill received Presidential assent on 2 April 2013 and was deemed...
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    in Scotland is the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 and in Northern Ireland the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008. Part I of the Act makes...
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  • common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were formally abolished in England and Wales in 2008 and Scotland in 2024. Equivalent laws remain...
    44 KB (5,801 words) - 11:51, 13 May 2024
  • general, laws may proscribe acts which are considered either sexual abuse or behavior that societies consider to be inappropriate and against the social...
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  • International piracy law is international law that is meant to protect against piracy. Throughout history and legal precedents, pirates have been defined...
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  • an explosion likely to cause serious injury to property Offence against the person Property law Real property Freiberg, Arie (December 1996). "The Property...
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  • common law offences except contempt of court and contempt of Parliament, was abolished by the 1953 consolidation of the Criminal Code. In England and Wales...
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