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The actus reus and mens rea refer to the two components of a crime - they're both Latin terms which roughly translate into "the guilty act" and "the guilty mind" - it's much more accurate...

The doctrine of privity within the law of contract provides that only the parties to a contract can either enforce it or incur an obligation under it. So, if A makes a contract with B to incur a benefit upon...

Here we would need to first identify the potential issues that have been raised in the problem question. Once we have identified the potential issues, we must define each offence separately and clearly link ...

Robbery Offence of Robbery was defined under s8 Theft Act 1968 AR – ‘stealing, and immediately before or at the time of doing so, in order to do so, he uses force on any person or puts, or seeks to put, any ...

English law is often contrasted with civil law jurisdictions which have an overriding doctrine of good faith, because English law “characteristically, committed itself to no such overriding principle [of goo...