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Guilty mind versus guilty act. criminal law is the main area of law which carries the risk of the offender to have one of their main human rights curtailed -- their right to freedom, by putting the offend...

Step 1: It is key to lay out what the law of voluntary manslaughter and that it is a partial defence to murder.
So one must state this and then law out what the law includes and involves; namely lay...

Every crime (with a few exceptions) has the elements of actus reus (“guilty act”) which means the act of committing the crime (for example the act of stabbing someone in the case of murder) and mens rea (...

Remember I-P-A!

(1) ISSUE: which area of law does the question concern? What does the party you are acting for wish to achieve? 

E.g. "C ...

The royal prerogative is the residue of power, inmunity and privileges which remains with the Crown (in other words, the power the Crown has which it can use without an Act of Parliament requiring it to d...