Lord Hailsham in Haughton v Smith famously stated, “an act does not make a man guilty of a crime, unless his mind be also guilty.” With...
Whether all legal obligations necessarily entail moral obligations depends on how one perceives the nature of the connection between law and morality, if it exists at...
John Stuart Mill famously said: “To make someone answerable for doing evil to others is the rule; to make him answerable for not preventing evil is,...
It was only a week ago since Boxer Nick Blackwell suffered a bleed on the brain following his British middleweight title defeat by Chris Eubank Jr...
So long as a crime lies in the human mind it is not punishable, because criminal thoughts often occur to people without any serious intention of...
For centuries legal philosophers have struggled with the challenge of defining exactly what ‘law’ is and what true purpose it should serve in society. From this...
Historically, the law rejects people’s right to own their own body. Granted that this were the case, we as humans would possess the ability to auction...
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can’t buy. But what can money not buy? Nowadays, I...
Imagine a situation where a person finds a substantial amount of money in an envelope on the floor of a shop. The finder hands the envelope...
Along with the wave of a new youth culture in the 1960’s under the young and charismatic Harold Wilson came a set of laws to match...