Questions tagged [any-jurisdiction]
Questions where the asker is interested in any jurisdiction
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To what extent can actors use characters they've played?
Dean Norris, who plays DEA agent Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad, offers personalized videos on Cameo. For about $500, you can pay him to record a personalized video message. He donates the proceeds to ...
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Can you be fired for refusing to lie?
If your employer asks you to lie about something, and telling the lie is legal, but you refuse on moral grounds, can they fire you? Does it matter if religious beliefs are involved? (For example, if a ...
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The nature of do not contact requests and crafting one that is irrevocable and permanently keeping away an ex
Firstly, as a premise, what is the legal effect of expressly asking one not to contact them? Does it alter the nature of any future attempts to do so that are not of a legal-procedural nature? Off the ...
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Overriding offered contract acceptance methods with express written declaration
Bob would rather face the consequences of trespassing than pay for a license to occupy a privately owned parking spot.
He pulls into the lot which says “by parking here you agree to pay £10/hour.
Bob ...
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Lost merchandise: Replacement or refund
Bob ordered something on eBay from a seller and wins the auction for £40. The item is in good condition but more usually goes for closer to £150. Perhaps it has some uncommon quality that especially ...
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Legal bindingness/validity of implicit/presumptively entered contracts for occupancy fees
Bob advertises, openly and conspicuously, on the EXTERIOR FRONT of his guest house that people are permitted to occupy rooms therein for £60 per night. They may come in and pay before receiving keys ...
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Is it legal to use force against a person who is illegally trying to disconnect a hospital patient's life support with intent to kill the patient?
Alice is visiting Bob, who is on life support in a hospital, when Mallory comes into the room and tries to disconnect Bob's life support with intent to kill Bob. Is Alice allowed to use force against ...
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Is assault resulting in PTSD considered as causing serious harm?
Is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (or Complex PTSD) treated as an injury, serious injury or life-changing injury in cases of assault ?
I am interested in answers from any jurisdiction.
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Where is the line between patentable algorithms and copyrightable creative expression in software?
My understanding is that algorithms are protected by patents, and creative expression is protected by copyright. This could be illustrated by the following hypothetical:
Suppose a company releases a ...
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What crime(s) was Deedee Blanchard guilty of, and what sentences do they carry (in any jurisdictions)?
Deedee Blanchard was found to have been murdered by her daughter and her boyfriend. The daughter was going to receive 30 years imprisonment but upon the court hearing of the crimes to which she has ...
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Are street preachers worthy of being sectioned?
Some of them are really ridiculous, like they stand on street corners where they are likely to harass the most people and often they don’t even speak the best (by which I mean the most intelligible) ...
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Can it be illegal to have/use a "wipe data" login on your device?
Suppose I have a computer and I set up two logins that are identical other than one sanitises my data SSD upon logging on. This would cause any information I have on said drive to be inaccessible to ...
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How are business days to be counted?
Legally consequential instructions direct one on Wednesday the 3rd to submit something within 7 business days, and to expect a response within 7-10 business days. Are the weekend days of the 6th and ...
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Corporate Asset inventory discovery for enforcement of judgments
Bob has tried to resolve an issue with a large company’s customer service department to no avail. He then sends them a letter before claim and finally issues a small claim against them for the refund ...
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Is it possible for a court to adjust damages awards upward beyond what is asked for?
When a plaintiff (or counter-claimant) has only sought $1 in relief, do courts ever adjust that upward to reflect the true value of damages?
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What is the difference between the respective doctrines of de minimis and frivolous claims
Some claims are dismissed as de minimis while others are said to be frivolous. Are these two notions completely synonymous? If not then what’s the difference between them?
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Why was Gwyneth Paltrow‘s $1 not either adjusted upward or deemed frivolous?
Gwyneth Paltrow was subject to a merit less claim for however much, and she defended it while bringing a symbolic counter claim for $1, which I understood that she won on that order.
This brings up a ...
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Is a witness on the stand allowed to take notes?
I have read that witnesses in a court are allowed to refer to notes when they are testifying, but, without regard as to why they might feel a need to, are they allowed to take notes while they are ...
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Dispensing items free for restricted purposes
Suppose a grocery chain charges £0.3 for carrier bags but gives out smaller and slightly flimsier ones for free, but they are imagined as only to be used for fresh produce to be weighed.
Bob sees them ...
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How are parole boards formed?
Are they legally trained? Do they have oversight, like in the form of avenues for appeal from their decisions?
Are they selected from the lay public like a jury?
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In the context of third-party murder, is an unborn foetus a separate living thing? [duplicate]
Bob stomps on Alice's pregnant stomach, thereby causing the latter to miscarry. Did the former individual commit murder if the latter survived the assault?
Alice shoots Bob's pregnant stomach, thereby ...
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Did anti Miscegenation laws concern themselves either more with pairings of black men and white women, vice versa, or neither in particular? [closed]
I wonder which was more common in the era of those laws, and that in itself might be off topic, but as the laws of coverture treated men and women fundamentally differently, I am wondering if these ...
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Is it ever possible to "sell" the right to action a tort?
Suppose Bob discriminates against Alice on a date 1/1/2023. Alice has a right to sue Bob for this discrimination for some limited period, but she doesn't care to bother with the hassle of pursuing ...
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When does name-calling become slanderous?
Usually, the difference between ordinary insults/name-calling and actionable slander is taken to be that non-actionable insults are either subjective statements that can't unambiguously be determined ...
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Is it legal to use force against a person who is trying to stop you from rescuing another person?
Alice has been severely injured or is otherwise in danger. Eve wants to help Alice, but Bob is somehow preventing her from getting to Alice. Assume that Bob is not threatening to harm Eve; he is only ...
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Are there any laws against either excessively loud motorcycles or riding such motorcycles inconsiderately in residential areas at night?
Loud disturbing motorcycles are awful but occasionally circle around certain roads after midnight up and down gratuitously if the objective is actually transportation. One would hope that there are ...
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What is the legality and consequence of blocking one who submits a SAR? [duplicate]
Alice submits a subject access request to Bob via WhatsApp, Bob responds to this by blocking Alice, but otherwise ignores her. What is the legality and consequences of Bob’s response to her SAR?
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Who is the data controller of footage taken on a retail worker’s personal phone?
An on-duty retail employee draws their personal smartphone while in uniform and commences recording a customer. Who is the data recorded and held/controlled by, for GDPR purposes? Does the customer ...
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Can a customer of a business make a recording of an employee on the business’s privately premises?
Suppose a customer enters a store. The business, through an employee, treats the customer unlawfully. Perhaps this is by verbally or physically abusing them, discriminating against them, or denying ...
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What is needed to access the written materials in a case?
County court decisions tend to be public. Some refer to other case documents such as particulars of claim or defence statements etc, sometimes by precise paragraphs.
Suppose a member of the public ...
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Merchandise damaged prior to purchase
Imagine one is browsing items in the aisles of a grocery store and drops one of them accidentally on the floor so it breaks.
Must any grocery store would generally write it off and tell a customer not ...
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How far can cooperation between law enforcement and intelligence agencies go?
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1164085/sidtoday-dea-the-other-warfighter.pdf
This is a report explaining that DEA was aided by NSA's surveillance system at the time they were persecuting a ...
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Are there any crimes or civil wrongs in disingenuously wasting another’s time?
Suppose that one phones you and states that they have a Nigerian princes inheritance which they would like to arrange to send to you.
Or that they would like to donate some money to your organisation ...
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Why is it considered unethical for a barrister to communicate with another side or even their own client, directly?
Obviously there are exceptions to this provision, like ones who are "direct access"-licensed, but why does that in itself even require special licensing qualifications to be permitted? And ...
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Do all legal persons have human rights?
For example, a corporate legal person can be proceeded against with criminal charges. Instinctively, one would be inclined to apply such "human" rights as that to a fair trial in protecting ...
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Millions of people suddenly disappear without a trace. Legally speaking, are they dead?
Millions of people around the world provably and literally vanish at exactly the same moment. Their bodies simply no longer exist instantaneously. In many cases, this is witnessed, quite often by ...
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Can private prosecution be brought against anoymous identifying placeholder?
In a civil case, the proper name of the defendant need not be known and it can simply be filed against "the individual with this phone number" and their identity possibly later subpoenaed ...
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Are legislators and legislative drafts people legally one and the same?
If they are legally seen as such, this seems to me a pretty egregious (egregiously counterproductive) legal fiction. There is no way that members of a legislature can have the time to go through the ...
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Is it legal to hijack a plane to prevent the pilot from committing a murder-suicide?
If the pilot of a single-pilot aircraft carrying passengers (not an airliner) attempts to commit a murder-suicide by crashing the plane, is it legal for a passenger, who is not a pilot, to use force ...
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Can county court judges have separate jobs in private firms as solicitors?
Suppose a solicitor in a private firm is appointed as a judge. Are they allowed to continue working as a solicitor in a parallel private capacity? What provisions exist in the way of mitigations to ...
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What does it mean for a hearing that has been listed to be “vacated”?
Does it more strongly suggest that it will have been dispensed with finally, or that it will be rescheduled/relisted for another date?
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What is "distress," as in "distress for rent"?
There have been several distress for rent acts in the 17th and 18th centuries, which provide a right for distress. What is the nature of this right and the origin of its name?
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Can courts consider hansard transcripts in interpreting statutes?
When a court is trying to decide the meaning of a law, can it consider the discussions which begot it?
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What significance do specified damages figures have in a civil suit?
The suit filed in Los Angeles over the 1968 Romeo and Juliet film is reported in the Guardian which says:
Damages are being sought “believed to be in excess of $500m”.
What is the significance of ...
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At what stage in history did intervention of courts become required for tenant evictions?
In England and other common law jurisdictions (I assume throughout most of the world in fact) a tenant doesn't automatically lose entitlement to their home once they stop paying rent for whatever ...
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Legal "we": when is it appropriate to use "we" in legal correspondence?
Similarly to how a party's representative is often referred to in the third person as "solicitors," it seems often that in legal submissions and other correspondence, individual solicitors ...
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Is an employer required to provide full time sign interpreters to mute employees?
I visited a retailer and went through the self checkout till where I was assisted by a mute employee, who communicated with me through a sign interpreter whose job seemed to be to shadow and ...
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Is "not committing a crime" sufficient consideration?
Alice sees John attempting to steal her car. For some reason, instead of calling the police, she says "I'll give you $1,000 tomorrow if you don't steal my car." John agrees.
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Can I trick an innocent third party into doing something that would be illegal if the third party had mens rea without either of us being guilty?
Lets say I want something to happen but doing it directly would be a crime. This is one crime that requires intent or mens rea.
So I hunt down an innocent third party, someone naïve, perhaps even a ...
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How many people are charged and convicted for actions that are part of BDSM activities?
I was reading the answers to a questions I posted earlier, and I realized that my own question's assertion that BDSM activity "produces a sizeable risk" to the person doing the "S" ...
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