Law According To A King

"I'm an A-level student studying English Literature, History, and Government and Politics, currently serving as Deputy Head Girl of Herschel Grammar School, and a Co-Founder of the Herschel Law Society. I hope to study Law at university and pursue a career in the legal industry. I love to read - currently reading "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky"." The question raised about felon disenfranchisement also inevitably raises the question as to whether the prison system should be more about rehabilitation, or punishment; something which must also be considered when contemplating this predicament. Convicted persons, during the time that they are detained in a penal institution, are legally incapable of voting at any parliamentary or local government election . One presumes this to be completely preposterous because prisoners, even those who serve the average life sentence, will eventually be released into society, and will be expected to become productive citizen...

When it comes to the central question of legal philosophy, academics are divided. Do we have an obligation to obey the law? Crimes are committed on a daily basis, some benignly, others maliciously, and yet we are faced with the same question of whether we have a duty to follow the rules that govern our society. Wolff argues we never have such an obligation - a legal anarchist - whereas Raz approaches this from the more transactional perspective: we have an obligation to obey the law when it helps us to do something we wanted to do anyway. Shelby, on the other hand, pays particular attention to the role of society in answering the question, and argues that our obligations are differentiated on the basis of how society treats us.  Shelby writes of the ghetto: an urban neighbourhood characterised by concentrated poverty, racial segregation, violence and crime, unemployment and numerous other social issues that cast our imagination to scenes not dissimilar to those in The Wire , where ...

"I would consider myself a confident person who likes to socialise and spend time with their friends in their free time. However, I have a more serious side and in my spare time also like to debate current issues in the world and consider different viewpoints about these issues." In 1707, English law became one of two legal systems in different parts of the same  United Kingdom. Since then, the law is something that billions of people put their faith in daily: from trusting that people will be fined for not picking up their rubbish to trusting that  the big, bad criminals will be locked up in prison. However, devastating mistakes have made  many people in todays’ society, including me, question should we truly trust the legal system  that we have relied on for many years? If I say the names Derek Bentley and Elijah McClain  you may not recognise them. But that is where the problem lies, these two innocent people  deserve to be talked about more and how the ...

"17-year-old currently studying law, RE and History at A Levels." 1. Anti-Asian hate crimes during COVID-19. While the pandemic has wreaked havoc on people's health around the world, it has also resulted in an increase in hate crimes targeting a specific racial group. East Asians have recently been subjected to more heinous abuse than ever before and with COVID-19's origins in China, many uneducated individuals have taken it upon themselves to racially attack anyone Asian, believing that just because they are of Asian descent they need to be referred to as some disease. According to data from the UK police, hate crimes against East and Southeast Asians increased by 300 percent in the first quarter of 2020, compared to the same period in 2018 and 2019. From name calling, to physical abuse, there has been a wide range of attacks and they are damaging the safety of Asians in society. Jonathon Mok, 23 was just simply walking along Oxford Street when he heard the chants of...

"Hello! My name is Trudy and I am a 17 year old A level student. I am aiming to read law at university, and I'm highly interested in commercial law, land law and inequalities within the law. " To be homeless is a multifaceted circumstance, one that is often misconceived and generalised. A person can be legally homeless for many reasons, for example, if they are at risk of abuse, are living in unreasonable housing, unemployment – not forgetting the hidden homeless who are living in temporary accommodation, emergency housing, or squatting. Coronavirus induced an economic hardship on a myriad of people, and The Bank of England expects the unemployment rate to reach around 5.5% in the autumn.  With the ban on evictions being lifted, and the ‘Everyone In’ scheme (a plan that gave emergency accommodation to the homeless in the pandemic, saving around 266 lives) having finished, the transmission of Covid-19 is inevitable among those languishing in confined spaces or living on th...