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Section 17 – Impeding a person endeavouring to save himself or another from shipwreck. Shipping was the lifeblood of the Empire, thus, specific offences to protect seamen were common. Wounding and grievous bodily harm. The offences under sections 18 and 20 of this Act are discussed in detail in the article grievous bodily harm.
This case was part of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's work with the ACLU Women's Rights Project. [2]An Oklahoma statute prohibiting the sale of "nonintoxicating" 3.2% beer to males under the age of 21 but allowed females over the age of 18 was challenged as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause in the District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma in 1971.
On an indictment under section 18, the jury is open to convict under section 20 or section 47 if properly directed. [ 40 ] "Wounding" and "causing grievous bodily harm" are defined in the same way as they are in the crime of maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
status of a fetus as a person, with implications for women's rights: Supreme Court of Canada: 1991 Rajender v. University of Minnesota: employment discrimination based on sex: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota: 1980 Reed v. Reed: administrating estates cannot discriminate between sexes: Supreme Court of the United ...
Missouri is a Supreme Court case in which it ruled that the exemption on request of women from jury service under Missouri law, resulting in an average of less than 15% women on jury venires in the forum county, violated the "fair-cross-section" requirement of the Sixth Amendment as made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
R v Brown [1993] UKHL 19, [1994] 1 AC 212 [1] is a House of Lords judgment which re-affirmed the conviction of five men for their involvement in consensual unusually severe sadomasochistic sexual acts over a 10-year period.
An assault which is aggravated by the scale of the injuries inflicted may be charged as offences causing "actual bodily harm" (ABH) or, in the severest cases, "grievous bodily harm" (GBH). Assault occasioning actual bodily harm This offence is created by section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100).
This amendment to the law gave women in the workforce additional rights, recognizing the importance of their work. The law saw single women being entitled to a salary similar to that of her male peers working in the same job. The law had one problem though in that married women still required permission from their husbands to accept a job. [171 ...