CASE STUDY

Evidence, Standard and Burden of Proof (3 Cases to talk about)

Evidence, Standard and Burden of Proof (3 Cases to talk about)

Part 1:

This case deals with the illegal sale of alcohol by a grocery store owner who has been prosecuted by the local authority for doing so. The illegal sale of alcohol in private homes, often minors, is a business that lets weekend of net income to each vendor about £4,000. More and more the "houses" also provide delivery service. These shops installed in family housing, are difficult to detect and advertising is based solely on word of mouth and the complicity of neighbors and consumers (Martin, 2010, p. 36-52). The municipality must implement a strategy worthy of a spy film in order to obtain evidence and witnesses to guarantee that a particular home is sold liquor illegally. On the weekend, city inspectors till about 15 different housing violations. So far this year, there were 15 raids positive, with confiscation of goods. "In every neighborhood there are two, three, or at least one of these cases. Especially in neighborhoods that are farther from the center. The operations must be done in very little time to stop when we get to see someone tell the owner of the house, that's one of the many complications that the authorities have to control these illegal sales. Moreover, such illegal sales are also carried out through grocery stores, as is in this case (Martin, 2010, p. 36-52).

A representative inspector of the municipality said that they are accompanied by police; spend several hours waiting "incognito" to register with photographs and videos, when a person buys the drink. Just there, the inspectors can approach the home and notify the landlord of his offense. The strategies of these traders outside the law are mixed. They mostly supported by traders who are buying your license alcoholic beverages in a wholesaler and then resell it. Beer, wine, Fernet already prepared and to a lesser extent white drink pouches are the items most in demand. Beers, the cheapest brand you can buy in a supermarket to a value of 7 to 8 pounds in private homes are sold at prices ranging from 15 to 20 pounds. Many of these illegal traders, the service also offer home delivery, which increases the price of drinks. A bottle of 350 ml Fernet and a liter bottle of Coke, plus the cost of delivery, cost him consume about 75 pounds. "On the weekend, each of these places open from midnight until two or three in the morning, you get net gain between 3,500 and 4,000 pounds," said Torrealday (Ashworth, 2009, p. 78-81).

One of the points of the two initiatives that the Government seeks the adoption of the UK provincial legislature decided to set fines of up to 100,000 pounds and punishable by sentences of 30 days and up to three months imprisonment to the owners of night clubs that sell alcohol to minors or to keep the clubs open at times not allowed by the ...