CRIMINAL LAW

Criminal Law

Criminal Law

Introduction

The paper shall help us cover and identifying key accounts and processions that have been undertaken for the purpose and objective of making significant amends in alignment of justifying the accounts of theft and all the associations related to this activity.

Defining Theft

Theft implies an illegal practice where money, jewellery or any personal possession or belonging has been seized, taken or stolen by another person without the consent of the person to whom all those particular artefacts belong.

House of Lords: R v Hinks

The appellant, Miss Hinks, was a friend of John Dolphin who had a low IQ. In the period April to November 1996 Mr. Dolphin withdrew sums totaling around £60,000 from his building society account and these sums were deposited in the appellant's account. During the summer of that year Mr. Dolphin made withdrawals of the maximum permissible sum of £300 almost every day. Towards the end of this period Mr. Dolphin had lost most of his savings and moneys inherited from his father (Brown, 1903, 391-409).

The ferocious debate in the United Kingdom during 1998 and 1999 and later over deployment of genetically modified plants reinforced the message, and this was driven home in a report from the House of Lords in 2000. With the help of a major private donation, the society launched its Science in Society program. The leitmotif was now not so much public understanding as public engagement, not one-way explaining but two-way dialogue. Science communication got more complicated(Cass, 1992, 1107).

Public understanding in what may be called the classic sense remains important. It is a substantial element in the Royal Society's overall work program and the focus of a big effort involving all the media of mass communication, including the museum world. The society's work on science communication also strongly embraces the public dialogue strand. The two meet different needs in different contexts. In particular, the society sees public dialogue as relevant to its work in influencing public policy in those situations where there is strong public interest in the issue under discussion. Projects on the use of depleted uranium, foot and mouth disease, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology all show how public dialogue can, and must, contribute to the policy process—sometimes with surprising results. Its 2004 nanotechnology report was widely recognized as a model of how to blend public dialogue into independent science policy advice (Dine, 1998, 245-59).

So the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy, sees communication as central to its work: communication among different scientists (and among different generations of scientists, for that matter); communication between scientists and nonscientists; communication between scientists and policymakers; and communication between scientists and the media. As one of the world's most active and influential national academies of science, it cannot do otherwise (Fraser of Tullybelton, 1988, 26-40).

Whether the acquisition of an indefeasible title to property (i.e. a good title to property, rather than one which is void or voidable) is capable of amounting to an appropriation of property belonging to another for ...