The April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit held in Washington drew attention to the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, as well as the need to secure weapon-usable nuclear materials worldwide. [1] As argued by Levi (2008), "the diffusion of technology, the rise of extremist ideology, and the steady spread of nuclear materials conspire to make nuclear terrorism an increasingly worrying prospect". Article Two of the 2005 United Nations International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nucle...
Banker Customer Relationship In the light of a "massive erosion of the principle of confidentiality". In the Banker/ Customer Relationship Review Committee on Banking Services Law (1989) recommended that "the government should not further extend the statutory exceptions to the duty of confidentiality, without taking full account of the consequences for the banker/ customer relationship" Critically discuss how the principles of confidentiality has developed the potential aspect on banker/custo...
The word 'law' has been given many definitions. The higher being is the state and the inferior being is the individual. The sanctions or punishments include imprisonment, fines, damages and injunctions. In our country Malaysia, Federal Constitution declares itself as the supreme law of the Federation. Hence, to put it modestly, law may be defined as a body of rules which are enforced by the state. Furthermore, law save from harm the basic individual rights and freedom such as liberty, equalit...
Law and Legal Systems have always been an important part of every society, moreover, they help us take care of conflicts, punish individuals who violate the law, and solve problems. Our society cannot cope with people behavior, violence and unstoppable desire to have whatever, whenever and wherever. In this case, John Locke said that all people are cruel and they need superior entity to control them and that is why he offered to create a contract called social contract to get peace because so...
The legal profession in the United Kingdom has personalized the political system more than countless years to provide the society the finest law. The legal profession in England and Wales is separated into two different branches: barristers and solicitors. These two different types of lawyers accomplish different purposes while there is an inevitable amount of similarities in their actions. Throughout this essay I shall build up an understanding of both barristers and solicitors, as well as c...
Evidence Law has governed the manner in which the criminal trial is conducted. It does so by regulating the kind of evidence that the court should be admitting, the nature of the said evidence and laid down the manner of appreciating the same. Evidence Law further lays down the rules of presumption the court must follow in terms of the different kinds of evidence and the weight that must be attached to them. The importance of laying down these procedural rules cannot be understated. They prov...
INTRODUCTION The definition of the term industry was not included in the Trade Disputes Act, 1920. The new legislation, Industrial Disputes Act, that came in to existence in the year 1947 had included as section 2(j), the definition of the term industry [1] . The Act while doing, so had borrowed words from the Australian legislation called the Commonwealth Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1904. Section 4 of the Australian Act had defined industry as "any business trade or manufacture and und...
The post Cold War period is generally characterised as a golden era for humanitarian intervention symbolized by successive operations in Kosovo, East Timor, Rwanda and more recently Darfur and Iraq. However, the nature of armed conflict has changed in the 1990s and has led to an increasing insecurity of humanitarian intervention. In addition, states become more and more reluctant to intervene in conflict zones and when they do, they fail to guarantee effectively the protection of humanitarian...
Bhagirath Lal Das is one of the world's leading authorities on the WTO. He was India's ambassador and permanent representative to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Later on, he served as director of international trade programs at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. . During that period he also functioned as Chairman of the GATT Council and of the GATT Contracting Parties. Since his retirement from Indian Administrative Services as secre...
It's a very appreciative step taken by this organization of UN for helping countries torn by conflict and creates conditions worldwide for lasting peace. The first peacekeeping mission was established in 1948 when Security Council authorized the deployment of UN military observers in the middle-east. United Nations peacekeeping operations have traditionally been associated with chapter 6 and a half of the charter. Within this wider context, Peacekeeping operations are consisted with some of c...
