What is law? [Law and morals]
- Created by: Nicolas Price
- Created on: 18-06-13 22:07
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- What is law?
- Set of rules that govern society.
- Guide + control our actions.
- Twining + Miers defined rules as a general norm mandating or guiding conduct
- Failure to comply leads 2 punishment
- E.g Fine or imprisonment
- Hart suggested the defining characteristic of law is enforceability
- Mandatory compliance
- Written down.
- Formal.
- Universal application of the law.
- Formal process of making, applying + enforcing the law.
- Formal.
- Law does not necessarily uphold moral codes
- E.g up until 1991, **** inside marriage was legal.
- This changed following R v R [1991] HL
- E.g up until 1991, **** inside marriage was legal.
- Made by a known body
- Parliament
- Or Judges- Judicial law making
- Law is agreed
- When it is being made
- Set of rules that govern society.
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