Law Notes Legal Foundations (LAWS110) Notes
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The course aims to provide a foundation in the skills of legal research and legal writing together with an academic grounding in topics fundamental to the New Zealand legal system. The course will involve training by way of proactive exercises in legal research and legal writing. It will also examine the historical development of New Zealand's legal system, f...
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The Concept of Law
Law, Function and Morality
Laws 110
The case of the Nazi wife
The case is heard in post war Germany
The defendant is accused of attempted murder for informing the German authorities of the anti-Nazi statements of her husband while home on leave.
Her defence is that she was following the law at the time
She passes on the statements
He is tried in a short trial, sentenced to death
1944, Germany
Eastern Front is collapsing, he is sent back
He lays a criminal case against her of attempted murder
The criminal law had not changed largely due to murder
She was following the law at the time
At the time Nazi law was in place
The Grudge informer cases
The 1938 statute- it was the law at the time
The 1934 Statute
G
He said it in confidence
She made it public
Wasn’t obliged to tell
She reported something that wasn’t a crime
Guilty with intent
NG
If they clash,
Since the law was so repugnant could it be a law
No other option due to a climate of fear
Statues are vague?
Private still treated like public
Nazis- not big on procedural justice
Had to inform on him
~ Work by people dobbing in...
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The notes are from lectures and tutorials for legal foundations from a high achieving student from the lecturer John Hopkins and Sasha.
The course aims to provide a foundation in the skills of legal research and legal writing together with an academic grounding in topics fundamental to the New Zealand legal system. The course will involve training by way of proactive exercises in legal research and legal writing. It will also examine the historical development of New Zealand's legal system, f...
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