Legally Stressed

Nuisance is a common law tort with two strands: private nuisance and public nuisance. I will only be considering private nuisance here...

The tort of passing off is when one business or individual misrepresents or 'passes off' their goods or services as if they were the...

Diminished responsibility, since its inception, has been criticised extensively due to the underlying theoretical principles as well as...

'Democratic deficit' is the term used by those who consider the EU institutions and their decision-making processes suffer from a lack of...

Co-ownership occurs when two or more persons owns the same piece of property concurrently. The term 'tenancy' is something of a misnomer...

Murder in Ireland is covered by section 4 of the Criminal Law Act [1964] with section 4(2) stating that a person is presumed to have...

Vicarious liability is a test, Claire McIvor notes, grounded in policy-driven analysis and "loosely focused on a theory of enterprise...

The doctrine of judicial review exists to challenge a piece of secondary legislation as being ultra vires or outside the power of the...

Adverse possession is a legal term commonly known as 'squatter's rights.' A successful claim of adverse possession can essentially...

Courts perform balancing-acts of the law everyday, it is one of the most fundamental elements of law. In the constructions of wills, it...

From USA to UK: thoughts on the doctrine If you are like me and are obsessed with court room dramas and true crime documentaries, you...

Firstly, I want to start with reference to the two constitutional rights which act as underpinning conflicts in the tort of defamation....

Unfortunately, it would be naive to assume that the principles governing the protection of fundamental rights in European Union law were...

We have all heard the common phrase 'finders keepers, losers weepers,' and have no doubt used this as a defence ourselves at a young age....