Students were given the opportunity to watch a case of manslaughter by gross negligence and to have a tour of the historic Old Bailey before a question and answer session with the judge.
In Germany, a life sentence is only given for murder or a particularly serious case of manslaughter.
Scenes of mass death, like those caused by fires at night clubs in which the exits are blocked, are often prosecuted as cases of involuntary manslaughter.
Within Islamic law qisas typically relates to cases of murder, manslaughter, or acts involving physical mutilation (such as the loss of limbs) and creates a framework for victims (or their families) to seek retributive justice.
A reconviction was regarded as being "serious" in cases of murder, manslaughter, assault, rape, indecent assault towards adult male, adult female or child, robbery and arson, based on the criteria of Bailey and MacCulloch [ 22].
The judge described the case as "about as bad a case of child manslaughter as there can be".
Mr. Bianchi, the prosecutor, said that Chatham's last homicide occurred in 1990, and that was a case of aggravated manslaughter.
The judge concluded: "In my judgment all those factors make this about as bad a case of child manslaughter as there can be".
"At best, what they have shown the court, and what could possibly go forward to the jury, would be a case of voluntary manslaughter," he said.
The operational logic of our two-tiered, two-faced system was memorably summed up in a great American novel about the gruesome real-world consequences of another case of vehicular manslaughter covered up by a loutish, clueless Ethan Couch of the Jazz Age.
