Sentence examples for mistake of law from inspiring English sources

The case of Jaggard v. Dickinson (1980) held that even a drunken belief will support the defence even though this allows drunkenness to negate basic intent; and Lloyd v. DPP (1992) ruled that a motorist who damages a wheel clamp to free his car, having parked on another's property knowing of the risk of being clamped, does not have a lawful excuse under the Act even if he makes a mistake of law.

In Austria mistake of law is a legal defense.

In such cases mistake of law is increasingly being allowed as a defense, especially under statutes that impose harsh penalties.

In the U.S. the Model Penal Code would allow a defense of mistake of law, but this would rarely include a mistake such as the existence or meaning of the law defining the crime itself.

If the agreements entered into by Kerala are, as suggested by the Supreme Court in oral hearings presently under way, a product of a mistake of law or fact and are therefore invalid, can't Kerala's legislature pass laws to govern its own water resources as permitted under the Constitution?

In November 2014, an appellate court in San Diego County ruled that police made a mistake of law, so the evidence gathered during the stop should be tossed.

A substantial body of opinion would permit mistakes of law to be asserted in defense of criminal charges in such cases, particularly when the defendant has in good faith made reasonable efforts to discover what the law is.

It accepted that the election court has "very limited jurisdiction" (para 32) but also that parliament probably intended that the high court was available to mop up any mistakes of law made by it.

Since Heien, some courts have found mistakes of law by police to be so obvious as to be objectively unreasonable.

Just one year after it had ruled the opposite in another case, the court decided that in light of Heien, mistakes of law by police could now be forgiven, if reasonable.

In a recent decision that blessed police officers' ability to make reasonable "mistakes of law," Sotomayor was the lone dissenter, warning that the ruling could be read as "further eroding the... protection of civil liberties in a context where that protection has already been worn down" -- an apparent nod to the current national conversation around policing.