Sentence examples for valid defence from inspiring English sources
Being drunk is a valid defence.
It is even possible to interpret canon law as claiming that a valid defence for paedophile offences is paedophilia.
And yet, the homosexual sadomasochistic case of R v Brown (1994 concluded that consent is no valid defence to assault.
In other words, 40-year-olds who were terrible in their 20s pose little risk today.The EEOC alleges that BMW and Dollar both used background checks in a manner "not job-related and consistent with business necessity" (generally a valid defence against an accusation of disparate-impact discrimination).
But in the name of national reconciliation and at times under threats of mutiny the new, elected president, Raul Alfonsin, in 1986 had a law passed to limit prosecutions, and in 1987 another that made "obeying orders" a valid defence for those who did face them.
A random sample includes: why the distribution of wet and dry ear wax in humans suggests that the people of South Korea might be the least smelly on earth; why the idea of a Danish Viking conquest of the British Isles involving rape and pillage is not borne out by a genetic legacy; and why monoamine oxidase A, the so-called "warrior gene", ought not to be a valid defence in criminal trials.
Valid defences are those of statutory authority, consent, where it is necessary to interfere with the goods, or jus tertii.
However, researchers at the University of Amsterdam suggest that national security exemptions mean the firms have a valid legal defence.
Both sides agreed that M'Naghten was insane; the question was what constituted a valid legal defence of insanity.
But Tory MP Ben Wallace, a former intelligence worker, questioned whether the newspaper had a valid public interest defence in publishing the Snowden revelations, beyond saying to its readers: "Look at how exciting technology is, look what we can do".
Inglis's lawyers argue that the trial judge was wrong not to let the jury decide whether her defence of provocation was valid.
