Torts—A tort is a civil action that may be an intentional wrong (e.g., assault, battery, wrongful imprisonment, or defamation) or it may be negligence (e.g., the failure to provide an appropriate level of security in an employee parking lot). Many intentional torts are closely aligned ...
In July 2019, federal prosecutors charged financier Jeffrey Epstein with one count of sex trafficking of a minor and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Here's what you should know about the case.
we are in the same situation as in the case of defamation, which has been a criminal offence in the Criminal Code for almost a hundred and fifty years, where the same or even a more severe penalty can be imposed for defamation in the absence of intent, associated with the same range of...