Detailed Report on Key Laws Summary and Legal Frameworks

This report provides a summary of key laws, focusing on abortion, the death penalty, and assisted dying, referencing the relevant legal frameworks and acts. It begins by outlining the legal context of abortion, referencing the Abortion Act of 1967 and related acts. It then discusses the laws pertaining to the death penalty, including the Crime and Disorder Act and the Human Rights Act, highlighting the legal implications of capital punishment. Finally, the report examines the legal aspects of assisted dying, including the Suicide Act of 1961 and the Coroner and Justice Act of 2009. The report includes references to scholarly articles, books, and online resources to support the information provided.

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SUMMARY OF LAWS
As per National Health Services (NHS) UK on which it has been presented that there will
be serious actions against a person who forces for abortion or abort a foetus. It will be applicable
on the medical practitioners or a person involved in this crime which is equals to murder. It
comprised of acts such as Abortion Act, 1967, Offence against the person Act, 1861 and
Criminal Justice Act, 1945 (Lougarre, 2019). Moreover, there have been creation of further acts
such as Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, 1990 and 2008. These has been presented by
government with reference to balance the sex ratio as well as securing human rights.
Disambiguation of acts related with the death penalty, sentencing, execution and place of
execution to kill a person who have caused serious damages to society. It involves the capital
punishment or ordering the court to punish a person who have harmed society such as mass
killing, murder, rape etc. It involves the acts like Crime and Disorder Act, 1964, Human Rights
Act, 1998 and Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, 1965 (McAuliffe, 2018). Thus, it has
been denoted as Malice Aforethought in consideration of queen and king’s peace as unlawful
killing of a reasonable person (Lewis, 2018). Along with this, in the case of attempt to murder
there will be punishments imposed by of Criminal Attempts Act, 1981.
Relieving a person from suffering pain, injury or any disease from long period to let them
dying by the mutual agreement by relatives and courts (Assisted dying, 2018. Thus, on which
Suicide Act, 1961 as well as Coroner and Justice Act, 2009 will let these people die with legal
consideration (Euthanasia and assisted suicide, 2017).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Lewis, M. K., 2018. A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO. Edited by Gabrielle
Marceau. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press and the World Trade
Organization, 2015. Pp. xxxii, 655. Index. $155. American Journal of International
Law. 112(1). pp.136-142.
Lougarre, C., 2019. Written submission from Dr Claire Lougarre (ANI0024)[Abortion law in
Northern Ireland inquiry].
McAuliffe, D., 2018. Rethinking Values and Ethics in Social Work edited by Richard Hugman
and Jan Carter. 2016: London, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 230 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐45502‐
4. International Journal of Social Welfare. 27(1). pp.101-102.
Online
Assisted dying. 2018. [Online]. Available through :<
https://www.theguardian.com/society/assisted-suicide>.
Euthanasia and assisted suicide. 2017. [Online]. Available through :<
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide/>.
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