http://yoongshin.com Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:06:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Question 5 2009 Zone A In your view what are the principal criticisms that can be made of the present law concerning liability in tort for psychiatric damage? If there were to be a statutory reform of the law in this area, what would be your principal recommendations?   According to Stapleton, ... http://yoongshin.com/2010/04/law-of-tort-question-5-2009-zone-a/   Re Vinogradoff is a case that I find illogical.   In Re Vinogradoff, a war loan stock was transferred into the joint names of the transferor and her granddaughter, who was then 4 years old. Following her death, it was claimed that the child held the stock on resulting trust, ... http://yoongshin.com/2010/04/against-common-sense/   I'm not one who is willing to sacrifice everything for love. There are things that I just won't do, not even for the sake of love. I'm quite a selfish lover, you see.   Esther is obviously very different from me. In the case of Esther Chan Pui Chan v ... http://yoongshin.com/2010/04/how-much-are-you-willing-to-sacrifice-for-love/ It happens all the time: we promise our parents something, and we never ended up carrying out the act which we promised. Sometimes we have a tendency to take our parents for granted... Of course, for trivial things like, "I promise to take out the trash", it is still okay to ... http://yoongshin.com/2010/03/promises/ Just to share a message I received from Kamarul Azwan on Facebook. Advance Tertiary College (ATC), together with University of the West of England (UWE) and Malaysian Inner Temple Alumni Association (MITAA) is organising the Inaugural Tun Azmi Mohamed Law Lecture which will be held on Thursday, 25th March 2010 in ... http://yoongshin.com/2010/03/baroness-elizabeth-butler-sloss-is-coming-to-kl/ I just typed out a new blog post but because something was wrong with the internet connection, I lost it while I was posting. Aaaargh. I should have typed it out on Microsoft Word first. Anyway, allow me to share my answer on a question on law of evidence today. Is it justifiable to ... http://yoongshin.com/2010/03/2007-zone-b-part-a-question-4/ I think R v Cooper is an interesting case. In this case, the defendant was charged with an offence involving the importation of cannabis concealed in a television. One of the evidence concerned were two letters written by the defendant's wife. The letters were found in their room and they were not ... http://yoongshin.com/2010/02/when-your-wife-writes-a-letter/ Both Devlin Report and 11th Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee regarded mistaken identification as the greatest cause of actual or possible wrongful convictions. I thought to myself: that can't be right. The greatest cause should be something like, police fabricating or concocting stories, or other form of abuse of ... http://yoongshin.com/2010/02/turnbull-direction/ In the case of Romanathan Somanathan, the priest was the rapist. This is a case on bad character evidence, but today all I want to do is to share the facts of this case. The appellant was 42 year-old. The victim, W was 30 year-old. Her marriage broke down. She came ... http://yoongshin.com/2010/02/the-priest-the-rapist/ A piece of assignment where I scored 13. Not a "wow-that-was-amazing" mark, but for a subject like Law of trusts where we were frequently told that 1 out of 5 will fail this paper, I suppose I've scored reasonably well for this assignment. 'Although equity will not aid a volunteer, it ... http://yoongshin.com/2010/01/law-of-trusts-2005-zone-a-question-2/