Definitions Flashcards
Define discrimination…
Treating someone differently especially because of feelings or prejudices about their sex, race, religion, disability etc.
Define disability…
A person will be disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day to day activities which would include things like using a telephone or going in public transport.
Define ethnocentrism…
The making of judgements about the behaviour and culture of others based on your own culture as the norm; the viewing of others through the eyes of your own culture.
Define gender reassignment…
A person is deemed to have the protective characteristic of gender reassignment if they have undergone, are undergoing, or are proposing to undergo a process or part of a process for the purpose of reassigning the persons sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.
Define passive discrimination…
Where a person witnesses discrimination taking place, disagrees with the discrimination but does not challenge it.
Define credible witness
A person whose evidence is held by the court as trustworthy, no matter how bad the character of that witness may be.
Define hearsay evidence…
Evidence at second hand given by a person who is merely repeating something said by another person.
Define evidence…
Includes all legal means (exclusive of mere argument) which tends to prove or disprove the truth of a subject before the court.
Define production…
Any liquid, animal, document, article, or any other thing which is alleged to have some connection with a crime, offence, or incident under review.
Define breach of the peace…
A crime at common law and is constituted by one or more persons conducting himself or themselves in a riotous or disorderly manner, where such conduct is sever enough to cause alarm to ordinary people, and threaten serious disturbance to the community.
Define culpable and reckless fire raising…
Is committed when a persons property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.
Define robbery
A crime at common law and is committed by a person who feloniously appropriates property by means of violence or threats of violence.
Reset
A crime at common law committed by any person, with intent to deprive the owner, who keeps or receives property, knowing it had been appropriated by theft, embezzlement, or fraud.
Subornation of perjury
A crime at common law and is committed by any person who counsels or induces by any means, a person to give a false testimony in judicial proceedings
Theft
A crime at common law and is the taking and appropriating of property without consent of the rightful owner or lawful authority.
