How Laws Change Over Time And From Place To Place

Question 1

Why is it necessary to change laws over time?

Answer 1

Social views are changing

Contribute to progressive society

Question 2

Why do we have new laws today that we didn’t have or need 100 years ago?

Answer 2

Global events to adapt to e.g. COVID 19
Technological advances e.g. E-Crime
Societal views are changing

Question 3

Smoking Laws Timeline

Answer 3

1950’s - Smoking and cigarettes were promoted as being good for your health (as also suggested by doctors)
1960’s - Cigarette ads banned on TV
1970’s - All cigarette packs contained warnings by the government//Health Education Council launched an anti-smoking campaign (‘76)
2007 - England goes “smokefree” (Indoor smoking ban, minimum age for purchasing tobacco goes from 16 to 18, picture warning on cigarette packs)
2015 - smoking is banned in cars with children in them

Question 4

Anti-Smoking Campaigns

Answer 4

Smokefree 2030
Stoptober
Quit Smoking NHS
Breathe Easier
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)

Question 5

Double Jeopardy Law explanation

Answer 5

Criminals couldn’t be trialled twice for the same crime (even if new evidence was found)

Question 6

Name of the Act that ammended the Double Jeopardy Law

Answer 6

Criminal Justice Act (2003)

Question 7

Ann Ming’s Campaign - actions and consequences

Answer 7

Ann Ming, Julie Hogg’s mother, campaigned for the Double Jeopardy Law to change
In 2005 it was removed
In 2006 Dunlop received a life sentence (convicted with murder)
The campaign helped families get justice
Since 2006, there have been 13 successful retrials including the conviction of the killers of Stephen Lawrence

Question 8

Ann Ming’s Campaign - Context

Answer 8

Julie Hogg murdered in 1989
Billy Dunlop (murderer and ex-boyfriend) acquitted after two failed jury verdicts
He thought he was safe because of Double Jeopardy, so he boasted to a prison officer (whilst serving a sentence for assault) about killing Hogg

Question 9

Death Penalty - UK

Answer 9

In the 18th Century, over 200 crimes could result in the Death Penalty e.g. murder, pickpocketing, shooting rabbits

Question 10

What year was the death penalty abolished in the UK for murder?

Answer 10

1965
Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965

Last execution in the UK - August 1964

Question 11

Following the abolishment of the death penalty for murder, you could still receive the death penalty for this crime in the UK:

Answer 11

“High Treason”

Question 12

In what year was the death penalty completely abolished in the UK?

Answer 12

1998
(Last ever execution in 1964)
(Final execution for treason was in 1946)

Question 13

Ruth Ellis

Answer 13

Last woman to be hanged for murder in 1955
She was a nightclub hostess
She shot her boyfriend on April 10th 1955
She was hanged in July 1955

Question 14

Why do laws differ from Place to Place? With examples

Answer 14

Same crimes can be policed differently in different locations within, or not, the same country

Culture = religion/tradition
Place = geographical location

Cannabis use - different in states of USA, and also different worldwide