Direct Action Everywhere’s Zoe Rosenberg actually created a more dangerous situation when she allegedly entered a Petaluma ...

Under a necessity defense, for example, property may be destroyed to prevent the spread of a fire or a speed limit may be violated in pursuing a suspected criminal.

Can you break the law to stop climate change … and get away with it? That’s exactly what five climate change activists wanted to argue at a recent criminal trial in Seattle, Washington.

The law may sometimes be wrong pre-fixing presumptive rules of conduct; but ‘necessity’ is always right dealing only with the ‘here-and-now’. It is –as the Hausas would say- ‘sha yanzu ...

Criminal law recognizes necessity as a justification or excuse against a criminal charge. In essence, the defendant argues that his actions were necessary to avoid a greater harm.

House of Representatives is invoking the doctrine of necessity to undo a merged court that was itself created under the same doctrine The House of Representatives may reactivate Cyprus’ Supreme ...

Minnesota requires law enforcement to report unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) usage, enhancing transparency and privacy.

“This reinvigoration of canon law is a welcome necessity to our member canonists’ work on behalf of the Church and will be, as the Holy Father says, an instrument for the good of souls ...

Justice George held that Section 113 of the Criminal Law (Offences) Act, Chapter 8:01, which criminalizes defamatory libel, violates Article 146 of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of ...

Coleridge said that if necessity was allowed as a defence for serious crimes, this principal “might be made the legal cloak for unbridled passion and atrocious crime.” The two sailors were ...