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System Level Interventions, Legislation, & Policy & Environmental Health

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1. Identify a bill in your state House or State. Give the bill number and the chief author of the bill.

2. Brief description of the bill.

3. Identify the personal or professional interest that you have in this bill and state the reason why you would or would not encourage your representative to support this bill.

4. What could you do to advocate for this position?

Local Environmental Health Issue Discussion:

1. Using one of the following resources, identify a public health issue in your community. I encourage you to use one of the first 3 resources but if you need to you can use online resources.

Interview with local official
Local newspaper article
Contact the local environmental group
Online resources or others you may find.
2. Identify the county and state in which you live.

3. What are current local efforts being undertaken to address this issue?

4. Citing course resources, what is the significance of the role of public health nursing in environmental issues? Identify a public health nursing intervention that could be taken locally to address this particular concern (refer to MDH Intervention Wheel).

5. What Healthy People 2030 objective/goal would be addressed with this intervention?

When responding to your peers, compare your community with their community and give a suggestion of another public health nursing intervention that could be taken or identify an agency (other than public health) that could assist the community in addressing the issue.

Climate Change:

1. Identify a recent (within the past 5 years) national or global environmental health outcome that occurred due to climate change.

2. What were the potential/actual causes of climate change that contributed to this environmental health outcome?

3. What were the consequences of climate change on health, the environment, and/or the way we live? Give specific/actual examples related to your specific environmental health outcome.

4. What role may public health nurses take to address the needs of individuals and families at the time of your specified environmental health concern?

5. What are 2 specific actions/roles public health nurses can take to mitigate the long-term impact of climate change on health, healthcare, and/or the environment? What organizations may public health nurses join or collaborate with to address future environmental concerns related to climate change?

System Level Interventions, Legislation, & Policy & Environmental Health

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1. Identify a bill in your state House or State. Give the bill number and the chief author of the bill.

2. Brief description of the bill.

3. Identify the personal or professional interest that you have in this bill and state the reason why you would or would not encourage your representative to support this bill.

4. What could you do to advocate for this position?

Local Environmental Health Issue Discussion:

1. Using one of the following resources, identify a public health issue in your community. I encourage you to use one of the first 3 resources but if you need to you can use online resources.

Interview with local official
Local newspaper article
Contact the local environmental group
Online resources or others you may find.
2. Identify the county and state in which you live.

3. What are current local efforts being undertaken to address this issue?

 

Criminal law

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LL
B CRIMINAL LAW
COURSEWORK
Law School
1
OF 2
LLB CRIMINAL LAW
LEVEL 4
G3
SEMESTER
COURSEWORK QUESTION
LLB (Hons) Programmes
Deadline:
Tuesday 16 August
2016, 2.00 p.m.
Maximum word limit: 2,500
Candidates must answer
both
questions
and submit
them
in one document
. You
should use legal authorities (especially cases and legislation) to support your answers
throughout.
Candidates are expected to adhere to the word limit for each part of the answer. No
unused words from one part are to be used in the other part.
Question 1
Word lim
it: 1,250
The commission of a crim
inal offence usually requires a positive act. Further,
Lord
Denning in
Bratty v Attorney
–
Gene
ral of Northern Ireland [1963]
AC 386 (HL)
stated “
the requirement that it should be a voluntary act is essential…in every crimin
al
case
.
”
However, there are many exceptions to this
legal “
rule
”.
S
ome commentators,
suggest that there are so many exceptions to the “rule”, that it is
,
to some extent, a
fiction.
Explain
the term
‘
omission
’
and
e
valuate the above statement using
decided
cases and academic opinion.
In your answer, outline the
arguments
for and
against imposing criminal liability for omissions.
AND
Question 2
Word limit: 1,250
Tom and Jerry
,
his wife, own a farm
. B
usiness has been
bad
lately and they are
struggling financially.
One day
Jerry suggests that they should refurbish a
barn on
their land
to expand the business.
Tom
is
furious
and
says
to Jerry
;
“You can forget it,
we don’t
have
the money
,
it would be b
etter to burn it down
.”
Tom
leaves to
go
to the
wholesalers to buy animal food.
Jerry
set
s
fire
to the barn, believing that is what Tom wants her to do
.
On arriving
home,
Tom
sees the fire
and
Jerry
standing nearby,
smiling
.
Tom
runs into
the
ir
house,
picks
up Jerry’
s
favourite
china
plates
and says to
her
,
“
What have you done?
I am going to
smash
these
to pieces
!
”
LL
B CRIMINAL LAW
COURSEWORK
Law School
2
OF 2
Je
rry, infuriated, grabs a
spade and ru
ns towards
where Tom has
parked his
truck
,
holds the spade over the truck
and says
;
“go on then, I dare you”.
Tom puts the china
plates back on the table. Jerry starts crying
and
d
rops the spade
.
Later, Emma, their
employee,
arrives for work. Tom and Jerry tell
Emma
that they
cannot afford to
employ her
any more. Emma is
angry
and bitter
at the news.
Emma
goes into the garage, fi
nds a pair of cable cutters and
when no
–
one is looking,
cuts the
brake cable
on Tom’s truck
.
Tom is going to be driving the truck to the farmers market
later that day.
Advise the parties
as to
t
he
i
r criminal liability for criminal damage, if any.

OSCOLA footnote style referencing.
Double spaced.
Font size 12 Arial.
Microsoft word document.
Blank margin one inch on both sides of each page.
Maximum 2,500 words.