Acts and omissions revisited.

Acts and omissions: killing and letting die.

Gillon asks what, if any, moral importance resides in the distinction between killing and letting die in the context of medical care. He considers and rejects the acts and omissions doctrine, which claims that actions (killing) resulting in some undesirable end are in general morally worse than failures to act (allowing to die) that have the same result. He also refutes the argument that the ...

The Laws of Borno State of Nigeria define a juvenile delinquent as a child or young person who has violated the 'Children and Young Persons Law'. A 'child' is any person

Young persons or offenders are persons who were less than 18 years old when they committed the alleged offence. In terms of criminal responsibility, juveniles are further classified according to age brackets as follows: (i) Children below the age of 7 years are not criminally responsible for their acts or omissions; (ii) Children between the ages of 7 and 12 years are only liable for their crim...

Acts and Omissions as Positive and Negative Causes

Acts and omissions doctrine and abortion.

Causal authorship and the equality principle: a defence of the acts/omissions distinction in euthanasia.

This paper defends the acts/omissions distinction which underpins the present law on euthanasia, from various criticisms (including from within the judiciary itself), and aims to show that it is supported by fundamental principles. After rejecting arguments that deny the coherence and/or legal relevance of the distinction, the discussion proceeds to focus on the causal relationship between the ...