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This isn't new. If I fire a gun near the English/Scottish border and kill someone on the other side, I will be tried under the laws of the other side, as althou
by gsnedders 14y ago
This isn't new. If I fire a gun near the English/Scottish border and kill someone on the other side, I will be tried under the laws of the other side, as although I fired the gun in, say, England, the murder is considered to be a Scottish matter. (Of course, in this example, I'll have also committed a firearms offence in England, so could be tried for that under English law!)
- belorn 14y agoThis is because: #The crime of murder is an offense in both countries. #legal jurisdictions can be lawfully transfered. England can thus give legal jurisdictions of the case over to Scotland even if the shot was made inside English border. #International law (pre-EU) puts some legal weight on which nationality the victim comes from when dealing with murders. #EU law has similar international laws as above. #A murder weight much heavier than copyright infringement, and allows for more legal actions on an international level. So to sum up, the reason why a murder at the border of England/Scotland has no similarities to the case of Megaupload, can be seen through the years of legal history and jurisdictions law, common sense, and the fact that Australia and U.S. is not part of one large International body like EU.
- menubar 14y agoSo, can women in the US be charged by other countries for, say for example, not wearing a burka in public? Can they stone my ex-girlfriend for being a slut?
- yebyen 14y agoYou can't even be asked to read the first bullet point you are replying to? #The crime of murder is an offense in both countries.
- Dylan16807 14y agoWell that's the first time I've seen someone say "can't be asked". Is that a regional variant or a minor error or what?
- yebyen 14y agoPolite form of "can't be arsed" which I see more frequently ^_^