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Malicious mischief is an offence against the common law of Scotland.It does not require actual damage to property for the offence to be committed; financial damage consequential to the act is sufficient, unlike vandalism which requires actual damage to property to form the offence, the latter being defined by section 52 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995.
Some perceive malicious compliance as a tool for effecting change, such as social change, [7] or meeting goals, such as production quotas, even at the expense of efficiency and the organization. [8] Other motivations include office politics, jealousy, revenge on a supervisor, [3] [9] and simply "sticking it to" an organization one is unhappy ...
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Intent is defined in English law by the ruling in R v Mohan [1976] QB 1 as "the decision to bring about a prohibited consequence" (malum prohibitum). [1] [2] [3]A range of words represents shades of intent in criminal laws around the world.
Malicious prosecution is a common law intentional tort.Like the tort of abuse of process, its elements include (1) intentionally (and maliciously) instituting and pursuing (or causing to be instituted or pursued) a legal action (civil or criminal) that is (2) brought without probable cause and (3) dismissed in favor of the victim of the malicious prosecution.
A number of statutory provisions creating offences of damaging specific types of property were consolidated by the Malicious Injuries to Property (England) Act 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 30), which was one of Peel's Acts. This act and a number of subsequent statutes were consolidated by the Malicious Damage Act 1861. [6]
In a June 2006 Microsoft report, [2] the company claimed that the tool had removed 16 million instances of malicious software from 5.7 million of 270 million total unique Windows computers since its release in January 2005. The report also stated that, on average, the tool removes malicious software from 1 in every 311 computers on which it runs.