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Some of the success, though, was not a result of training or experience. If the Hudson River had been choppy and a wing had caught under the water, there would probably have been no survivors. would a sober person of reasonable firmness have responded to the threat by committing the offence? This is not the story of a hero. Sullenberger does not call himself a hero. Nor does his wife. His actions were not voluntary. He did not run into a burning building to save someone.

Where the evidence in the proceedings is sufficient to raise an issue of duress, the burden is on the prosecution to establish to the criminal standard that the defendant did not commit the crime with which he is charged under duress: R v Lynch, above, p. 668. In its Report ‘Legislating the Criminal Code. Offences against the Person and General Principles’ (1993, Law Com. No. 218, Cm 2370, paras 33–34), the Law Commission recommended that a legal burden of proof, on the balance of probabilities, be placed on a defendant to establish a defence of duress. It was not suggested in argument that this was a change which should be made, and there must be real doubt whether it is a change which the House in its judicial capacity could properly make even if persuaded of the merits of doing so. Imposition of a reverse legal burden on the defendant would in any event require very careful consideration. But it must be accepted, as the Law Commission pointed out in para. 33 of this Report, that the defence of duress is peculiarly difficult for the prosecution to investigate and disprove beyond reasonable doubt. As Professor Sir John Smith QC observed in his commentary on R v Cole [1994] Crim LR 582, 584, with reference to the Law Commission proposal, Temporary Admission (tests, goods used to carry out tests, experiments or demonstrations – liable to import, VAT only) your Lordships should hesitate long lest you may be inscribing a charter for terrorists, gang-leaders and kidnappers. (p. 688). When the movie Sully opens in theaters today, Tom Hanks will stand in as the eponymous hero whose 2009 splash-landing in the river—aka the “Miracle on the Hudson”—turned US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger into an instant celebrity. Directed by Clint Eastwood, it has all the elements of a gripping story: a terrifying near-disaster, in which everyone mercifully survives.

Inward Processing (suspension) (Outward Processing Relief/outward processing textiles/triangulation, goods imported from) I watched on TV in amazement as Capt Sullenberger and his crew executed the most spectacular emergency landing possible and then evacuated all their passengers safely in the heart of New York. There has been some interesting historical legal research as to how extensive the use of the mercy prerogative was. While an awful lot of people were sentenced to death in the 18th and 19th century, it was quite common practice to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. Morrow also retitled the book Sully—the movie’s title—and brought it out on the day the movie was released.

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew.i) he foresaw (or possibly should have foreseen) the risk of being subjected to any compulsion by threats of violence, or Temporary Admission (pallets (use only where C88 requested by customs) – VAT only (use only where C88 requested by customs))

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