History of Poland (1945–1989) of Brezhnev, there could be no peaceful resolution to the situation that developed. The Soviets now expressed a preference for the conflict to be resolved by the Polish authorities, but Poland, according to Karol Modzelewski, was lucky to avoid a carnage of foreign intervention. Others, including the historian Antoni Dudek, feel that there was no sufficient justification for the imposition of martial law that followed. On 13 December 1981, claiming that the country was on the verge of economic and civil breakdown and alleging a danger of Soviet intervention, General Wojciech Jaruzelski began a crack-down on Solidarity. Martial law was
Marital rape immunity in Singapore Sir Matthew Hale in “"The History of the Pleas of the Crown"”, where he stated that a husband cannot be guilty of marital rape against his wife because the latter had irrevocably consented to sexual relations during the marriage. This principle of irrevocable consent was later cited in several English cases as justification for immunity against marital rape. The immunity was eventually imported into Singapore law as part of the English common law by the application of the Application of English Law Act 1993. The marital rape immunity was the subject of legislative amendments in the Penal Code (Amendment) Act