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Issues of Special Interest Groups

first special interest crusaders Ralph Nader, "Corporations already exercise almost total control over legislatures and regulatory...

Tort Actions and English Law

may also be seen to give the case strength, as injury to a blind person was foreseeable and action had not been taken to protect ...

Tort Reform Arguments Both For and Against

both pain and suffering and punitive damages. Hofmann (2003) believes that the Presidents: "... call for the reform of medical mal...

English Tort Law Questions

case of White and Others (1998) supported a previous case of Dulieu v White and Sons (1901), which stated that where an individual...

An English Law Case Study

to the attention of the reader. Abigail and the Tickets Abigal is the manger of the Room, the theatre that has contracted a st...

Germany, France, and England Overlapping of Tort and Contract

Under English law, a contract does not need to be written to be valid. If an agreement - either a written or oral one - can meet ...

Tort Reform and Medical Malpractice

the implications and recourse citizens have in regard to torts. What determines whether or not an individual seeks tort action an...

English Contract Law and Tort Obligations

for breach of contract or its terms. Third parties were excluded due to both consideration and privity (McKendrick, 2000). It may ...

Tort Law-the Fault Principle

it is and how it is used in order to provide a basis on assessing its weaknesses and faults. The concept of fault is based on th...

Tort Reform and HBO's Hot Coffee

had to undergo numerous skin grafts and almost died because McDonalds was serving coffee at absurdly high temperatures ("Synopsis,...

Tort Reform An Analysis

Tort reform has been bantered about for decades. Court awards for punitive damages, pain, and suffering are...

Pennsylvania's Medical Malpractice Tort Reform

200 percent of the compensatory damages awarded" (Bamonte PG). Currently juries have plenty of room to award large damage claims ...

Employees and United Kingdom's Tort Law

seen in the way the facts are interpreted. If we consider, whilst we are reading this, if the same interpretation would have been ...

Negligence and Tort Law of the United Kingdom

imprisonment can be handed down by the court. The main aim of tort law is to provide a route to gain relief for...

Tort and Economic Loss

duty of care, and that the harm suffered or damage originating from that breach (Card and James, 1998). There is little to ...

The Suitability of the Compensation Approach to Tort Awards

South Australia Asset Management Corporation v York Montague Ltd [1997] AC1 demonstrates the way this can be stretched to cover al...

Issues in Australian Law

The second basis of the appeal was that evidence of an alibi had been excluded by the initial trial judge under s.150 of the Crimi...

Capital Gains and Ordinary Income as They Relate to Australian Tax Issues

usual trading of income creation hen it will be classified as ordinary income. One of or irregular payment are treated as a capita...

Australia's International Arbitration Law and Commercial Arbitration Law

and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Wars (the New York Convention), the UNCITRAL Model Law and the Convention on the Settlement of...

Australian Market and Orkin Pest Control Company's Entrance

Australia Australia is a good place to do business, as it has a "familiar legal and corporate framework," along with few b...

Australian Statistics and Semiotics

of the words and the sentence construction. This is made up of three aspects; the build up of semantic representations, th...

Price Increases, the Australian Investment Property Market, and Concepts of Macroeconomics

the housing market under control. In looking at the impact of investment housing we have to look at the driving factors, what it...

'Medication Shortage' 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

In three pages this paper analyzes an article on shortage of medication from an Australian sociological perspective. There are no...

eSupply Potential of Gazman Menswear

that the management of the supply chain, such as using just in time inventory management may add value as it creates lower costs a...

Terrorism and Security Policies

Seeing a direct impact within the national boarders appears to have influenced the way in which people voted (McLean, 2004). This ...

'Teenager Runs Off with Married Man' 2004 Australian Article from a Sociological Perspective

words, society gives lip service to the negative nature of the act, but really does not take the legal part of it seriously. In ot...

South Korea and Hydrogen Car Introduction

Introduction South Korea is one of the "tigers" of Southeast Asia. It has embraced capitalism and economic growth as has o...

Australia's Internet Child Pornography and Law Enforcement

a pedophile, as such, is not a crime under Australian law, as there is "no common law or statutory definition in Australia of the ...

Student Gambling and a 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

dispute. There were students who lost a lot of money interviewed but there were also students who won or who were able to pace the...

'Economics of Retirement' 2004 Australian Article Sociological Evaluation

provide advice for the reader. It seems that Coates can make some common sense financial moves which includes cashing out her equi...