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Third Party Computers and Denial of Service Attack

unlikely to be any argument for the case not to go ahead. However it is not always with a relationship, the proximity may be more ...

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...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Australian Public Disturbance Case

as this deal with damage to property during public disorder where property is damaged, but this time it may be purposefully, but i...

Immunization Policy and Australian Nursing

the states and territories rather than the federal government. Currently, six of the eight Australian states and territories requi...

United Group Limited, Woodside Petroleum Limited and Babcock & Brown Limited

to United Group Ltd. As part of the growth there has been a strategy of acquisition, companies acquired which have added r...

Land Law; Property Interests

in the land or title mis-description, in commission or fraud on the Torrens register they can seek to recover damages from the wro...

Blood Oath (Film Analysis)

around the emperor was protected from prosecution. Thus the films main villain, Baron Takahasi, the commander of the Ambon camp an...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...

Race, Ethnicity & Inequality in Australia

was purchased, in Australia, a totally different land and colonization policy was pursued. This was due primarily to the fact that...

Lend Lease Case Study; Improving Organization

undertake these high type of projects, it is a real estate company undertaking a broad range of projects, such as the mega-project...

McKinnon v. Secretary, Department of Treasury (2006) 229 ALR 187

will have little to do and give the holder f the information seeking to use the exception the ability to do this as long as the co...

Mabo and Others V. Queensland (No. 2) [1992] HCA 23

of the jurisdiction of the courts with the passing of the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act in 1985. This act made a declar...

Trial Techniques

where to go to find information. The authors also consider what they call the "trial notebook," which is a means to organize "tr...

Freedom of Information Act in Australia

Applications must be filled out and the relevant application fees and processing charges must be paid unless such fees are waived ...

Overpopulation and the Australian Lifestyle

laws try to prevent discrimination on the basis of race, gender and marital status. In Australia, people think of themselves as be...