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English Tort Law and the Fault Principle

London Electricity Board (1965) cannot be seen as having an intention to create harm. This leads to the presence of fault through...

Business Operations' Criminal and Tort Liability Identification and Assessment

is safe from a clients legal right to sue. What is negligence, and why is it such a significant basis for judicial interjection? ...

Issues of Special Interest Groups

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

Proposed Tort Reform

significant (Albert, 2004). As indicated by the position of the ATLA (1994), "defensive medicine" refers to tests or procedures th...

Five Questions on Medical Law

himself to be placed in charge of Thompsons case, he assumed the responsibility of having all adequate medical knowledge to pursue...

Racial Equality and Tort Law

case, Buchanan had entered into an agreement to purchase a city residential lot, and to pay for it only if he were able to success...

Alumina Case Study

is exacerbated by the previous lawsuit, which occurred five years earlier, in which Alumina was found to be in violation of enviro...

Property, Contract and Tort Law

judicial interjection? Clearly, those such as medical professionals uphold certain responsibilities when it comes to their practi...

Religion and Issues of Privacy

lawsuit, the disclosure must be public, that is, disclosure to a limited number of people or to those who have a legitimate need t...

14 Essay Questions on the Law

Filming his mothers death could be seen as a decision driven by profit motive. Broadcast of the event on television or on the Int...

Post Train Crash Liability

The first aspect is to consider if a tort has occurred in the accident. to proceed we need to ensure that it is recognised for any...

Different English Law Areas and Court Jurisdiction

laid down by legislation only. Land law appears complex in the way it is put together and the number of different courts or tribun...

Medical Practices and the Effects of Malpractice

hopefully - ultimately - reduce malpractice premiums. In its most basic form, the medical malpractice liability system has ...

Liability and Tort Law

After working more than one consecutive shift, Matt was tired, left work and lost control of his vehicle, causing injury to himsel...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Facts and Findings in the Alice ‘Lindy’ Chamberlain Case

* Adjacent to and on a coin on the floor well under the front passenger seat; * A flow of blood on the hinge of the right...

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...