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Overview of Share Differences and the Rights of Shareholders

on the issue yielding a fixed rate of interest for the investment. If an investor is looking for an investment by way...

Interpretation of the 1967 Abortion Act and the 1981 Case of Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v. DHSS

a criminal action. The case was brought to clarify this, and the key element was the interpretation of the law by the judges....

Trials and Evidence of Previous Convictions

(BBC News, 2002, Wadham, 2002).It has also been argued that with falling rating the government want to increase the conviction rat...

Privity Doctrine Developments

looking at privity consideration also needs to be examined. The traditional definition of consideration can be found in th...

Marriage and Changing its Legal Definition

marrying. This would indicate that they are either not capable of making the same commitments, or that there is an inherent wrongn...

System of Electronic Voting and UK Law

as voters as well as the clerks and election officials. This was an easier system to set up than that of Florida, however, as a pa...

Copyright Protection of Literary Works

the written word, either as a creative work or as a study (Lefevere, 1992). Under the 1988 a literary work has a broader definitio...

Family Holiday Mishaps and Laws of the United Kingdom

English law such as the Sales of Goods Act are examined in this paper that considers a family's misadventures while on holiday con...

Is an Employment Contract Enough?

relationship. This ranges from the ability of the courts to imply terms into the contract, through to mandatory aspects enshrined ...

Should Government Intervene in the Employment Contract?

If the nature of the contract is personal, and individual are free to enter and leave the contract then it is also possible to arg...

Human Rights Act of 1998 and the Sovereignty of Parliament

in law, unless there is an express and specific words that allow for human rights to be undermined. However, this case was heard b...

Critical Legal Studies and Whether or Not They are Outdated

or continual acceptance of the status quo (Berger and Luckmann, 1967). In many ways the artificial reality caused by this phenomen...

Partial Debt Payment and the Role of Promissory Estoppel

to this, for example, in Pinnels Case (1602) 5 Co Rep 117a it was found that where the payment of part of a debt was at the credit...

Scottish and English Housing Rights

the concept of the right to housing has emerged in different international conventions. One of the most basic is that if that of A...

UK Doctrine of Insurable Interest

that may or may not happen)". (Oxford Dictionary of Law, 2003). Case law has also sought to dine insurance and cases such...

Greece and Insurable Interest

FOB are given uniform definition and the responsibilities of each party, such as insurance, are clearly outlined (Incoterms, 2004)...

Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy and the Concept of Rights

the issue of rights we may start with the theoretical foundation of the role that rights and the way these are seen in terms of e...

The Late Delivery of Damaged Goods Purchased Under a FOB Contract

bring English law onto the same level as international law and international jurisdictions (White and Bradgate, 1993). In...

Cohabiting Couples; Establishing a Beneficial Interest

these is a resulting trust. If the former partner is seen to have made a contribution to the purchase of the property or assets, e...

The Validity of Bequests In a Will

to the trust and trustees, this is not vital, as even directing one party to hold it for another may be sufficient, as seen with t...

Is EU Directive 95/46/ EC an Effective Model for Future Data Protection

EU Directive 95/46/ EC concerning data protection has the main aim of protecting the privacy of the citizens. This 16 page paper c...

Difficulties in Constructing Robust Legislation to Impose Enforceable Health and Safety Duties on Directors of UK Companies

a particular person responsible especially when the company also has a legal identity and can be seen as a defendant. However, alt...

Appealing Against an Unfair Statute or Unfair Implementation of a Statute

This 9 page paper looks at a fictitious statute which has been applied unfairly by a commission set up under the act. The writer c...

Sperm or Egg Donation and Children's Rights

In five pages this paper discusses English law with regard to the rights of children who have been conceived via egg or sperm dona...

Agency Law Case Study

Iin a paper consisting of nine pages and pertaining to English law in the formation of agencies as a result of implied or express ...

Will Bequests and Charitable Trusts

In eight pages English law is considered in an examination of charitable trusts and how clauses should be interpreted if this stat...

UK Law and Duty to Care

of the plaintiffs, and subsequently there were appeals that went to the ECJ as the case of Z v UK which appear to indicate that th...

Scotland, England, and Lease Renewal

this examination the English law surrounding the renewal of leases will be consider fist and then an examination of Scottish law w...

Press Freedom and Libel

they protested against the Iraq war at the beginning of 2003, when Iraqis did not have that right. However, common sense would dic...

Case Study on CIF Contract and International Contract Requirements

also be seen as the natural forum. Where there is a dispute jurisdiction will become an important issue. Even where this is stat...