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The Laws Governing Adoption and Child Protection in England

human life; as such, a legal shift in focus took place in order to provide them with more emphasis toward rights over and above pr...

Could the Leaders of Boko Haram be Charged with Crimes Agsinst Humanity?

Boko Haram are an Islamic jihadist organization based in Nigeria who became known for the kidnapping of more than 200 Christian s...

DOE and its Illegal Actions

The United States Department of Energy, in its attempt to prop us a uranium enrichment company that was failing, arranged for enri...

1979's Sale of Goods Act and British Law

Goods Act 1979 requires goods sold by traders to be of satisfactory quality" (Anonymous Representation in the United Kingdom, 2002...

Issues in English Employment Law

entitled to a long notice period or the employee is entitled to a valuable remuneration package (DiscLaw Publishing Ltd, Wrongful,...

Law, Austin, and Hart

Austin has built this particular theory into what he calls "positivism," which is defined as what the law is, or, in more legal te...

1990 Case of the US Supreme Court v. Employment Div., Ore. Department of Human Resources v. Smith, 494 US 872

for ingesting peyote, a hallucinogenic drug. This was not recreational drug use, however, but rather, for sacramental reasons as p...

Australian Courts and Statutory Interpretation

are not necessarily the same words (or meanings) and as a result, the photographer can argue that the purpose of the import was no...

Commercial Contract Law in the UK

dispute as to fact (McKendrick, 2000). At first this may appear to have the potential to be an express term, however, in this case...

Theories of Feminism and Law

at how this can be applied in critiquing the law. If we consider the concept of the law under critical legal studies the approach ...

Food Related Illnesses and California Law

contact surfaces or equipment and code 12275 provides specific examples of acts which are to be prevented in regard to employee ha...

Hindu Society and Women's Roles

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

Reforming Corporate Law and English Company Law Modernization

been tackled (Card et al, 1998). In the recent white paper it is also only this area which has received attention, stating that if...

California Family Code and Property

kicked in. In this way, the value would be calculated for the 10 years prior to the marriage during which the husband owned the pr...

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...

Class Rights Variation and Corporate Control

example, preference shareholders will still usually have the rights to attend meetings, even where voting rights are not held. Thi...

Rights of Third Parties, Privity, and English Contract Law

a contract we can see that this was allowed under Dutton v Poole (1677) 2 Lev 211 (Flannigan, 1987). This is also referred to by D...

Internet Tax Resources

Code Collection Cornell University (2004). Retrieved on October 11, 2004 from http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode2...

Creation and Development of the Equity Law

They litigants would be able to move across the hall from one law court to the Lord Chancerys division to try and get justice when...

Law Choice and Applications in International Commercial Disputes

a decision which is based ion evidence resented to them, and without the use of their own knowledge of a matter (Goode, 2000)....

2 New Proposed Laws

inspection program" that pertains to "breeders, dealers, kennels and shelters with more than 25 dogs" (Seibel, 2007). Inspections ...

Administrator Challenges: Law Enforcement Ethics

who are supposed to uphold this duty are the ones perpetuating the problem, the fine line that already exists between criminality ...

Truck Driving Laws

operate trucks only within a state are "only subject to rules at the state level" ("Why Arent Trucking Laws National in Scope?"). ...

Is There an Incompability Issue Between the European Convention for Human Rights and Adverse Possession?

had abandoned or dispossessed the land. This was seen as legalising the theft of land where an owner did not exercise their rights...

The Debate about Predatory Lending Laws

some examples and the Republican/Democrat dichotomy is a generalization. That said, the model provides a sense of where the people...

Is there an Inherent Bias towards Employers in Unfair Dismissal Law?

this time cases would usually be brought for a breach of contract (Card et al, 2003). Unfair dismissal is first seen in the Indust...

Copyright and Music Streams

when an artists music is played via streaming audio, what is their expectation as far as royalties go? It seems as if royalties ar...

Cyberspace Crimes and the Law

offences and the law has not been able to keep pace with new technology. With law enforcement lagging behind, cyber criminals some...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

Sources of International Law

from being true law (Hart, 1994). He states there is an argument that this cannot be the case as the evolution is different; there...