THE TORT OF NEGLIGENCE - DUTY OF CARE EXISTENCE OF A DUTY Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562‚ • Lord Atkin attempted to lay down a general principle which would cover all the circumstances where the courts had already held that there could be liability for negligence. He said: "The rule that you are to love your neighbour becomes in law‚ you must not injure your neighbour; and the lawyer’s question‚ Who is my neighbour? … You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which
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INSANITY- A DEFENCE TO CRIMINAL LIABILITY (Project towards fulfilment of the assessment in the subject of Crime and Punishment) Submitted By: Submitted To: Praneetha Vasan Mrs. Sreeparvathy BPSc.LLB (Hons) (Faculty of Law) Roll no- 930 National law University‚ Jodhpur. IIIrd Semester National Law University Summer Session
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Contents Introduction………………………..………………………….…... 2 1 The nature of law. ………..……………….………………….. 5 1.1 Historical background……………………………………….. 6 1.2 Trial by jury……..……………………….…………………...7 1.3 Magna Carta…………………………………………………. 8 2 Administration of justice in Britain…………………………...9 2.1 The English law……………………….…………….…………9 3.2 Scots Law……….……………………………………….…. 9 3.3 The Parliament of the United Kingdom………...………….11 3
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Introduction ‘…no proposition can be more clearly established than that a man cannot incur the loss of liberty or property for an offence by a judicial proceeding until he has had a reasonable opportunity of answering the case against him..’ - de Smith[1] According the Salmond‚ the law of procedure may be defined as that branch of the law which governs the process of litigation. It is the law of actions- jus quod ad actions pertinet- using the term action in a wide sense to include all legal proceedings
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State‚ Government and Law 1. State An entity can be regarded as a state if it satisfies the following essentials of statehood 1. Population 2. Territory 3. Government 4. Sovereignty or Supremacy State can be unitary (only one govt. throughout the territory); federal(distribution of powers between central and state governments); monarchy(hereditary king as the ruler); republic(the head of the state is not a monarch but an elected person) etc. The ultimate aim of the state is
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Crim Law and Philos DOI 10.1007/s11572-013-9232-y ORIGINAL PAPER Social Engineering as an Infringement of the Presumption of Innocence: The Case of Corporate Criminality Douglas Husak Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Abstract I examine how deferred-prosecution agreements employed against suspected corporate criminality amount to a form of social engineering that infringes the presumption. I begin with a broad understanding of the presumption itself. Then I offer a brief
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Bitoon Seeds Extract (Barringtonia asiatica) as Potential Antibacterial Agent An Investigatory Project Submitted As Entry to the 2010 Regional Science Fair Jorge Andrew C. Bagaipo Jessa Mae C. Macana Loriel Mari E. Berte Researchers Ma. Edylyn L. Noguerra Adviser ABSTRACT The study entitles “Bitoon seeds Extract (Barringtonia asiatica) as Potential Antibacterial Agent aims that the antibacterial agent of the seeds and determines its inhibitory effect to the growth of
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LWB138 Fundamentals of Torts Notes and Outline (ISAACS) Semester 1‚ 2008 Matthew Robinson Table of Contents Week 1: Introduction to Torts and Causes of Action 3 Purpose of the Law of torts 3 What is a Tort? 3 The Development of Torts 3 The Role of Torts 3 Insurance 4 Persons able to sue and be sued 4 Classifications of Causes of Actions 4 Trespass Actions 4 Actions on the case 5 Options between trespass and action on the case 5 Trespass to person 6 Battery 6 Assault 7 Defences
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enter into a legally enforceable agreement with each other. * Tortuous liability = a tort consists of the breach of duty imposed by the law(negligence‚ trespass) Criminal liability before convicted you have to prove mens rea (guilty mind) and actus reus (prohibited act). Strict liability are wrongful acts where prove of mens
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Title: A Study on Dishonour of Negotiable Instrument with Special Emphasis on laws of Dishonour of Cheque in India Table of Contents Chapter No. | Chapter Title | Page No. | Chapter 1 | Introduction:-Title General IntroductionStatement of the Problem Objective of the StudyHypothesisesResarch Question Scope and Limitation Research MethodologyTentative ChapterizationReview of Literature | 5-9 | Chapter 2 | Meaning of Negotiable Instrument and Dishonour of Negotiable Instrument | 10-12 |
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