Unit Outline 2013 Faculty of Business‚ Government and Law Legal Systems G 6777 Page 1 of 16 Australian Government Higher Education (CRICOS) Registered Provider number: #00212K This Unit Outline must be read in conjunction with: a) UC Student Guide to Policies‚ which sets out University-wide policies and procedures‚ including information on matters such as plagiarism‚ grade descriptors‚ moderation‚ feedback and deferred exams‚ and is available at (scroll to bottom of page) http://www
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Citation: Babine v. Gilley’s Bronco Shop‚ Inc. District Court of Appeal of Florida‚ First District May 13‚ 1986 Facts: The appellant‚ Michael P. Babine brought suit against Gilley’s Bronco Shop‚ Inc. damages from injuries sustained at Kevin’s West‚ Inc. a nightclub‚ where he was thrown off the mechanical bull “El Toro”. The mechanical bull was sold to Kevin’s from Gilley’s. Gilley’s purchased it from another party. The purpose of the mechanical bull was for training rodeo cowboys. The appellant
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BUSINESS LAW Course Code: MGBLW 10201 Credit Units: 03 No. of hours : 33 Course Objective: The objective of the course is to acquaint the management students with the basic fundamentals of business related laws and to understand its linkages with other fields of management which have significant bearing on business organization Course Contents: Module I: Companies Act‚ 1956 Meaning‚ definition and characteristics
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CHAPTER I Introduction Providing assistance to people to access the justice system is one of the key functions of every welfare state. It is very essential to the State to provide legal assistance to the people who are otherwise unable to access the court and law. The very basic reason behind the incorporation and establishing of this idea is that no one would have been denied justice due to his poverty or economical backwardness. India attained the independence and became a republic by adopting
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assignment‚ I have been asked to discuss the following statement “Mergers and acquisitions can be value destroyers or value creators”. A merger can be defined as when two equal businesses in terms of profit margin and status‚ combine in order to become one legal entity. Initially‚ the fundamental reason for this merge is to produce a company that is worth more than the sum of its parts. An acquisition is where one company acquires a controlling interest in another company. The combination of these unequal
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Legal Writing Arisleyda Bonetti Kaplan University CM107 Legal Writing Perfecting legal writing will help create a better understanding of the law and to become a good lawyer. A good lawyer is considered one that can win a case without working as hard as their counterpart in the courtroom. Legal writing is found to be the best way a person presenting a case accomplishes a resolution in the writers favor. The legal writing process has some basic principles that a person has to fallow. The person
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Conflict Kris Stephens BUS 5903 Conflict Resolution Dr. Jacqueline Gilliard Kstephens1@twu.edu August 22‚ 2010 Executive Summary British Petroleum (BP) is one of the largest oil companies in the world. They have recently been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons after suffering a record breaking oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Tony Hayward‚ former CEO‚ has been criticized for his handling
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Unit 5.5: The Separate Entity Doctrine “It is a basic doctrine of company law: that for certain purposes a company is a legal entity separate from the legal persons who became associated for its formation or who are now its members and directors. For certain purposes‚ there is a corporate screen around the members and directors. This is often referred as to the ‘Veil of Incorporation.’ The authority for that proposition is the leading case of Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd [1897] AC 22. The
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ANALYSIS The principle of Separate Legal Entity has stood the test of time because it aims at giving the company a certain practical utility. The separate personality of a company as distinct from its shareholders and this was established by the House of Lords in Salomon v Salomon & Co [1897]. This led to the veil of incorporation; that a registered company is a legal person separate from its members . By separating the management from the investment‚ a company enables the investing public to have
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Legal Publishing and Database Protection by TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 2 Litigation and Consolidation 3 I. A Brief History 3 II. The First Big Challenge: Mead Data Central v. West Publishing Co. 4 III. The Tide Turns: Feist and Industry Consolidation 4 IV. Thomson Buys Legal Publishers‚ Prompts Antitrust Investigation 6 V. Industry Litigation Spreads: The Bender‚ Hyperlaw and Oasis Cases 7 VI. The Industry after Bender: Legal Publishers
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