Law What is judicial precedent? It is a judgment of a court of law named as an authority for deciding a similar set of facts; a case‚ which serves as authority for the legal principle represented in its decisions. A judicial precedent is a decision of the court used as a source for future decision-making. Latin terminology Stare Decisis The whole doctrine is based on “stand by what you decide” which promotes fairness‚ consistency and certainty. Simply‚ just stand by your own
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constitutional‚ criminal‚ and civil law. What is the relationship of law enforcement to each of these areas of the law? (Refer to Sorichetti v. City of New York) 2. Civil law means that two private individuals are involved in a lawsuit. The plaintiff is seeking either money‚ property‚ or an injunction from the defendant. The government can also be involved as a plaintiff or a defendant in a civil suit if it is seeking or defending one of those remedies. Criminal laws mean that either the state or federal
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force to defend yourself with when you are being attacked and whether the law should be changed. Should you be allowed to kill someone if they are trying to kill you? Or should you do nothing and let the attacker get away? If we don’t set a proper law‚ reasonable force could be anything up to murder like in 1999‚ the Norfolk famer‚ Tony Martin shot dead an intruder in his home. He was jailed for murder. The uk law on self defence is that anyone can use ‘ reasonable ‘ force to protect themselves
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the Georgia State University MBA program‚ entered into employment with IBM. After working for IBM for three years‚ he was fired. Tim filed suit in a Texas trial court for wrongful termination. The clerk at the court told him that according to state law‚ he must pursue
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Edgel Diane A. Deiparine -2MKB A World without Laws… Imagine a world without any laws. No rules‚ no commands and in fact we only follow rules of our own. Try to think of it. Fun! Isn’t it? Now‚ imagine a world without any laws. No rules‚ no commands and just your rules to be followed. It’s also crazy isn’t it? To have a world without any laws means not only to be free but also to be in a world with chaos. For example‚ the traffic rules‚ Without any traffic rules‚ how can we determine
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Police and the public may have a different outlook of hard-core criminals becoming victims of violence. The police have to remove their bias ways to solve the victim case (Karmen‚ 2013). The police has to follow what is ethical correct. They must think on a level head. On the other hand‚ the police have a duty to serve and protect the community. I believe from a public aspect that they may have a different view then the police. They may not feel any remorse for the criminal. Some may feel like
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Aquinas on Law Aquinas talks about general law. Aquinas has definition of general law: “nothing other than a certain dictate of reason (rationis ordinatio) for the common good‚ made by him who has the care of the community and promulgated." According to Aquinas‚ the law is based on a reason. The purpose of a proper function of the law is to promote common good given out by the person who has a leadership. He talks about four types of law. These laws are eternal law‚ divine law ‚ natural
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BLO 2205 Corporate Law Assignment Semester 1 2013 INTRODUCTION Under the Corporations Act 20011‚ all the directors and officers must be under Common Law duties and Statutory Law duties to exercise their powers in order to carry on one company. It is essential for officers and directors to impose the legal duties for purposes of minimizing wrongful or illegal behaviors’ risks. Briefly‚ the main fiduciary duties and statutory duties contains duty to act in good faith in the interests
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------------------------------------------------- Question 1 Based on the question‚ the issue in the question is will there be a contract of sale of goods act 1895(SA) under s 1? Hence‚ the law is s 1 where a contract of goods is a contract whereby the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property the goods to the buyer for a money consideration based on the case Toby Construction Products Pty Ltd v Computer Bar Sales Pty Ltd. The application is under s1 sale of goods act there is a contract form between me and Mandela where
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IMPROVING AUSTRALIA’S LAW AND JUSTICE FRAMEWORK A discussion paper to explore the scope for reforming Australian contract law 2012 © Commonwealth of Australia 2012 All material presented in this publication is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en) licence. For the avoidance of doubt‚ this means this licence only applies to material as set out in this document.
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