BACHELOR OF LAWS DEGREE TRUST LAW DATE OF SUBMISSION: 25/11/2013 QUESTION: Acquisition of property by a fiduciary of his principal is governed by two rules..discuss INTRODUCTION “A fiduciary is a person holding the character of a trustee‚ or a character analogous to that of a trustee‚ in respect to the trust and confidence involved in it and the scrupulous good faith and cador
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category. In Jozwoski’s and Peterson’s report “College Students and Sexual Consent: Unique Insights” they analyze the way college students perceive and respond to sexual advances. They conducted this study by taking 185 college students and asking them a number of open ended questions that provided insight to how they responded to sexual advances‚ how they let their partner know that they are willing to have sex‚ and what ‘sexual consent’ means to them. When examining the answers‚ four themes emerged (Joswoski
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Medical Research With or Without Informed Consent In 1952‚ paralytic polio peaked in the United States with 21‚000 reported cases and numerous deaths. It was in February 1952; Jonas Salk developed the world’s first polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh and by testing it on cultured “HeLa” cells‚ proved it to be effective for distribution by 1955. The cells he used were collected from a poor black tobacco farmer named Henrietta Lacks‚ born August 1st‚ 1920 in Roanoke Virginia. In January
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condition‚ is called murder? Or should doctors be permitted to assist in the ending of a life if it is done with the consent of the patient even if there are clearly issues of suffering‚ terminal illness or quality of life?Are there conditions when doctors‚ caregivers or parents can intervene to end the life and suffering of a loved one even when that person is unable to give consent? In the 5th to 4th century BCE‚ the Hippocratic Oath was written‚ taken by doctors who swear to practice their medicinal
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A Clockwork Orange takes place in a futuristic city governed by a repressive‚ totalitarian super-state. In this society‚ ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive stupor of complacency‚ blind to the insidious growth of a rampant‚ violent youth culture. The protagonist of the story is Alex a fifteen-year-old boy who narrates in a teenage slang‚ which incorporates elements of Russian and Cockney English. Alex leads a small gang of teenage criminals through the streets‚ robbing and beating men and
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of Professional Nurses: Informed Consent Informed consent is used as a safeguard to ensure the patient’s understanding of the care or procedure needed to treat a medical issue. It also ensures the patient’s understanding of any adverse effects that can occur due to the care or procedure needed. Verbal consent is usually obtained at the bedside when discussing what minor procedures or tasks need to be done‚ drawing blood‚ for example. Signed informed consents are mainly used for nonemergent
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violence and placed more of an emphasis in the victim’s testimony regarding consent. Today‚ there is no national rape law in the United States instead‚ each state has its own laws concerning sexual assault. Many states have redefined lack of consent. Some states still require a showing of forcible compulsion or a victim’s incapacity to consent for a conviction‚ others have loosened the rigid resistance requirement and a handful have shifted towards removing force entirely as an element of the crime
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INTRODUCTION The ethical dimensions of code of professional conduct elevate various issues regarding the patients’ autonomy and informed consent in clinical nursing and midwifery practice. This essay is an overview of the patient’s right to accept or decline their treatment as a part of patients’ autonomy in self-decision making. Some issue that faced by the health professionals in refusal of treatment are highlighted. The discussion part deeply argue about the compromised autonomy of patients and
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following; empathy‚ informed consent‚ resilience and continuity of care. These 4 keys words have reflected many times in my previous worked as an assistance nurse with an ACT agent known as Rubies Nursing ACT. In this role‚ I have cared for both moderate and highly mental ill patients at the ageing facilities and in the hospital facilities. However‚ as a nurse it was vital to have applied the central knowledge of the 4keys terms of being an empathy‚ Informed Consent‚ Resilience‚ and Continuity of
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medical information without receiving consent. Although this is a violation of privacy others believe that consent should not be required for medical research because it could lead to a scientific breakthrough therefore it can be deemed as selfish if the person denies consent. However‚ the idea of patient approval does not discourage scientific discoveries‚ informed consent encourages awareness of a person’s medical portion of their life. Consequently informed consent should be mandatory because the
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