Mr Shafron was not a member. Finally‚ Mr Shafron argued that if he was an officer (on either basis)‚ he had‚ in any event‚ not breached his duties in relation to either the ASX issue or the actuarial issue. 2. RELEVANT LAW FOR DECISION MAKING The relevant law relied on by the judge in making the decision was under section 180(1) of the Corporations Act which provides that directors and other officers of a corporation must exercise the powers and duties provided to them with the degree
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false or not – objective test Step 2. Three possibilities of a misrepresentation: 1) It is a term of the contract; 2) It constitutes a collateral contract; 3) Does not acquire contractual status at all. Step 3. Results: 1) Rescission of the contract; 2) Damages in tort (if the tort of deceit or the tort of negligence can be made out) Smith v Lane & House Property Corp This case deals with the situation that a statement of opinion leads to a misrepresentation. Two possibilities: 1)
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Truss Construction Shop is a company that produces cost-effective trusses with the promise of “cutting edge” construction technology. Recently‚ the company experienced a workplace accident that resulted in an employee being seriously injured. It is now the company’s responsibility to investigate how and why this accident occurred and how to prevent it in the future. The accident has created some concerns for employees and customers. The company must now work to ensure the employees’ safety is the
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not change how gender is shaped in the lives of people. Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman believe that gender is not a set of traits‚ nor a role‚ but the product of social doings. They claim that gender itself is constituted through interaction. A case study that demonstrates this is about Agnes‚ a transsexual who was raised as a boy. At age 17 Agnes underwent a sex reassignment operation. Agnes wanted to adapt as a woman‚ in order to do that she needed to learn what it is
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Jan 2009 a V and P entered a standard form contract for sale of property in SYD‚ with special condition that the “sale is subject to P completing the sale of his existing home in Brisbane by 1 June 2009” but no time for completion is specified and clause 29 of 2005 Standard Form is deleted. (Standard Form: completed with in 42 days of existing contract/ exchange of contract? Hence the qtn scenario means it’ll be deleted.) Is there a binding contract for SYD before this BNE condition is fulfilled
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ASPECTS OF CONTRACT LAW 1) A contract by definition is a form of agreement that binds two or more parties who can involve in a legal relationship and will be bound to perform according to the terms and conditions that are agreed upon in the contract. 2) The essential elements of a contract are: Agreement: it is determined by the regulations of offer and acceptance. It is the most essential element and the very first one. An agreement is made when the offerer proposes his offer and the offerree
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Mutual Mistakes in Contract Law 4-3 Mutual Mistakes in Contract Law Southern New Hampshire University Abstract In contractual law‚ a mutual mistake is: “Where a mistake of both parties at the time of contract was made as to a basic assumption on which the contract was made has a material effect on the agreed exchange of performances‚ the contract is voidable by the adversely affected party unless he bears the risk of the mistake under the rule stated in 154.” (Rasmusen‚ 1993) 4-3
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Legal Issues in Management Final Case Study Christine Stout Southern Oregon University Business law – case study The case study of John and Stacey has so many complicated elements that apparently all the stakeholders involved apart from the two mentioned could sue or be sued against. This paper assumes that this is the scenario for this paper. The characters involved are John and Stacy‚ a restaurant owner‚ the owner of a townhouse‚ the owner of the mink on which John tripped and subsequently
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system includes laws that are developed from two sources: common law and statutory law. Common law is created by judges in a court hierarchy‚ using an approach called the doctrine of precedent. Statutory law is law written in parliament by the leaders of the country or state‚ depending on where the power to legislate lies. Both common law and statutory law are components of substantive law‚ which concerns the actual content of law and procedural law‚ which concern the way in which law is constructed
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An exclusion clause is a term in a contract purporting to exclude or restrict the liability of one or more parties to the contract for breach of obligation . Exclusion clauses are controlled by common law and statute. The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (UCTA 1977) and the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (UTCCR 1999) confine the extent to which an individual can exclude or limit his business liability towards consumers. The Office of Fair Trading runs an unfair terms unit which
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