The Law of Contract Voidable Contract – Coercion The word “contract” can be defined as a voluntary‚ deliberate‚ and legally binding agreement between two or more competent parties. Contracts are usually written but may be spoken or implied‚ and generally have to do with employment‚ sale or lease‚ or tenancy. A contractual relationship is evidenced by an offer‚ acceptance of the offer‚ intention to create legal relations‚ consideration‚ certainty and capacity. However‚ while all parties may expect
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Essay Question: Critically evaluate the differences in the representation of terrorists and terrorism before and after 9/11. The representation of terrorists and terrorism can be said to have changed significantly since the attacks on the United States of America on September 11th 2001. On this day‚ referred to as 9/11‚ Islamist extremists hijacked four aeroplanes that were flying above the United States. The hijackers intentionally flew two of these planes
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Understanding Moral Understanding Throughout time there has always been this nagging question of what is right and what is wrong. As of yet‚ there is no universal agreement on the correct answer to that question‚ which leads to wondering: how do we even begin to make the decision of morals and where do they come from? Are morals imbedded in us from birth or are they programmed into us through life‚ nature verses nurture? According to psychology moral understanding is a process. No one starts
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The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between culture and the clinical practice of psychological assessment. Over the past decade‚ psychologists have come under criticism for maintaining a mainstream cultural status quo in clinical practice. In particular‚ indigenous peoples throughout the world have pointed out that clinical psychologists‚ in both research and practice‚ have not successfully been able to understand or deliver culturally appropriate services due to Psychology’s
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aims at explaining the state of industrial conflict in Singapore presently. An employment relation is the relationship between managers and employees in an organisation which is usually informal – for example‚ between supervisors and subordinates. At the industrial level‚ the relationship between the management of an organisation and its union is more formal and referred as industrial relation which is a subset of employment relations (Tan‚ 2007). Industrial conflict is the total range of behaviour
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EMPLOYMENT ISSUES The Workplace Types of Employment Employee – Someone who works for another or for an organisation and is paid with a wage or salary Employer – A person who organisation who hires others (employees) to work for them and pays them Self-employed – Those who operate their own business and sell goods or provide services Casual Employment – When an employee works irregularly for an indefinite period of time and is paid on an hourly basis Part-time Employment – When an employee
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Aristotle states that utility friendships are the ones with the most complaints (1162b5). To me‚ this is one of the most important topics Aristotle has stated so far. I had a friendship in high school which I can now define as a utility friendship. We both used each other just for the fact that we could benefit off of one another. She gave me rides places and I gave her someone who she could vent to about all of her problems in life. When one of us could not help the other‚ one would complain because
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A contract of employment is a category of contract used in labour law to attribute right and responsibilities between parties to a bargain. On the one end stands an "employee" who is "employed" by an "employer". It has arisen out of the old master-servant law‚ used before the 20th century. Put generally‚ the contract of employment denotes a relationship of economic dependence and social subordination. In the words of the influential labour lawyer Sir Otto Kahn-Freund‚ "The relation between an employer
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JODHAA AKBAR (Hindi‚ 2008‚ 209 minutes) Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker Produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Ashutosh Gowariker Story: Haidar Ali; screenplay: Haidar Ali and Ashutosh Gowariker; dialogues: K. P. Saxena; lyrics: Javed Akhtar; music: A. R. Rahman; cinematography: Kiiran Deohans; production design: Nitin Chandrakant Desai; costume design: Neeta Lulla Ashutosh Gowariker’s sumptuous tribute to the Mughal Empire at the height of its culturally-syncretic glory unfolds with the leisurely
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ENFORCEMENT OF ISLAMIC CONTRACTS: ISSUES IN THE LIGHT OF CONTEMPORARY LEGAL FRAME WORK. PREPARED BY AMIRUDEEN BIN HAMID SULTAN [LLB (HONS)‚ LPC] INTRODUCTION Historically‚ contracts are the applied practices that have been adopted by the human being from the very beginning of the human history for their physical survival in this natural world. The Islamic contracts basically adopted these pre-islamic concepts of contract. However what Islam innovated was prohibition of Riba‚ prohibition
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