proceeding in parliament is not public authority except the house of hordes in king land in its judicial capacity.3 The case of R. V. City Panel on Takeover and Mergers ex parte Data Fin ltd‚ 4 the court ruled that although the city panel had no statutory or other legal source of power‚ it was never the less subject to judicial review on the basis that if the panel did not exist‚ its function would have been undertaken by a government department. -------------------------------------------------
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shares a state of citizenship with any defendant. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a). Diversity jurisdiction is one of the two main types of subject-matter jurisdiction in federal court. Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary The power of the federal courts to decide civil disputes between citizens of different states‚ provided the amount the plaintiff seeks in damages exceeds an amount set by Congress (currently $75‚000). The so-called citizens may include companies incorporated or doing business
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Tort law appears to discriminate between different types of defendant’s such as public entities‚ rescuers‚ children‚ manufacturers‚ etc. when establishing a duty of care and to whom. This is because the law of torts is a specialized area of the law that seeks to account for damages in a civil setting that may occur because of a breach of that duty. Further‚ much of tort law has been developed randomly‚ many times to fill in gaps that exist in the law‚ and at other times‚ it is influenced by public
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Kamal McPherson Cape Law Evaluate the rules of interpretation which guides judge’s in the interpretation of statutes or acts of Parliament and the presumption they applied in this process. To gain an explicit and profound competence of statutory interpretation and rules of statutory interpretation‚ they are few key elements and definition that must be referred to these concepts. Statutory interpretation is a source of law‚ which means‚ where laws are taken from to aid in the decision making
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Law of India refers to the system of law in modern India. Some of contemporary Indian law shows substantial European and American influence. Various legislations first introduced by the British are still in effect in modified forms today. During the drafting of the Indian Constitution‚ laws from Ireland‚ the United States‚ Britain‚ and France were synthesised into a refined set of Indian laws. Indian laws also adhere to the United Nations guidelines on human rights law and the environmental law.
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Different aspects of law There are four aspect of law namely: 1. Public and private law: Public laws are those laws that are relevant to matters affecting the entire community for examples laws about criminal activity or the environment. Public law involves interrelationship between the state and the general population. While private law involves interactions between private citizens or it applies to the relationship between an individual and the government. 2. Criminal and civil law: Criminal is a
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English tort law English tort law concerns civil wrongs‚ as distinguished from criminal wrongs‚ in the law of England and Wales. Some wrongs are the concern of the state‚ and so the police can enforce the law on the wrongdoers in court – in a criminal case. A tort is not enforced by the police‚ and it is a civil action taken by one citizen against another‚ and tried in a court in front of a judge (only rarely‚ in certain cases of defamation‚ with a jury). Tort derives from middle English for
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Assignment Legal Studies ‘Law of Defamation’ Tutor: $%£@%^^$@@ Student: £^£@@$^@$^^%%£ Class: $£%&*@*((@&^ Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 Terms of Reference 3 Methodology 4 Findings 5 Section 1. 5 The Law of Tort 5 The Law of Defamation 7 Section 2 8 Criteria for establishment of a case of a defamation 8 Section 3 10 The Defamation Act 2009 V The Defamation Act 1961 10 Section 4 12 Analysing of Defamation Case 12 Bibliography 16
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FORMALITIES Common law has no form requirements for contracts: oral contracts are enforceable Consequences of failure of complying with formal requirements vary from statute to statute but include penalties‚ fines and civil consequences ie. Non-enforceability of contract Legislation imposes formal requirements for certain types of contract (this goes beyond the common law) ; e.g.: Consumer credit (has to have warnings‚ and writing) Sale of motor vehicle (needs written work of purchasing car
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Assuming Susan adopts a company structure‚ what type of Liability Company should Susan adopt? Relevant Laws: Form of association: • Consider the possible form of association‚ corporate and non-corporate • Consider comparative advantages and disadvantages of each form of association in the light of facts given. • Remember that there can be many relevant factors‚ not all of them related to corporate law issues. Taxation stamp duty and human factors can also be important. Application In this case‚ Mary
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