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    Vicarious Liability

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    IABILITY 1 A THEORY OF VICARIOU S LIABILITY J.W . N EYERS * This article proposes a theory of vicarious liability which attempts to explain the central features and limitations of the doctrine. The main premise of the article is that the common law should continue to impose vicarious liability because it can co-exist with the current tort law regime that imposes liability for fault. The author lays out the central features of the doctrine of vicarious liability and examines why the leading rationales

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    Strict Liability

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    Strict Liability “The law presumes that mens rea is always required in criminal offences‚ unless it is clear that Parliament intended an offence to be one of strict liability”. Discuss. (25marks) The general principle of criminal law is that the prosecution must establish the presence of both actus reus and mens rea. As the majority of criminal offences are created by statute‚ Parliament will usually indicate the kind of mens rea required

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    Nursing Liability

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    Nursing Liability The American Nurse Association provides guidelines and policies for standards of care and scope of practice; they are listed in the Nurse Practice act. While hospital policies may vary from facility to facility it is the Nurse Practice Act that guides and dictates the standards by which nurse perform their duties and are held liable. Nurse have the legal duty of adhering to the standards of care whenever they are taking care of patients‚ when they fail to perform to these standard

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    Limites liability

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    Draft Limited Liability‚ Rights of Control and the Problem of Corporate Irresponsibility Paddy Ireland Abstract There is has long been a tendency to see the corporate legal form as presently constituted as economically determined‚ as the more or less inevitable product of the demands of advanced technology and economic efficiency. Through an examination of its historical emergence‚ focusing in particular on the introduction of general limited liability and the development of the modern

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    Contingent Liability

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    Contingent Liability 1. Analyze why a company would prefer not to disclose its contingent liabilities. In order to understand why a company would or would not disclose his contingent liabilities it is important to know exactly what a contingent liability is. As I have learned throughout all of my accounting studies a liability is simply an obligation or debt that a business owes to an individual or an organization. Now there are many liabilities that include services‚ payroll‚ notes‚ and

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    Vicarious Liability

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    Vicarious Liability‚ what is it? Vicarious commitment insinuates a condition where a business is considered responsible for the exercises or rejections of their specialists. In a workplace situation‚ a business can be held at danger for the exhibitions or prohibitions of its employee’s‚ whether it can be shown that the offenses happened over the range of their occupation. A case when a business can be held vicariously at risk cases can join exhibits of tormenting behavior‚ bullying‚ mercilessness

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    Liability for Omissions

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    Liability for Omissions The law has historically been reluctant to impose a general liability for omissions as opposed to positive acts. This means that there is no general duty of care in tort to act in order to prevent harm occurring to another. In Smith v Littlewoods Organisation‚ Lord Goff stated clearly that “the common law does not impose liability for what are called pure omissions”. Similarly‚ in Yuen Kun Yeu v A-G of Hong Kong‚ Lord Keith stated that people can ignore their moral responsibilities

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    Professional Liability

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    Professional Regulation and Criminal Liability Many natures of complaints occur throughout the health care workforce. Because of the dramatic changes in how health care is delivered over the past few years‚ consumer concerns about liability issues have increased. Patients put their physical health and trust in the hands of health care providers daily. Unfortunately‚ there have been periods when the treatment provided‚ has been accidental or intentional and caused physician harm to the patient.

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    Contingent Liabilities

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    Contingent liabilities are possible future liabilities that will only become certain on the occurrence of some future events. A contingent liability is less certain than a provision‚ the latter is expected to recognize; however‚ a contingent liability might occur. An entity shall not recognize a contingent liability; nevertheless‚ the company should disclose it‚ as required by paragraph 86‚ unless the possibility of an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits is remote. Where an entity

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    Strict Liability

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    Topics in Criminal Law May 25‚ 2010 Abstract Strict liability crimes require no culpable mental state and present a significant exception to the principle that all crimes require a conjunction of action and mens rea. Strict liability offenses make it a crime simply to do something‚ even if the offender has no intention of violating the law or causing the resulting harm. Strict liability is based philosophically on the presumption that causing harm is in itself blameworthy regardless of the

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