SCHOOL OF LAW Year 2013-14 Term 1 LAW001 ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Instructor: David N. Smith Practice Professor‚ School of Law Tel: Email: Office: 6828 0788 davidsmith@smu.edu.sg School of Law‚ Room 4044‚ Level 4 COURSE DESCRIPTION Issues of ethics and social responsibility arise in all professions and all aspects of life. The failure to anticipate‚ recognize and deal effectively with these issues can have serious implications for individuals‚ companies‚ governments
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privilege and a duty to make the world a better place Most people would agree that it is both a privilege and a duty to make the world a better place. In the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens‚ (complete a one-sentence summary of the novel) Scrooge is visited by three ghosts and given a chance to change his future. Three examples of it being both a privilege and a duty to make the world a better place. It is a duty to make people aware of how kind they need to be‚ it is a duty to make mankind
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FM 7-21.13 Chapter 3 Section 1 Duties‚ Responsibility‚ and Authority Duty: Duty is defined as “Obligatory tasks‚ conduct‚ service‚ or functions that arise from one’s position (as in life or in a group).”- Merriam Webster. To others‚ it may mean a moral or legal obligation. Such as having a legal duty to obey lawful orders of those appointed over a soldier. According to the Army field manual noted above‚ junior enlisted soldiers perform all their duties to standard as well as to the best if their
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essential‚ therefore‚ that students should realize this and make full preparations for playing their proper role in society and answering the call of the time to come. Duties of students: This leads us to the consideration of the duties which the students should discharge in order to become good citizens of tomorrow. When we talk of duties‚ the terms ‘rights’ naturally occurs to us. The students of today‚ unfortunately‚ are conscious of only their rights. It is good that they should have a consciousness
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Duties and Responsibilities According to Cicero (2014)‚ duty refers to moral commitment and it denotes an active feeling for doing something. Once a person engages himself with some duty if he has been entrusted with a duty‚ then that person fully commits himself to it. In the case of duty‚ the person will be involved in activity without any self-interest. As a citizen of a country‚ a person has many duties to perform. It is his duty to adhere to the constitution. Responsibility can be termed
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Essay on Duties of a Good Citizen A citizen is a member of the community or a state enjoying certain privileges and performing certain duties He looks after security and the well being of the community and the community looks after his safety and security. He works for the welfare of the community or the state of which he is a permanent member. As a member of a civilised state he is expected to discharge his duties well and to enjoy the privilege granted by the state. In short‚ his rights and his
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Australia and many other common law countries (e.g. England‚ Canada) have been reluctant to impose upon bystanders a general duty to aid the proverbial baby drowning in a puddle of water‚ ’ though there have been several exceptions to the general rule which the courts have distinguished‚ usually where some sort of prior relationship exists between the parties. Protagonists of a duty to rescue ’ tend to base their arguments around the idea that contemporary morality demands the law impose some sort of
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Week 7 Breach of the Duty of Care Negligence Duty of care Established or novel duty? Is it a non-delegable duty? What is the scope of the duty? Breach of duty What is the relevant standard of care? Has the standard been breached? Damage Is it recognized by law? Was the breach a necessary condition of the harm? Is the harm within the scope of the defendant’s liability? Breach of Duty The fault part of the negligence action An act or omission of the defendant A failure to act as a reasonable person
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Ethics Essay Ethics Essay In life one must deal with moral and ethical dilemmas. “Ethics is defined as the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral obligation” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ 2013). It studies human moral behavior and how one should act. Ethics helps to explain how a person should feel about a particular situation. There are several groups of studies of ethics that defend and recommend concepts of right and wrong. The focus of this paper will be to describe
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THE DUTIES OF THE AGENTS TO PRINCIPAL The duties of an agent depend primarily on the contract of agency if there is one. Subject to any such express terms‚ the agent owes a number of implied duties or obligations to his principal. It is the agency relationship as such that gives rise to these obligations so that‚ as a general rule‚ they fall as much on the gratuitous agent as on the paid agent. 1. Obey the Principal’s instructions Section 164 states‚ The agent must obey the instructions given to
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