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    Contributory Negligence

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    I. CASE 4.28: Contributory Negligence Facts: • Pride Accountants has been the auditor of Skyhign Ltd for the last five years. • The audited was made for the year ended 30 June 2009‚ where Pride Accountants issued an unqualified opinion of the financial reports. • Skyhigh is a largest client of Pride Accountants. • They have a good working relationship. • In the past‚ audits of Skyhigh have run smoothly and its financial reports have always been unqualified. • The audited was made for the

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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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    Running Head: Strict Liability Torts Strict Liability Torts (Product Liability) Adil Elatillah LEG 300 Professor: Queen Meheux Spring 2012 Strayer University Strict Liability exists in the criminal context as well as civil‚ it is a legal responsibility for any damages and losses caused by a person or organization due to the act which is defined a fault in the criminal law term. Strict Liability‚ especially product liability is well known in tort law‚ of course criminal law and the

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    In Defense of Negligence

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    In Defense of Negligence Crystal J. Bolden Professor Nekia S. Hackworth Elmo Puppeteer Sued over Sexual Allegations November 28‚ 2012 Relevant Facts in the case of Kevin Clash 1 According to New York Daily News‚ November 2012 the voice behind the little red furry friend Elmo from “Sesame Street” is being sued by three different accusers for inappropriate sexual conduct towards under aged kids. The first accuser came fourth stating that he had sexual relations with Kevin

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    Auditor Liability

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    The European Accounting Review 2000‚ 9:3‚ 371 385 Auditor liability rules under imperfect information and costly litigation: the welfare-increasing eŒ of liability ect insurance Ralf Ewert‚ Eberhard Feess and Martin Nell University of Frankfurt‚ Frankfurt am Main ABSTRACT This paper examines auditor liability rules under imperfect information‚ costly litigation and risk-averse auditors. A negligence rule fails in such a setting‚ because in equilibrium auditors will deviate with positive probability

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    Tort Liabilities

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    Tort Liabilities Nursing homes have the potential to have tort liabilities if the problems are not corrected if harm should occur. A nursing home is a busy place and with different people coming and going throughout the day. A nursing home is a high demand for care of residents. Nursing home staff should be knowledgeable about the resident’s quality of care and should be licensed to perform the care that is given. Possible Tort Liability: Resident that wanders. These residents are

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    Criminal Liability

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    Principles of Criminal Liability 1/16/2013 Student ID: Word Count: 2482 Criminal activities are very common in our society. With the intention to hamper the property of other people or causing ill effect to others‚ criminal activities are occurred usually. Sometimes people involve themselves with some activities to injure others due to personal clash or from ill temperament. Some activities which may be done to cause simple injury

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    Negligence Irac

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    ISSUE Has the golf club breached its duty care to Wayne. RELEVANT LAW/RULES To determine if there has been a breach of duty the standard of care needs to be considered. The standard of care is set out in section 9 and 10 of the The Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld). Section 9 sets out the general principles. These include‚ is it reasonably foreseeable that harm will be suffered if a person does an act or omission; is the risk of harm significant or insignificant; a reasonable person would have

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    Vicarious Liability

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    allows for the former to incur the liabilty. The object of this assignment is to explain the principle of vicarious liability and show which instances it applies to. Reference will be made to decided cases and statutes. 2. Employer- Employee Relationship The employer- employee relationship is one of the most common occurrences of cases of vicarious liability. The most accepted reason for conferring liability to the employer is that by assigning a task to the employee‚ the employer creates

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    Strict Liability

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     DEFENITION: STRICT LIABILITY  RYLANDS V FLETCHER CASE i. FACTS ii. DIAGRAMATICAL REPRESENTATION iii. JUDGEMENT iv. EFFECTS OF THE CASE v. EFFECTS OF THE CASE IN INDIA vi. CONCLUSION vii. ESSENTIALS  EXCEPTIONS  BIBLIOGRAPHY STRICT LIABILITY • A person may be liable for some harm even though he is not negligent in causing the same or does not intentionally cause it or is careful or has taken steps to prevent the same. • e.g.‚ The defendant is liable to the neighbor

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