How do we justify imposing strict liability for some criminal offences? Strict liability offences are offences which do not require proof of mens rea. This means that the prosecution only needs to prove that the defendant voluntarily committed a forbidden act without considering if the defendant had the intention. Strict liability is contained in statutes or statutory instruments‚ and occasionally found in common law. Common law offences of strict liability include criminal libel and blasphemous
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Instagram and the Ethics of Privacy Monday‚ Feb. 4‚ 2013 Background Founded in 2010‚ Instagram considers itself to be “a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures.” By downloading the free Instagram mobile application (or app)‚ users snap a photo with their mobile phone‚ then choose a filter to transform the image‚ and can share it on various sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The company views itself as more than just a photo-storage tool but a way “to experience
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multinational companies have budgets larger than certain third-world countries. A multinational corporation is sometimes referred to as a "transnational company." These large corporations‚ and the controversy which sometimes surrounds them‚ have in a way brought the study of business ethics to the forefront. As a detriment‚ they have been blamed for hastening the collapse of traditional ways of life; for taking advantage of weak and/or corrupt governments in countries where they do business; for
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in the business of receiving deposits (liabilities) and to issue debt securities on one hand and create or invest in assets on the other hand during these transactions banks incur costs for their liabilities and earn income from their assets. Asset – liability management is therefore very critical for the sound management of the finances of any organisation that invests to meet its future cash flow needs and capital requirements. An efficient asset-liability management requires maximising the bank’s
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1. What is digital privacy mean to you? The massive change in the ways that data is collected‚ stored and processed in the digital age poses great risks to our right to privacy and control our data. Our data is at the centre of many online businesses. Privacy is a fundamental right for a very strong reason. It is essential for individuals to have control of their personal lives and to be free from invasion and surveillance in order to feel free from threat‚ particularly from the state. Our
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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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Assessing Your Organization’s Value Anita LaGrone COM/310 December 01.2014 Mary Lee Cunill Assessing Your Organization’s Value Is your organization infected? Do your organization collaborates‚ share information‚ and helps each other? There are so many companies that are quick to say they are invested in their employees‚ however if it does not show their everyday activities‚ the culture will soon reflect it. Therefore‚ finding the person to fit for your organization cultural can be a challenging
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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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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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Limit at infinity The function has the limit as increases without bound (or‚ asapproaches infinity)‚ written if can be made arbitrarily close to by taking large enough. Similarly‚ the function has the limit as decreases without bound (or‚ asapproaches negative infinity)‚ written if can be made arbitrarily close to by taking to be negative and sufficiently large in absolute value. One-sided limits The function has the right-hand limit as approaches from the right written if the
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