Law 421/Week Two What are the elements of negligence? How does an intentional tort differ from negligence? Provide examples. Intentional torts can be described as deliberate acts to harm someone. Negligence can be described to deliberately choose not to act in order to fix a problem which ultimately results in someone being harmed. There are several elements that need to be present in order for a claim to be considered negligence (Melvin‚ 2011). According to our text these elements need to be present
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The problem This paper discusses the legal and ethical implications in conjunction with performing surgery on disabled people for social reasons. Ethical Katie is immaturity and she has the right like other non-disabled girls to live with her body in tact and she has the same choice to give birth to her own baby. According to the Family Court in Australia and Family Law Act 1975‚ no person under 18 should have hysterectomy unless the procedures are necessary to prevent serious physical and psychological
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Assignment Three Part One: Legal Issues – These are laws set by the government. That are essentially rules that a business must follow. They are designed to keep both the consumer and the business happy and ensure that everyone is treated fairly. Vue must follow these rules or they may be prosecuted and faced with a punishment such as a fine or‚ I extreme circumstances‚ forced closure of a business. Data protection Act –The Data Protection Act is set up to stop businesses unlawfully sharing customers
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place so government official could feel better about addressing some issues of popular concern rather than resolving the issue. According to Niskanen the SOX act of 2002 is unnecessary‚ harmful‚ and inadequate (2006). Punishments under this act included jail time and loss of personal property. The act was viewed as unnecessary because the stock exchange has already addressed and implemented procedures to deal with most of the issues presented in the SOX act of 2002. Those implementations include accounting
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information available ethics (correct conduct when using this information) comes into play. One of the most common issues is Plagiarism. Plagiarism is when one uses another’s information and/or ideas without properly citing and crediting that person. Plagarism can be done intentionally or unintentionally. Examples of serious plagiarism are allowing someone to write a paper for you‚ using a paid service to write your document‚ and borrowing sentences and sentence structures from a document.
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing How personal and societal values can influence ethical decision- making process when nurses are faced with ethical issues‚ nursing has long advocated a nonjudgmental approach to care. Nurses need to able to apply ethical principle in decision- making and consider their own values and belief and the values and belief of the client. As nurses we have the responsibility to protect the right of the client by acting as client advocate. According with Blais‚ Hayes‚
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Legal Issues Legal issue | Law/legislation | Brief description of legislation | Hygiene | Food Act 2003 (NSW)Food Regulation 2004 (NSW) | States where food can be prepared and sold‚ how food should be transported‚ stored‚ prepared‚ cooked and served. Expected hygiene standards‚ no spoiled or contaminated foods sold. Foods must match description given to customers | Liquor | Liquor Act 1982(NSW)Liquor Regulation 1996 (NSW) | Notification to the public to apply for a license‚ trading hours permitted
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CadMex Pharmaceutical Memorandum To: Mr. Jack Brandt‚ CEO; Kera Sawyer‚ International Legal Counsel From: Dan‚ Vice President of International Business Development Date: March 9‚ 20XX Subject: Current Gentura Status I would like to take this opportunity to bring everyone up to date on the status of our relationship with Gentura. We have been working in partnership with Gentura a biotechnology company based in Candore since 2007. Candore‚ a small developing island country in South East Asia‚
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that he did not reject the agreement that was e-mailed to him‚ therefore any and all terms in that contract were binding whether or not he agreed to them after the fact. E-mail communication impact Yes‚ the document that BTT had sent to Chou was a legal binding contract for the distribution as the document was not rejected by Chou. Also the fact that BTT asked Chou to draw up an agreement after months had passed and Chou responded with the agreement. Statute of frauds In regards to contracts‚
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Legal Issue in Business: The Case of Enron [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institution] Legal Issue in Business: The Case of Enron Introduction Business ethics is based on normative ethics ‚ standards that ethics are upheld and applied specific to distinguish what is right or wrong‚ that is to say what should be done or who should not be fact. However‚ with few exceptions‚ business ethicists are usually less interested in the foundations of ethics (meta-ethics) or by the principles
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