Legal Underpinnings of Business Law Valarie Murphy-Taylor BUS 670 Marla Muse June 09‚ 2014 Abstract The aim of this paper is to discuss business structure and organization and how liability differs between each organizational form. Society has set standards that govern our interactions with others. In addition‚ though not often obvious to the naked eye‚ most businesses have standards that similar to one another in governing their activities and abilities to function continually
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Legal Issues Main legal issues and conforming to these: 1. Copyright Act – this act has existed since 1911 and in alternative forms even before this. It was amended in 1992 so that computer programs and digital work was included within other areas of the same act. In particular all the rules governing Literary work became applicable to Computer Software. Latest Copyright Act – Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988 was updated in 1992 and more recently in 2009 What is actually covered by the
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the extent to which Judicial Precedent shapes English law and how Statutory Interpretation contributes to such a process. The English legal system is a common law system‚ where the decisions of sitting judges in a case have future influence over future courts. Judicial Precedent binds judges by past decisions of higher courts‚ stare decisis‚ and they abide by them. This could be said to create a consistent and fair system i.e. a body of legal principles. Statutory Interpretation is how judges
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Laws are rules made by the government that forbid certain actions and are enforced by the courts (The Government of Canada‚ 2015). According to the Government of Canada‚ "Canada’s legal system is a combination of common law and civil law‚ which is based on the English and French system brought to Canada by explorers and colonists during the 17th and 18th centuries". The common law tradition is a law that is written down as legislation. Common law evolved into a system of rules based on precedent
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Environmental problems‚ ranging from Antarctic Ozone hold to global warming‚ are becoming severe and urgently needed to be tackled with. It has gone beyond national boundaries and become an issue that can be only solved by the cooperation of all the countries in the world. Firstly‚ the seriousness of the environmental problems has gone beyond the individual country’s ability to solve. The environment has been polluted for hundreds of year by all the people in every county. Due to lacking of capital
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Resources has been working with conflict parties and affected communities to contribute to the ongoing peace talks and address the multiple‚ intertwined layers of conflict. We work with the belief that if the peace building capacities of local civil society are developed and people have a better understanding of how lessons from other contexts can be applied to their own situation‚ a more just and lasting peace can be achieved. On 7 October 2012‚ there was a historic peace breakthrough in the form
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The Australian Legal System Overview * The continent now known as “Australia” has a very long history of occupation * Aboriginal people have lived on the continent for at least 40 000 years. European settlement of the continent has been relatively recent Aboriginal Culture * When English settlers arrived at Sydney cove in 1788‚ there were approximately 500 aboriginal tribe living in different parts of the continent. The combined population of the tribes is thought to have been
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Privacy in Modern Societies Of all the human rights in the global archive‚ confidentiality and privacy are conceivably the largest problematical human right in this era. Classification of privacy differs commonly by circumstance as well as locality. In countless diverse regions and cultures around the world‚ countries have involved the right and justification of privacy with data or information protection‚ which interprets privacy with reference to managing delicate information. Outside these strict
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INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND MALAYSIAN LEGAL SYSTEM What is Law Law is needed to ensure good conduct of people and peace in society. Therefore‚ government makes necessary laws whenever needed. Law is an obligatory rule of conduct. Government makes law to regulate the conduct of people in society. Law requires that people should behave well with fellow members in society and must abide by social and ethical rules together with legislative laws made by Parliament. Law is obligatory for
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OVERVIEW OF CHINESE COMPANY LAW (I) Legal characteristics of Modern Company A modern company has a set of legal characteristics: 1. Independent legal personality 2. Limited liability 3. Transferability of shares / interests 4. Centralised Management 5. Investor Ownership These characteristics respond to the economic exigencies of the large modern business. 1. Independent Legal Personality Meaning: - Independent from investors and the management; - Counter-party in corporate
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