Liability of Negligence When a person is said to be liable for an action under the law‚ it means that they are responsible in some way for the outcome that results either in the law of a nation to be violated which comes under criminal liability‚ or in an injury to other individuals that is considered to be a civil liability. The main requirement for a liability happens to be intent1‚ which says that‚ an individual is not responsible for something that they did not mean to do. However‚ the Law of
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Product Liability Research Paper Shericia Bonnett Professor Kapalko LEG 500 – Law and Ethics In the Business Environment 09/09/2012 Consumers use a variety of products on a daily basis to assist them in accomplishing a task or completing a project and they expect the product to be properly designed and safe to use. However‚ in the event that a product is defective and causes injury to the person using it‚ the manufacturer may be liable for the injury and have to compensate the injured
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Contingent Liability 1. Analyze why a company would prefer not to disclose its contingent liabilities. In order to understand why a company would or would not disclose his contingent liabilities it is important to know exactly what a contingent liability is. As I have learned throughout all of my accounting studies a liability is simply an obligation or debt that a business owes to an individual or an organization. Now there are many liabilities that include services‚ payroll‚ notes‚ and
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LIABILITIES OF THE DIRECTORS By: Course: Instructor: University‚ City‚ State: Date: LIABILITIES OF THE DIRECTORS A company is usually established by individuals or Directors (officers included) in this case so as to run it in appropriate manner in order to make maximum profits. For this to happen‚ it is for the company (Pandora Diamonds and Gems Pty Ltd in our case) to enter or make contracts with outsiders like Kaplan Bank Ltd and Space Solutions Pty
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ASSETS & LIABILITIES Asset is an item of value owned by the company. Assets can be tangible i.e. those which have some physical existence or can be intangible i.e. which do not exist in physical form but can be held in the form of contracts or rights. Assets are usually grouped in order of liquidity (ease of conversion to cash) on the balance sheet. Cash is therefore the most liquid of all assets. Assets can be classified as: 1.) Current Assets – Those assets that are expected to be converted to
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lawsuits and litigation from everyone suing everyone else‚ one must ask the question "where does product liability end and consumer responsibility begin?" This question has been further complicated by occurrences that stretch to the most far-reaching ends of this spectrum‚ the spectrum ranging from strict product liability of the company to complete consumer responsibility. On the strict product liability of the company side‚ we have the cigarette industry where the CEOs of the largest cigarette companies
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Introduction The question this essay seeks to answer is: Have the prohibition against the use of force found in Art. 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations1 (hereafter the UN Charter) been a success? In answering that question one have to figure out how to measure success. In determining this‚ it is relevant to look at which indicators the legal text set up for this. In the preamble of the UN Charter it clearly states that the aim of the regime is ‘to save succeeding generations from the scourge
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Criminal Liability Essay Criminal liabilities are conditions of being actually or potentially subject to a legal obligation. Liability means legal responsibility for one’s acts or omission‚ also when acts which harms society‚ and which are prosecuted by the government. Sometimes certain negligence can lead to criminal liability. Liability needs to be distinguished from the following concepts: * culpability (purposely‚ knowingly‚ recklessly‚ negligently) - infers intent * capacity
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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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is the wanton use of excessive force‚ usually physical‚ but potentially in the form of verbal attacks and psychological intimidation‚ by a police officer. Widespread police brutality exists in many countries‚ even those that prosecute it. It is one of several forms of police misconduct‚ which include: false arrest; intimidation; racial profiling; political repression; surveillance abuse; sexual abuse; and police corruption. However‚ as aforementioned‚ it may involve physical force but never reaching
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