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Creating legally binding agreements Who has the right to enforce contractual obligations? * Contractual obligations only exist between those who have agreed to undertake them. * It follows that only parties to the contract have the right to bring an action to enforce it. This is called ‘privity’ of contract. * Price v Easton (1833) 4 B & Ad 433 * Coulls v Bagot's Executor & Trustee Co Ltd (1967) 119 CLR 460 Price v Easton 1. Original debt owed by builder
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Delivery and growth Royal Dutch Shell plc Annual Report and Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2007 Royal Dutch Shell Our Business With 104,000 employees in more than 110 countries and territories, Shell plays a key role in helping to meet the world’s growing demand for energy in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways. Our Exploration & Production business searches for and recovers oil and natural gas around the world. Many of these activities are carried out as
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Markus Christen, Ganesh Iyer, & David Soberman Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, and Effort: A Reexamination Using Agency Theory The objective of this article is to clarify ambiguities in the literature regarding the relationships among three key constructs of work relationships: effort, job performance, and job satisfaction. The relationship between job performance and job satisfaction is of central interest to research in organizational psychology. However, empirical research in that area
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REPORT ON CREDIT OPERATIONS SYSTEM IN THE PRIME BANK LIMITED PREPARED FOR M. MUZAHIDUL ISLAM ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF BANKING UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA PREPARED BY NIPA SAHA ROLL-423, MBA 1ST BATCH DATE OF SUBMISSION: MAY 10, 2006 DEPARTMENT OF BANKING UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA Supervisor's Certificate This is to certify that the Internship Report on "Prime Bank
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