EVIDENCE ACT, 2011 EXPLANATORY M E M O R A N D U M This Act repeals the Evidence Act, Cap. E14, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, and enacts a new Evidence Act, 2011 w h i c h applies to all judicial proceedings in or before Courts in Nigeria. EVIDENCE ACT, 2011 ARRANGEMENT SECTION: I- GENERAL Evidence may be given of facts in issue and relevant facts. Evidence in accordance with section I generally admissible. Admissibility of evidence under other legislation. PART JI- RELEVANCY Relevance
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Enjoy! Hedonic Consumption and Compliance with Assertive Messages ANN KRONROD AMIR GRINSTEIN LUC WATHIEU This paper examines the persuasiveness of assertive language (as in Nike’s slogan “Just do it”) as compared to nonassertive language (as in Microsoft’s slogan “Where do you want to go today?”). Previous research implies that assertive language should reduce consumer compliance. Two experiments show that assertiveness is more effective in communications involving hedonic products, as well as
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Customer Information Strategy Convergys Case 1. Convergys, a leader in contract-based business process outsourcing services, has been successful in acquiring high-profile customers (e.g. Verizon, FedEx & Starbucks, among others) across a wide variety of industries. Despite Convergys’ impressive customer list, the company has seen its operating margin decrease about 20% over the past 5 years. Key decision makers within the company believe that this decline is due, at least in part, to issues
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AFTER THE BAILOUT: REGULATING SYSTEMIC MORAL HAZARD* Karl S. Okamoto ** How do we prevent excessive risk taking in the financial markets? This Essay offers a strategy for regulating financial markets to better prevent the kind of disaster we saw during the Financial Crisis of 2008. By developing a model of risk-manager decisionmaking, this Essay illustrates how even “good people” acting in utterly rational and expected ways brought us into economic turmoil. The assertion of this Essay is that
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2/5/2012 ECONOMIC NEXUS IN WASHINGTON STATE: DEFINING SUBSTANTIAL NEXUS Armikka R. Bryant* I. INTRODUCTION This Article explores the evolving framework of nexus and examines the constitutional constraints imposed on states’ tax jurisdiction and how states overcome those limitations. In 2010, the Washington State Legislature declared that out-of-state businesses with no physical presence in Washington were earning significant income from Washington residents by providing services or collecting
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study animals were from small populations (< 100 breeding animals) and sampled from a single location from insular breeding grounds in the tropical western Atlantic (Ohta et al. 2000; Feldheim et al. 2001, 2002; Saville et al. 2002; E. Heist, pers. comm.). Furthermore, in both species (especially so with the nonmigratory G. cirratum), some individuals of both sexes appear to maintain long-term site fidelity (‘philopatry’) to the sampled breeding grounds (Pratt & Carrier 2001; Feldheim et al. 2002;
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Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) Legal Studies Paper No. 2005-18 August 2005 Facilitating Compulsory Licensing under TRIPS in Response to the AIDS Crisis in Developing Countries Professor Hans Henrik Lidgard Professor Jeffery Atik This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) electronic library at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=794228 FACILITATING COMPULSORY LICENSING UNDER TRIPS IN RESPONSE TO THE AIDS CRISIS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Hans Henrik Lidgard
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Fall 2012 Final Examination Schedule Exam Section(s) Day Date Start Finish Location 1 ACTSC 221 ACTSC 231 ACTSC 232 ACTSC 331 ACTSC 371 ACTSC 372 ACTSC 431 ACTSC 432 ACTSC 445 ACTSC 446 ACTSC 463 ACTSC 471 ACTSC 831 ACTSC 832 ACTSC 845 ACTSC 846 ACTSC 863 AFM 101 AFM 123 AFM 131 AFM 204 AFM 273 AFM 291 AFM 333 AFM 371 AFM 372 AFM 391 AFM 401 AFM 415 AFM 451 AFM 461 AFM 471 AFM 472 AFM 476 AFM 481 001 001,002 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 001,002 001 001 001 001 001 001 to 006 001 001
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for Ébéniste Jewelry, in order to fulfill academic requirements as requested for the course of COMM 320 at John Molson School of Business. We would really appreciate feedback regarding this business plan. Thank you very much for your time. Sincerely, Ébéniste Jewelry team Ébéniste Jewelry Business Plan | COMM 320, Section R Professor: Judy Nagy Concordia University April 14, 2015 COMM 320, Section R Professor: Judy Nagy Concordia University April 14, 2015 | | Matheson
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Cyber-crimes: A Practical Approach to the Application of Federal Computer Crime Laws Eric J. Sinrod† and William P. Reilly†† I. Introduction Cyber-crime, once the domain of disaffected genius teenagers as portrayed in the movies “War Games” and “Hackers,” has grown into a mature and sophisticated threat to the open nature of the Internet. “Cyber-criminals,” like their non-virtual traditional criminal counterparts, seek opportunity and are attracted to vacuums in law enforcement. The
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