Lizbeth Gerena Business Law 201 Writing Assignment 1 Prof. Benichou May 3, 2015 Case Study 1 Crime: The students at Gigantic State University (GSU) committed several crimes when they decided to take over Dunfee Hall. The most dangerous was the assault with a deadly weapon (firearm). Whether it was real or just a play gun it was used to represent a real gun. The victim thought it to
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Torts Assignment PART 1 1) Does Autumn Bay High owe a duty of care to Persephone and Aphrodite? Consider the common law as well as any impact that the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) may have on the common law. The main considerations that have to be taken into account when deciding whether Autumn Bay High owed a duty of care to Persephone and Aphrodite are the reasonable foreseeability of nervous shock and whether their duty of care was non-delegable. Under the Civil Liability Act
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Additionally, there are intentional torts, including trespass, defamation of character, battery and assault and theft of trade secrets or copyrights. If you have been hurt in an accident, you need to notify anyone who might be responsible for the accident. It's not necessary to know
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organizational employers expected to provide a safe working environment? These questions, as well as others, can only be answered by collecting and analyzing all the pertinent facts. Once completed, the employer can determine the type(s) of applicable torts associated with the complaint, degree of liability (civil or criminal) involved, and procedures required to resolve the issue to the satisfaction of all interested parties. Employer Obligations The given scenario provides insignificant details
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PART I: Did CARDWARE have genuine Bona Fide Occupational Job Qualifications) in its ad? Title VII of the 1964 Civil Right Act addresses the Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications (BFOQ) that can be used in legal employment discriminations. BFOQs are employment qualifications that employers are allowed to take into consideration while making employment decisions about hiring and retention of employees that falls under the “protected groups of people.” These groups that Title VII protects are race
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LAW OF TORTS Research Project: NEGLIGENCE AND PRESENT LEGAL SCENARIO Submitted By Shivanshu Sharma 14010224128 Division A Batch 2014-2019 Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA Symbiosis International University, PUNE In September, 2014 Under the guidance of DR. C.J RAWANDALE Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA Symbiosis International University, PUNE In September, 2014 CERTIFICATE The Project entitled “NEGLIGENCE AND PRESENT LEGAL SCENARIO” submitted to the Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA for Ethics
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Soo Clumsy can sue Tesko under law of tort. Tort is a civil wrong or wrongful act, whether intentional or accidentally which unfairly causes someone to suffer loss or harm from another party and this is lead to action to civil court. There are two ways to occur in civil liability which is either a breach of contract or a tort having been committed. Liability of tort is not undertaken voluntarily and its’ applied by the courts on the basis that certain types of conduct ensure the imposition of tortious
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critical begins with identify your own point to view Introduction The motto to look for negligence as a cause of action under the Law of Torts .conduct negligence is cause of the harm to plaintiff where as plaintiff was harmed or damaged. The concept of negligence comes from the liability for wrongful acts of others .There are many more important
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 (3.1) Contrast liability in torts with contractual liability 3 (3.2) Explain the nature of liability in negligence & (3.3) Explain how a business can be vicariously liable 4 (4.1) Apply the elements of the tort of negligence and defences in the above different business situations for the legal officer who is assigned to VJSC & (4.2) Apply the elements of vicarious liability in above different business situations for the legal officer who is assigned
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occurred to where one could file a suit. Intentional tort, Lee who is a customer of Buy-Mart begins shooting innocent shoppers with a rifle he is planning to purchase. One of Lee’s victims is a lady walking along with her husband in the next aisle over. As she falls to the ground her husband has a heart attack. A boy is also injured by a metal beam from the bullet ricochets but was unintentional; this is considered as an unintentional tort. Then the tort of outrage is also noticed in this scenario
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