is dedicated to contract law, as the making and performance of contracts form the rudiment of all businesses. Students will also be introduced to the law of torts, in particular the tort of negligence. Other legal areas and concepts which, at the instructors’ discretion, will be taught include privity of contract, agency, business torts, commercial crime, e-commerce law, law of business organizations, intellectual property and international legal aspects of business. Upon completion of the course
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[COURT OF APPEAL] MILLER AND ANOTHER v. JACKSON AND OTHERS [1975 M. No. 173] 1977 March 31, April 1; 6Lord Denning M.R., Geoffrey Lane and Cumming-Bruce L.JJ. * Injunction - Jurisdiction to grant - Nuisance - Houses built adjoining village cricket ground - Damage to property and potential danger to occupants - Action by householder for damages for negligence and nuisance and injunction against playing cricket - Liability established - Whether equitable remedy of injunction appropriate where
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Case Study on tort of Defamation (Relevant to AAT Examination Paper 6: Fundamentals of Business Law) Alfred Chan, Solicitor There has been an increase in the number of defamation cases which have gone to court. In the two scenarios cases that follow, both of which are taken from recent court cases, we can see examples of legal issues in defamation and how one can approach them. Hopefully this will improve your technique in answering problem-solving type questions. First to refresh your memory, in
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Introduction: Japan’s tort liability system has been condemned for its shortcomings, including how complex tort cases are treated, such as tort litigation arising from a mass accident or environmental pollution. Although several administrative compensation schemes were adopted in response, they were incapable of addressing cases concerning environmental pollution cases. Instead, the tort liability system has been addressing the limitations of the administrative compensation system despite its defects
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Tort and contract law are similar in that both involve a breach of duties, and in modern law these duties have blurred and it may not be clear whether an action "sounds in tort or contract". With contract violations, the breach has to do with the duties that have been named in the contract. Tort violations however also involve some sort of breach of duty which can be viewed as the causes of action which are not defined in other areas such as contract or fiduciary law,as in the case of “Donoghue v
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Case Analysis: Discharged Contracts Carmelisa King Kaplan University LS311: Business Law Professor Baum September 2nd, 2014 Introduction There is an old saying a person’s word is their bond. In business a person’s word can be used as a contractual agreement. However, this type of contract isn’t always the best way to do business. It is important to have a written contractual agreement that both parties can be held by so there can’t be any possibility of either parties breaching the contract
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1) NZICA has set out strong fundamental principles of the code of ethics regarding what an auditor imbody while carrying out an audit. These include XRB PES 110-150; * Integrity * Objectivity and independence * Professional competence and due care * Confidentiality * Professional behavior If someone’s an auditor from a professional body, he has to follow XRB or his professional bodies’ ethical code. In this case Pearson is part of NZICA and in turn must follow the standards
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and Control of Pollution) Act,1981. But this observation of the courts also has been criticized. The Kerala High Court in P.C. Cherian v. State of Kerala explained the nature and scope of Section 133. In this case two rubber industries, situated in industrial area, were using carbon black for carbon mixing process. The excess carbon black usually disseminated into the atmosphere. There was no necessary equipment to prevent such dissemination of carbon black which caused discomfort, injury and
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