Societies have always “cherished their indigenous law as an integral part of their cultural heritage.” In fact, Southeast asian countries are an epitome for ecclectic cultural and legal diversity. Chiba's tripartite model structures a legal-system into three parts, namely “official law”, “unofficial law”, and “legal postulates”. Chiba’s theory supposes that none of these elements ever exists in isolation; they continuously interact in dynamic fashion. Therefore in Chiba’s view law is always plural
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In the specific case of Skyway Canada Limited v Consumers’ Co-operative Refineries Limited, 2016 SKQB 295 (Skyway v CCRL), the plaintiff is suing for the defendant under s. 15 of the Environmental Management and Protection Act, 2002, SS 2002, c E-10.21 (“EMPA”). The case states, “Skyway pleads that it suffered damage to property in the amount of $2,771,823.34, and business interruption loss of $181,529.08” (Skyway v CCRL para 2). This case uses judge law to analyze whether the plaintiff’s argument
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several pieces of the Act were no longer fit to serve as the basis for interpretation. The 1976 Act was designed to address intellectual property issues raised by new innovations in technology that were previously unforeseen. The Act addresses to the legal practitioners and non-lawyers what kinds of rights they have based on the medium in which they have chosen to communicate an idea as what as what constitutes a copyrightable idea. The sine qua non of copyright is originality, however, the Copyright
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Education Association B. Current Status 1. 3.2 million members 2. Largest professional employee organization 3. Largest union in America II. Legal Issues/Obstacles A. Shows more support for the Democratic Party B. Puts interests for its teachers ahead of students C. Fails to discipline “bad” teachers D. Embezzlement
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Law firms Project What is the legal aid? Payment from public funds allowed, in cases of need, to help pay for legal advice or proceedings. Legal aid can help meet the costs of legal advice, family mediation and representation in a court or tribunal. Legal aid are limited, which mean that people who earns a certain amount of money, would not be eligible to have a legal aid. Legal has been reduced by 15 pound comparing to the previous hourly pay of 44 pound. The government is cutting off pay
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ensure the rights of each child, his/her parents, carer and legal guardians without discrimination on the basis of their race, language, colour, age, sex, social origin, status, place of birth, property, job, position, religion, opinion, education and health condition; 2) The state, individuals, private entities and organisations recognize to ensure the best interest of the child in their all actions; 3) Parents, carer and legal guardians are equally responsible for ensuring physical, mental
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establishment for companies Daily Mail – case (C-81/87) ECJ made a distinction between primary establishment and secondary establishment Primary establishment To move the real seat of the company to another member state with maintaining the original legal personality (original company form) is not possible since there are serious differences in company laws of the member states A company should end its business in the original member state, then form itself again under the laws of the
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Name Institution Course Unit Lecturer Date Case name: Doe v. United States 487 U.S 201(1988) Facts of the case: Petitioner John Doe was a target of the federal grand jury investigations into possible cases of suspected fraudulent manipulation of oil cargoes and, as a result, receipt of unreported income (Justia ). Pursuant to a subpoena that directed him to produce all records of transaction received in some backs in Bermuda and the Cayman islands, doe appeared before a grand jury. In his appearance
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Task 1 Part A Sole Proprietorship A sole proprietorship refers to a form of organization owned by a single individual. In this business, a single person makes all the decisions and does not have to engage a legal department to approve contracts. The owner of such a business can only use personal funds even though he or she may have separate checking and savings accounts for the business. The first characteristic of this form of business enterprise is liability. A sole proprietor suffers
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because of unfortunate market settings, poor business policy or if there is an injury suffered implicated by company products. The liability falls on the owner of the company including all characteristics of the business and can be brought into any legal actions. * Income Taxes: As a sole proprietor the owner will need to report all incomes and damages via their personal tax report filing. * Longevity or Continuity of the Organization: Despite a sole proprietorship being rather easy to start
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