roughly 90,000 square kilometer. Only 192 of the islands are inhabited, and 70 percent of those have a population of less than 1,000 people. The Maldives legal system is based on an admixture of Islamic Law and English common law. English common law greatly influences the civil and commercial laws of the country. To know more about the country, please visit Commonwealth country profile on Maldives and Commonwealth Governance. A very informative paper on the history of the country, legal history
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Republic of the Philippines Supreme Court Manila EN BANC JOVITO S. OLAZO, Complainant, - versus - JUSTICE DANTE O. TINGA (Ret.), Respondent. A.M. No. 10-5-7-SC Present: CORONA, C.J., CARPIO, CARPIO MORALES, *VELASCO
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[REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6713] AN ACT ESTABLISHING A CODE OF CONDUCT AND ETHICAL STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES, TO UPHOLD THE TIME-HONORED PRINCIPLE OF PUBLIC OFFICE BEING A PUBLIC TRUST, GRANTING INCENTIVES AND REWARDS FOR EXEMPLARY SERVICE, ENUMERATING PROHIBITED ACTS AND TRANSACTIONS AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: Section 1. Title. — This
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Law School | | | | | | | | | http://www.mcgill.ca/law-admissions/undergraduates/admissions/documents/ We do not have any advisors here at the Faculty of Law but the Undergrad Admissions team is available to answer all questions you have about the Law Program. You can visit us in person at the Admissions Office located at the following address: Admissions Office McGill University, Faculty of Law 3644 Peel Street, Room 418 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1W9 Office hours: Monday to Thursday:
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By Laws Unlike Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws do not need to filed with the state. However, Bylaws are an important document that lays out how the cooperative is to be governed. The governing body (whether it consists of an elected Board of Directors or all members of a collective[1]) must abide the Bylaws. Typically, a cooperative’s Bylaws can only be changed by a democratic vote (or in some cases, consensus [2]) of the membership. For this reason, cooperatives usually limit their Bylaws
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HISTORY As an effective strategy to combat corruption and promote ethical conduct in public service in the Philippines, as early as June 18, 1955, Republic Act 1379 was passed and approved into law declaring forfeiture in favor of the State any property found to have been unlawfully acquired by any public officer or employee. This refers to an amount of property acquired by any public officer or employee during his/her incumbency which is manifestly out of proportion to his/her salary as such public
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Employment-At-Will-Doctrine Clearly, employees are curious and feel they have the right to find out if their workers are productive and loyal employees. Employers have to protect themselves from liability for their employee’s everyday activities. At the same time, employees expect to have a certain comfort level by not having their space or privacy invaded in the workplace. “Tension between privacy and the need to know is heightened as computer technology revolutionizes information gathering.”
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Copyright Law Copyright is the exclusive right, to an intellectual property of any person, including elements of authorship, musical, literary, architectural, pictorial, choreographic, pantomimic, graphic, sculptural, and cartographic creations to print, publish or sell copies of his or her original work. Copyright is a law that protects published and unpublished work that you can see, hear and touch, from being reproduced without prior consent from the creator of the work. The copyright law was designed
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LAWS OF KENYA The ConsTiTuTion of Kenya Revised Edition 2010 Published by the National Council for Law Reporting with the Authority of the Attorney General 2 Constitution of Kenya [Rev. 2010 THE CONSTITUTION OF KENYA ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES PREAMBLE CHAPTER ONE—SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE AND SUPREMACY OF THIS CONSTITUTION 1—Sovereignty of the people. 2—Supremacy of this Constitution. 3—Defence of this Constitution. CHAPTER TWO—THE REPUBLIC 4—Declaration of the Republic. 5—Territory of Kenya
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| House Bill 1253 | | | | 1 | | Every year there are many laws that are added or revised in the state of Missouri along within in the United States. I think it is a great thing that we go back and revise laws, because nothing ever stays the same. In our society things change every day and sometimes it can be hard to keep up with. I was looking through some pending laws and one caught my eye. The house bill number is 1253 (HB1253). This bill has to do with our criminal
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