McGill Law Journal ~ Revue de droit de McGill JUSTIFYING FIDUCIARY DUTIES Paul B. Miller* Fiduciary duties are critical to the integrity of a remarkable variety of relationships, including those between trustee and beneficiary, director and corporation, agent and principal, lawyer and client, doctor and patient, parent and child, and guardian and ward. Notwithstanding their variety, all fiduciary relationships are presumed to enjoy common characteristics and to attract a core set of demanding
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Portfolio_Corporate_Ethics Portfolio_Corporate_Ethics Business today has evolved into a highly complex and competitive industry that requires and expects immediate action as well as results. The Global marketplace has expanded the business environment and stretched the operating parameters into new directions. Huge salaries, exponentially larger bonuses, and shareholder expectations have pushed corporate decision makers into murky waters when deciding which course of action to take. In an era
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Legal Forms of Business Michelle Impellizzeri LAW/531 January 21, 2012 J. Thomas Witek, JD Legal Forms of Business To start a business, choosing the best form of operation will depend upon the type of business the owner wants to undertake. When selecting a form of business the owner should ensure that the form best meets their needs. “The selection depends on many factors, including the ease and cost of formation, the capital requirements of the business, the flexibility of management decisions
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comprehensive picture of the situation, linking questionable business performance(s) to Applied Ethics standards. This will assist to adequately categorize the issue and develop a socially responsible strategic alternative(s) to remedy the damages caused, and determine their possible impact(s) to stakeholders. Two generic determinants influence the outcome of either proactive or reactive business ethics practices, the internal and external perceptions of a corporation; in conjunction these two determinants
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COUNCIL OF INDIA and as per the Rules of Legal Education, 2008) Effective from the academic year 2011-12 THREE YEARS’ LL.B. POGRAMME First LL. B. Semester – I FIRST LL.B. - SEMESTER 1 (MONSOON) PER WEEK CORE COURSE 101 SUBJECTS Law of Tort including MV Accident And Consumer Protection Laws Criminal Law Paper – I (General Principles of Penal Law) Criminal Law Paper – II (Specific Offences) Law of Contract Special Contract Constitutional History of India Use of Law Journals and Legal Software
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Running Head: Electronic Surveillance of Employees Electronic Surveillance of Employees Tenika Farris Professor: Anne Dewey- Balzhiser LEG 500-Law, Ethics & Corp. Governance 10/22/2011 Introduction New technology allows employers to monitor the job performance of their employees which has become a common practice in some workplaces. This procedure can be accomplished through e-mail, telephone, camera, internet and other electronic surveillance monitoring systems. This procedure was
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Hours: Leslie Dixon 9 am – 11:30 am M W and by Office: 202B Houser Hall; 205-348-1663 appointment Email: Ldixon@cs.ua.edu (please include a subject) Course Websites: http://cs340.cs.ua.edu & https://ualearn.blackboard.com/ Twitter: cs340 Required Text: Ethics in a Computing Culture Binkman ISBN: 1-111-53110-2 Required Access: Global Technology Watch ISBN: 1-111-37635-2 Grading: Writings, quizzes, in-class work, participation: Project: Exams (3 @ 15% each): 30% 25% 45% Writings: Approximately 3 times
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“Inappropriate genetic testing can threaten individual autonomy, privacy, and confidentiality and lead to various types of genetic stigmatization and discrimination without any commensurate benefit for the individual tested,” (Brandt; Rauf, 2004). When Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) tested their employees without the employees knowing about it, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) stepped in and cited that BNSF violated the employee’s equal rights through discrimination
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1. Introduction 1.1 From the dawn of human civilization, we, human being are directly or indirectly dependent to each other. For our better living, we created family, then formed group/society, then country and international community. Each individual, each family, each group and each country are dependent on each other by some means. For the easy exchange of dependency, people introduced business. “Business is defined as the exchange of goods, services or money for mutual benefit or profit.”
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River Rafting Location, Evaluation, and Analysis Lynn Lee, Gail Rickey, Brenda Wilson-Stringer ACC/543 Managerial Accounting & Legal Aspects of Business February 10, 2014 Fred Johnston River Rafting Location, Evaluation, and Analysis White water rafting has exploded into an adventure sport in the last 10 years. This explosion has broadened the business market for rafting companies in Florida, Kentucky, and California. In order to open, a new rafting business
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