increasingly complex healthcare delivery system that challenge the ability of nurses to provide safe quality of care. Should nurses fail to uphold certain standards and by doing so cause harm or injury to the client, they would be held liable in the tort of negligence. Description of a practical situation which raised ethical issues: Mr Lim 70 years old has been hospitalised for medical treatment with the diagnosis of chronic heart failure. He was ordered intravenous therapy by Dr Peter the medical
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Topic An Assignment on Aspects of Contract and Negligence for Business ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Submitted By: ------------------------------------------------- Student ID… ------------------------------------------------- Module Name: ------------------------------------------------- Group: ……. Date of Submission: …………… Table of Contents LO1 A valid contract in a Business Context 3 1.1 The importance
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Aspects of Contract Law and Negligence UNIT# 05 Table of Content | | Introduction | 3 | Loc: 01 Understanding Essential Elements Of A Valid Contract In A Business Context Task 11: Essential Elements of Business Contract 2: Three Different Types of Business Contracts and Their Advantages And Disadvantages 3: Terms in
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4 Negligence: duty of care Learning objectives At the end of this chapter you should be able to: • have an overview of the history of negligence; • describe the function of duty of care in negligence; • appreciate the way duty of care has been defined and developed; and • apply the principles of duty of care in the areas of omissions and liability of public bodies. 04-Bermin-Chap04.indd 42 2/6/2008 7:39:32 PM 4.1 Introduction Negligence began to be recognised as a tort in its own
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UNIT 05 ASPECTS OF CONTRACT AND NEGLIGENCE FOR BUSINESS ASPECTSA Table of Contents P1.1 THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS REQUIRED FOR THE FORMATION OF A VALID CONTRACT 2 Offer 3 Acceptance 4 Consideration 4 Capacity- Concept of Minor& Privity 5 Intent to create legal relation 6 P 1.2 DIFFERENT TYPES OF CONTRACT 7 P 1.3 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONDITIONS AND WARRANTIES 8 P 2.1ELEMENTS OF CONTRACT APPLIED FOR THE BELOW SCENARIOS 8 P 2.2 TERMS IN DIFFERENT CONTRACTS 9 P 2.3 THE EFFECTS
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ASSESSMENT COVER SHEET DECEMBER SUBMISSION |Unit Number and Title |Unit 5 Aspects of Contract and Negligence – Level 4 | |Assessment Title |Aspects of Contract & Negligence | |Course Title |HND Business
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|Unit number and title | |BTEC HND IN BUSINESS | Aspects of Contract and Negligence for Business | | | | |Student name
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Fault Essay (30 marks) Fault can be defined as legal responsibility or blame for an offence or misdeed. It also refers to the mental state of the defendant. The basic principle is that a D should be able to contemplate the harm that his actions may cause and should therefore aim to avoid such actions. In general, a person cannot be criminally liable and subjected to criminal sanctions unless it can be proved that he carried out an illegal act in a blameworthy manner. An act does not make a man
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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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NEGIGENCE In the 1928 edition of Bevan on Negligence stated that negligence is “it has to deal……with duties as they appear when the normal standard of performance is not attained…considering defaults in conduct, and only in the second place with the adequate discharge of obligations”. 1. DUTY OF CARE Gleeson CJ and Gummow J, the approach to determine a duty of care is to identify the “salient features” that combine to constitute a sufficiently close relationship to give rise to a duty
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