references at places to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Canada. The dynamics, trends, procedures, limitations and dilemmas of public interest litigation have also been deal with out of a huge of volume of case-law coming from Supreme Court and high court priority has been given to decisions of the Supreme
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Labour Court | The Labour Court is created in terms of section 84 of the Labour Act [Chapter 28:01]. It is a creature of statute and its area of jurisdiction is only as provided for within the four corners of the Act. Composition It consists of a Senior President and other Presidents of the Labour Court. With the recent operationalisation of the Judicial Service Act, the Labour Court now falls under the authority of the Judicial Service Commission as headed by the Chief Justice. The Senior
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Anti-Defamation League (2013), "Students have the right to engage in voluntary individual prayer that is not coercive and does not substantially disrupt the school's educational mission and activities” (para. 2). One particular case that went to the Supreme Court regarding religion in school settings was the case of Santa Fe Independent School District v. Jane Doe (2000). In the case of Sante Fe Independent School District, a student whom was also a chaplain was allowed to start each home football game
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Discipline Christopher Ziebell ACCT530 Week 4 1/29/15 Discipline to me is a type of training in order to teach someone to follow the rules. I think it applies to all of us when it comes to the professional world. When someone gets hired at new company there is always some sort of discipline in the beginning. If someone has experience in the work that they are hired to do doesn’t mean that they don’t still need training on how the company operates. I have a perfect example of this when
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foreseeability for there to be a duty of care. However, foreseeability alone is not enough to create a sufficient relationship between the host and the complainant. The deciding factor is whether there was negligence on the host’s part. However, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) stated that it is not the legal obligation of a private host to "monitor the conduct of guests on behalf of the public” (Zivot). This means that as long as the
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Case Citation | Cates v. Cates, 156 Ill. 2d 76, 619 N.E.2d 715 (1993). | Procedural History | The plaintiff filed suit in the Circuit Court, where she lost on summary judgment. The appellate court refused to affirm the trial court's grant of summary judgment. The Supreme court granted leave to appeal. | Issue | Whether parent-child tort immunity barred Plaintiff’s action against her defendant father, for negligent operation of an automobile. | Answer | No | Holding | The parent-child tort
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physical injuries. The trial court ordered petitioner to pay actual and moral damages and attorney's fees to respondents. It held that since the Deed of Sale between petitioner and Ecatine had not been registered with the Land Transportation Office, the legal owner was still the petitioner. Thus, petitioner was liable to respondents. On appeal, the Court of Appeals sustained the decision of the trial court. Hence, this petition. In affirming the assailed decision, the Supreme Court held that petitioner
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Student Institutional affiliation Abstract In this paper, I will be focusing on a brief summary of a therapy video that delves into counseling. Actors in this video are looking at real life cases involving high court ruling on issues such as confidentiality, privilege, reporting and the duty to warn. I will also look at my own findings in statures and laws as far as North Carolina is concerned. Additionally, I will give a summary of each. Finally, I will discuss
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M E M O R A N D U M TO: ABC Corporation SUBJECT: Employment Law – Racial Discrimination and Retaliation DATE: May 10, 2015 Proposed Question Will Samuel prevail in a lawsuit against ABC Corporation (ABC) for racial discrimination and retaliation? Short Legal Answer No, Samuel will not prevail in his Racial Discrimination and Retaliation lawsuit against ABC because the actions of ABC did not fall within the statutory definition of Disparate-impact discrimination. Facts of
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DIRECTORS' DUTIES – THE INSOLVENT TRADING ISSUES FROM A LAWYER’S PERSPECTIVE 1. OVERVIEW The aim of this paper is to: provide an overview of the insolvent trading provisions under Australian law; look at the liabilities which might be imposed on a director for breach of those provisions; examine the defences and in particular: when directors can rely on someone else to tell them about the solvency of their company after Manpac v Ceccatini and Scott v Williams; and the loss of the Southern
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