Arbitration

The Scotland Act 1998 was responsible for the devolution of significant areas of civil law such as family law, planning law and bankruptcy law to Holyrood. The administrative workings of the Scottish legal systems are far removed from that from the rest of the UK. This includes the structures of the courts, court procedures and the funding of legal aid. (Scottish Parliament Information Centre, 2014). In Scotland, there are 3 main types of civil courts, namely, the Sheriff Courts, Court of…

In 1830, after the collapse of Grand Colombia Venezuela along with Ecuador and Colombia were formed. Venezuela is located on the northern coast of South America. It has an area of 352,144 square miles and is bordered by Guyana to the East, Brazil to the South, Colombia to the West, and the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea to the north. Venezuela is divided into four major environmental regions the coastal zone, the Andean mountain range, the plains, and the Guiana Highlands. The capital…

The spirit of fairness is a code that underpins Australian culture and one that embraces the mindset of a fair go for all. In this same spirit, unfair dismissal protection has existed in Australian workplace for almost four decades and is as such, entrenched as a workplace right, rather than privilege. Despite this, the last three decades have seen an increasing drive towards the neo-liberal economic ideals of competition, flexibility and efficiency and as consequence to this, an agenda of…

the ACAS system (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.). This is a service that has been established by the government, to act as a third party in employment…

discusses duty based theories versus consequential based theories. We did the Starving Seamen case write-up to analyze these theories of personal ethics. We found that the court acted on duty based ethics and the starving seamen acted on consequential based ethics. We also learned about the “Golden Rule” and Ethical Relativism. Chapter 3 discusses the legal system and jurisdiction of the courts. We discussed the three branches of government: the legislative branch, the executive branch, and…

For example Lance armstrong was a great cyclist and was sadly banned from cycling again for doing steroids. In the article “Which Drugs Is Lance Armstrong Accused Of Taking?” it says in the text that” Armstrong decided on thursday to avoid arbitration with USADA and accept the agency’s punishment”. Which basically means after a couple years Armstrong decided to finally confess that he actually was on steroids when he was doing the races. After when he confessed, the text said that “USADA swiftly…

You find yourself looking at a half finished or poorly constructed home improvement project following an unscrupulous contractor. At this point, you need to take a full assessment of the damages. Get the contract and the project documents out to identify the core issues. Hopefully, you didn’t pay the bad contactor upfront for any unfinished work. Be prepared, you are going to struggle making good on bad work, while you locate a new contractor to finish the project to your expectations. Every…

Arbitration of disputes: This was a political alternative that Theodore Roosevelt used in the Anthracite Coal miner strike of 1902. It states that a person or third party will hear the arguments presented from both extremes and provide a resolution that will…

form of discussion, successful product, voluntary process, and improve relationship between the parties. Disadvantages would be unequal power, failure to agree, no assurance of good faith on either side of the parties. If Funny Face decides that arbitration is the answer, they should be aware of the loss of efficiency, as well as giving up their rights. Advantages would be, having control over the resolution process, and flexibility in decision-making. Donald Magnolian may consider mediation for…

In late 2007 until mid-2009 there was the Great Recession. This Recession was the longest Recession since World War II. Some of the most notable impacts of the recession are that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dropped 4.3 percent, the unemployment rate was the highest at 10 in October 2009 (2). The Recession had not only effected the GDP and the unemployment rate, it had also effected the S&P 500 which had dropped almost sixty percent from its high in 2007 until March of 2009. As the financial…