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    ethically, and in compliance with local law, corporate culture and International law. The best approach for Mr. Chong would be to report to the Regional Operating Officer responsible for Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand and to the CEO, and CFO of the Supermarket and Hypermarket Divisions of the company in Hong Kong (Inkpen, 2010). Definitely, Mr. Chong should consult this issue with top management. Jextra and Mr. Chong should also receive legal advice from a reputable law firm in Malaysia…

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    AU$18.5 billion. These figures are roughly 100 times more than 45 years ago (Global Sales and Contract Law, 2012). At the dawn of the 21st century when commerce is more integrated than ever before and jurisdictions are attempting to make themselves more commercially flexible, exercises aimed at rendering the common law less opaque and creating a common legal grammar, if not a common substantive law, should not be unduly discarded. So why has Australia taken such a ‘piecemeal’ approach to the…

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    Wrongful Life Case Study

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    Paragraph 3 – Against Wrongful life should not be recognised as a compensable tort in Australia. The High Court has been wary of making decisions about what kind of actions are compensatable since the case of Distillers Co. (Biochemicals) Ltd v Thompson (Laura Anne) [1971] which was a case arising due to the effects of thalidomide. In recent years the case of Harriton v Stephens [2006], has been the benchmark for decisions of wrongful life. In this case there was a claim for wrongful life by…

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    In law and rulings many things affect the outcome like criminal record, time period, and precedent amongst a few things but our main goal should always be justice. Procedure and process are key by all means but you may follow every step in a manual or recipe right and still produce an outcome unlike you are supposed to its human error our main goal should simply be that of justice. If we can simply take our time and be persistent the truth of every situation will make itself evident we shouldn’t…

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    currently believe that the justice system has been fair since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, but Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, has a different view. Stevenson believes that being equal under the law did not actually fix the legal system. Stevenson argues that minorities and the poor are marginalized by the American justice system. Therefore, Stevenson thinks “the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice” (18).…

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    magistrate court that deals with family law , it is also part of the queen’s bench, tribunals and all county courts, separately is the European court of justice and European court of human rights that has powers over the supreme court…

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    In Bring on More Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Shayan Zadeh discusses his and his future business partner, Alex Mehr’s citizenship in America, to later cofound Zoosk together. Zadeh begins giving his family background that leads up to when he went to school to study computer science at Sharif University of Technology is Tehran, where he soon met his business partner. He then continues to discuss his difficulties of granting citizenship into America, and how hard it was to create their idea of Zoosk…

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    “rectification of the law where the law falls short by reason of its universality.” However, minimum sentencing does not allow room for this rectification of the law. Consequently, minimum sentencing is not in line with Aristotle’s principle of equity, which is critical to true justice. Minimum sentencing ignores motives, doesn’t take into account an individual’s needs and ultimately…

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    Anti-Semitism In Andorra

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    In principle, Andorra is about anti-Semitism and its significances. All the events happen in a state called Andorra. This is not the territory of Andorra, which is a small country in Europe but a made-up country that is a symbolic value for any land. This is to highlight that what occurs here could materialise in any country, period or culture. The central character is a young male called Andri, who resides with The Teacher (majority of the minor characters in the play have no name but are…

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    1. From the perspective of a college or university, is there a difference between internal law and external law? What are the kinds of sources of law of each kind? Discuss. In examining whether there is a difference between internal and external law in relation to colleges and universities one must take note of the system of governance as it relates to institutions of higher education. Internal laws within higher educational institutions stem from internal governance structures or entities…

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