Proximate cause

law is the body of laws regarding civil wrongs that cause harm to another person because of something that the tortfeasor did or failed to do. This harm can be a physical injury, a financial loss or damages that would not have occurred but for the lack of due care or reasonableness of the tortfeasor. Tort laws offer remedies to the plaintiff…

liable if their failure to act upon a situation causes an injury. There are primarily five elements to be deemed negligent. They are as follows; (1) Defendant owed a duty of reasonable care; (2) Defendant did not behave in a reasonable manner to demonstrate care; (3) Plaintiff suffered an injury as a result of the defendant's actions or inactions; (4) The injury caused actual damages; (5) Proximate cause: defendant's actions or inactions were the cause of the injury…

“$1,108,067 and gave the mother and step father $5,000 each.” The courts ruled in this way because according to Heinonline (2016) The rationale typically given for the rule is that consumption of the alcohol rather than its provision is the proximate cause of the intoxication. 2 0 Therefore, the rule precludes any common law negligence-based right of recovery from the supplier for injury or damage resulting under these circumstances (p. 846). College…

undertook to protect the shareholders’ individual interests in the audits as distinct from the interests of the corporations themselves. The Supreme Court of Canada held – precedent Foss v. Harbottle (which provides that individual shareholders have no cause of action in law for any wrongs done to the corporation) affects the appellants’ action. The grounds for the motion were (a) that there was no contract between the…

funding disparities” this article shows how there still some discrimination in the workplace. This article shows that women are discriminated in the science field. I agree with this there is not much female in the science field also math. This could be cause by teacher’s low expectation. In the other hand, some men still think women should be at home taking care of the house and the kids, and this idea comes from years ago when woman was not allow to work. There is also some disparity in same…

Modern philosophy presented several important contributions to different matters, such as rationalism. Rationalism is the explanation, and understanding of the universe through the use of the human mind. Spinoza, and Kant are two major modern philosophers, who provided their own philosophical systems involving rationalism. Spinoza’s interpretation involving rationalism was partly succeeded by Kant. Spinoza considered rationalism to provide guidance in human understanding. In order to…

In this published book, Agnew provides the substructure of integration into just one cumulated position by assessing the ways of the postulations themselves, unlike anterior other criminologists that have failed or just didn’t get proximate enough to prove its subsisting function. Instead, Agnew takes a inversion approach in which organizing his book around theories, he organizes it around the key scopes of analysis, which are the definition of malefaction, free will or determinism, human nature…

1. The employer is protected for their reference as long as they meet two criteria. The first is that all the facts of the case must be factual. The judge in this case cited nothing that would indicate that the defendant was not being honest about the incident. They had a policy that drivers would be terminated for any accident that involved one of their drivers rear-ending another driver, and that is exactly what happened. The second is that the defendant did not act with malice. The judge…

There are lots of relevant factors involved, but the fact that guns are proximate causes isn 't one of them. So, should all guns be illegal; after all, like the bazooka or an they do make killing people in mass easier to accomplish. Gun control should be effectively carried out and regulated properly within a county if citizens are…

Regardless of my position the situation contains apparent root and proximate causes that illuminate the reason they continue to happen. For instance, a black teenage student was assaulted by an officer in a classroom at Spring Valley High School. The officer was called to the classroom at the teacher’s request due to her refusal…