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    St. Paul V. Uber Case

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    investigatory stop and what doesn't warrant one. In this case, there had been no reason for the Terry stop on Uber. The reasonable suspicion that is needed to make a Terry stop a lawful stop would be if the officer witnessed any behavior by Uber that would indicate, one is required. Terry should take place when the observable behavior of a driver gives the police particular reason to have a reasonable suspicion, which constitutes a Terry stop to investigate the driver. An example, if the…

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    Negligence Research Paper

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    providing a strict guideline as to what is and what is not a negligence action. Negligence is when someone may fail to assert a reasonable degree of care to another to avoid foreseeable harm. A person may be negligent if he or she does not act as a reasonable person who would under similar circumstances. As a result, due to the person not demonstrating what a reasonable person may have done, the ‘plaintiff’ was caused some sort of damage. For negligence action to arise the plaintiff must prove…

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    negligence of Aldi store cause of injury to Tamara. Rules-the rule in accordance to the facts is:- Negligence-it is called a situation i which an individual owes another individual a duty of care,it is a deficiency or a failure to do a thing which a reasonable person would or would not, do and which leads to a harm or an injury to another person in a result. In South Australia the civil liability Act 1936 (SA) is used to find out the negligence of a person and the liability the will face as a…

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    exercise a reasonable degree of care and diligence in fulfilling their authority or duties, regardless of actual damage occurred or not, if it was reasonably foreseeable that the conduct might detriment the company, the shareholders, and, the creditors of the company, when the company is in a perilous financial…

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    Tort Law Research Paper

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    This paper gives a short introduction of tort law and mainly focus on the standard of care, how the courts determining what is the ‘reasonable person’ and whether there are some exceptions to the courts. The law of tort is the law of civil liability for wrongfully injury which provides remedies to individuals harmed by the wrongful conduct of others in order to protect an individual’s private rights. There are two major categories of torts: intentional tort and negligent tort. The general…

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    this case when we ask the same questions as above we find that Lynette did breach her duty of care to Karen by knowingly driving a car with faulty brakes on a public highway. When we apply an objective test “the reasonable man standard” to this case, it could be said that the reasonable man would not have driven the car until it was fixed, further showing that Lynette should indeed be found liable in this…

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    Negligence Act Case Study

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    Act Introduction: Lead that falls beneath the norms of conduct built up by law for the insurance of others against irrational risk of hurt. A man has acted carelessly in the event that he or she has withdrawn from the lead expected of a sensibly reasonable person acting under comparable conditions. With a specific end goal to set up carelessness as a Cause of Action under the law of TORTS, an offended party must demonstrate that the litigant had a duty to the offended party, the respondent…

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    Tort Essay

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    Defination The law of tort is defined as a body of rights, obligations and remedies that is applied by courts in civil proceedings to provide relief for individuals or victims (claimant or plaintiff) who have suffered harm from the wrongful acts of others (defendant). Parties which can acquire an action the law of tort Any individual can sue utilizing the law of tort. There is the potential for kids, kids who are conceived with handicaps because of mischief perpetrated preceding conception and…

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    California Vs Murray

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    negligence is an action done carelessly by the defendant which results in the plaintiff getting harmed. The four elements of negligence are: duty, breach of duty, causation, and damages. The reasonable person standard applies to the defendant, so that the harmful situation can be fixed. The three elements of the reasonable person standard are: likelihood of the occurrence, seriousness of the harm, and the cost to eliminate the harm. The case of California v. Murray (The People of California v.…

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    Reasonable suspicion protects the suspects, while it allows the police to do their job the right way. In orders to balance the power of the police with the rights of suspect, PACE was introduce as guideline. Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 states that the police can search an individual at a “place to which at the time when he proposes to exercise the power the public or any section of the public has access, on payment or otherwise, as of right or by virtue of express or implied…

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