Statutory law

The Criminal Appeal Act, Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act, Public Health (Control of Disease) Act and the Road Traffic Act describe the circumstances in which confidential information about the patient can be revealed to the statutory bodies. There are also guidelines as to how the information will be disclosed. (Dolan, 2004) During a criminal or fraud investigation, the investigator has the authority to access confidential patient information. The investigator has the…

Driven by beliefs that stricter criminal laws, increased chances of conviction and more punitive sanctions will deter criminal behavior, governments in the developed world have engaged in systematically tightening up criminal justice systems. The article makes thee basic arguments: first, that the brand of state regulation known as corporate crime has basically disappeared; second, that it has been argued into obsolescence through neoliberal knowledge claims advanced thorough specific discourses…

Prostitution has always been around and always will, it is a part of human nature. Recently Canada has put a new law in place, Bill C-36 to try and end prostitution in Canada. This law is meant to discourage prostitution by promoting an exit, and holding johns, pimps, and traffickers criminally responsible. This law was put into power on December 6th, 2014. The main changes in the law is that now buying sex is illegal, advertising services of others is illegal, and anything to do with sale of…

Choose an aspect of the law and discuss this in relation to the role of the nurse. You are required to select an aspect of law and demonstrate your understanding of how statutory considerations impact on nursing practice and on the decision making of nurses. This essay is going to focus on one of the significant aspect of law which is confidentiality and define the huge duty of this aspect in health and social care. Also to introduce two acts of UK law , human right acts (HRA) and Data…

as an absolute gift, but not by itself a reason why secret trusts ought to be enforced for the interest of the genuine beneficiates. A possible way round this problem is to give the term “fraud” a wider meaning. According to Allan’s analysis, case laws have shown that “the view that fraud must involve the secret trustee gaining personally was rejected outright”.…

to a Law Student” (Letter 1, ‘What is Law’): Summary “Letters to a Law Student” by Nicholas J McBride is a series of 20 letters from a law teacher (McBride) to his student (Alex), who is confused about his decision to pursue his decision to study law at a university. In his first letter out of 20, “What is Law”, McBride describes Alex what the law is and tells Alex that although legal education is quite interesting, pedagogic and important, would not be enough reasons for him to pursue law at a…

adequate measures are put in place by the international and domestic law for these rights to be recognised and protected. Human rights are protected both internationally and domestically. Domestically, human rights are normally protected by having a legal status in the country’s constitution or in a Bill of Rights. However before the Human Rights Act 1998 was passed, the traditional method which the United Kingdom embraced was the common law method. However, parliament passed legislation in…

age discrimination. During 1967, the federal law under the Age Discrimination Employment Act (ADEA) was enforced to protect employees’ ages 40 or older rights to work and in 1986 to protect mandatory retirement. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforcement under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “the law makes it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. The law also makes it illegal to retaliate against a…

parts of the future development breached federal laws and regulations controlling the conservation of national parks. Sierra Club maintained that they had standing to take legal action due to they were a "membership corporation with a special interest in the conservation and the sound maintenance of the national parks.” The Trial Court found that Sierra Club had standing to sue, and that they had "raised questions concerning possible excess of statutory authority, sufficiently substantial, and…

The EPA has determined that the fundamental changes to the remedy described in this ROD amendment comply with the statutory requirements of CERCLA § 121, 42 U.S.C. § 9621, are protective of human health and the environment, comply with federal and state requirements that are applicable or relevant and appropriate to the remedial action, are cost-effective, and use permanent solutions and alternative treatment technologies to the maximum extent practicable. Because this remedy will result in…