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Difficulties in Constructing Robust Legislation to Impose Enforceable Health and Safety Duties on Directors of UK Companies

a particular person responsible especially when the company also has a legal identity and can be seen as a defendant. However, alt...

Anti-Terrorism Measures in South Africa

cooperation in the matter of giving up its weapons of mass destruction. In 1989, President de Klerk decided "to end South Africas ...

The Dangers of Using a Cell Phone while Driving

driving, 2006). "Inattentive driving accounted for 6.4 percent of crash fatalities in 2003 - the latest data available - according...

Food Advertising & Children

target children as their principle demographic also have Web sites that market to children (Cowdrey 19). A child who gets bored wi...

Abuse within the Family

from friends and family, and denying the victim access to money or other basic resources" (Domestic violence, 2006). Economic abu...

AMD and ATI Proposed Merger

of AMD to purchase ATI, a graphics chip company. If we consider what this would mean and the impact it ma have on the market it is...

Federal And Connecticut Resident Rights: Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Facilities

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

Legal Issues and the Woman's Movement

professional schools" (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). The results have been amazing: "The number of women doctors, lawyers, eng...

Outline for "History of the Prospective Payment System"

(2004, August 3). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Retrieved November 11, 2006 from http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/p...

Influence on Current Real Estate Market in California

exorbitant prices in order to keep up with the real estate market boom. Many believed the year 2000 would finally allow for level...

Unsafe Driving Practices

In this essay consisting of three pages the risks of talking on a cell phone while driving are discussed and described as being as...

Attacks of September 11, 2001 and the USA Patriot Act

for Democracy and Technology (CDT), the problem is that "its very sweeping and it can apply not just to suspected terrorists but p...

Overview of Illegal Immigration in the U.S.

want to reduce the number of green cards while other members want to increase the number (Martinez, 2006). There are also "480,000...

Argument on Methamphetamine

people incarcerated. This cannot continue indefinitely. Third, legislation is needed because addicts are using up valuable medica...

Suing Fast Food Restaurants For Obesity

The dictionary defines this phrase as: "in fact, whether with a legal right or not" and "acting or existing in fact but without le...

The Victims' Rights Amendment

federal and state courts. But that didnt sit well with senators who favored a statutory approach" ("Senate Affirms," 2004). The...

Is EU Directive 95/46/ EC an Effective Model for Future Data Protection

EU Directive 95/46/ EC concerning data protection has the main aim of protecting the privacy of the citizens. This 16 page paper c...

United Kingdom's Double Tax Relief and the Impact of 2000's Finance Act

In ten pages this report which also includes an Appendix of three pages examines how the UK's double tax relief loophole closing a...

European Monetary Union and Portugal

This paper discusses the impact of EMU integration upon Portugal and the role Europe's legislation has had on the country's compet...

Firestone Tire Fiasco and the TREAD Act

In five pages this paper discusses how the Firestone tire fiasco prompted the TREAD Act legislation and considers the company's re...

Great Britain's Policy of Homosexual Consent

In five pages the British law that reduces the age of homosexual consent from 18 to 16 is examined along with the implications of ...

Seat Belt Laws As an Exercise in Futility

In eight pages this paper examines the importance of safety laws but how seat belt legislation has thus far been futile with vario...

Western Australia's OSHA The Occupational Safety And Health Act (OSHA) In Western Australia

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the Occupational Safety and Health Act of Western Australia in a consideration of such topi...

New York Penal Law § 215.14 and the Rights of Victims

compares it to other state laws as well. Applicable federal law is duly noted and the importance of the victim impact statement is...

Overview of Hate Crime

In eight pages the hate crime of racism is presented in an overview that includes various theories, legislation, study methodology...

United Kingdom's Employment Relations Act of 1999

In nine pages the employer and employee pros and cons of this Act are evaluated with comparison's made to a similar U.S. piece of ...

2 Articles on Labor and Immigration Compared

In six pages Lora Jo Foo's article on the necessity for strengthening protective legislation for the immigrant workforce is compar...

Proposing to End Violence Against Women Bill H.R. 1248

In a paper consisting of six pages the 106th Congress's bill proposal addressing the issue of violence against women is discussed ...

Legislative Injustice and Minority Cultures

This paper examines how legislation can discriminate against certain minority groups and their cultural beliefs. This fourteen pa...

Sherman Act of 1890 and Microsoft

In sixteen pages this paper examines the 1998 Microsoft antitrust case in a consideration of relevant legislation such as the prec...