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Fiduciary Duties Within Australian Law

This paper examines the case of Brunninghausen vs. Glavanics (1999), and its impact on Australian laws pertaining to a company dir...

Australian Courts and Statutory Interpretation

are not necessarily the same words (or meanings) and as a result, the photographer can argue that the purpose of the import was no...

Australian Case Study on Employment Law

of the employee or worker having and injury for which compensation is payable. Mary has suffered a laceration her hand. However, ...

Insurance Contract Law and the Concepts of Misrepresentation and Non-Disclosure

Marine Insurance Act 1909 was effectually a word for word copy of the English Marine Insurance Act 1906, in addition to this the n...

Directors Duties in Australia - The Influence of the Centro Case

and the Centro Retail Group. In the former $1.5 billion of liabilities which should have been classified as short term liabilities...

Controls in Australian and English Tort Law

actionable and for the bringing of cases to be controlled. We may also argue that they also serve a purpose in restricting and cre...

Knowing Receipt and Knowledge

would be expected of a reasonable and honest man (Matthews, 2001). This is a step beyond type ii, but is also a failure on the par...

Australia's International Arbitration Law and Commercial Arbitration Law

and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Wars (the New York Convention), the UNCITRAL Model Law and the Convention on the Settlement of...

Director Compliance and the role of the Australian Securities and Investment Committee (ASIC) in Enforcing Standards

the ASIC can be considered the way it is using its power compared to the duties and standards that are expected, along with the re...

The Concept of Fiduciary Duties with Specific Consideration of Contractual Relationships

to regulate relationships that should be based on reasonable trust, with this being necessary for social and economic purposes. ...

The Increase in the Minimum Debt for Personal Bankruptcy in Australia

bankruptcy may be made. This may be seen as a change that has helped to bring the law up to date which may be seen by looking at t...

The Right to Silence and Australian Law

In conjunction, it is also necessary to understand the specific context of the claims of the impact of silence on the probative va...

English Law and Directors' Duties

can be seen as one of the key cases that outlines the legal duties of a director in terms if the duty of care in common law. This ...

Legal Problems/Family as Public and Private

1992). Women are those primarily affected by the private sphere support group, however in order to be eligible for support, certai...

Issues in Australian Law

The second basis of the appeal was that evidence of an alibi had been excluded by the initial trial judge under s.150 of the Crimi...

Does a Contract Exist?

with an acceptance of the offer by another party, this is known as offer and acceptance. For this we need to look at the case to a...

Australia, Law, and Women

In a Canadian Bar Association report, minority women working in the public sector indicated that their career choices were more li...

Amazon.com and Internet Jurisdiction

have been forced to cease operations. Today Amazon maintains sites in Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the United ...

Medieval Law and Literature in ‘Beowulf’

so important because it represents at the beginning the significance of having a male heir to carry on ancestral traditions. The ...

Duties of Trustees Over Their Investments

someone, either an individual, or an organisations, to use property, and for one reason, or another, are not able to hold the lega...

A Consideration of the Color of the Law

Numerous safeguards exist to protect US citizens from a misuse of power by officials. Officials that purport to be doing their du...

A Contract Law Case Study - David Lynch and the Melbourne Recital Group

The writer uses a case study supplied by the student to demonstrate the application of common law to an Australian contract case....

The Destruction of Native Culture in Australia

of large differences in terms of culture. The view was one of superiority, with the predominantly white immigrants perceiving them...

Lane v. Franks 2014

In 2006, Lane fired an employee because she never came to work and refused to do so. She sued. Lane was fired and filed a lawsuit....

Medical Law

In order to determine whether or not the consent form signed is valid we need to consider the concept of informed consent. The con...

Contesting a Will on Grounds of Mental Capacity

the family home, where Jill still resided, $150,000 in bank deposits as well as some antiques and personal chattels to her grandch...

Shadow and De Facto Directors

behaves, not just the directors or the officers of a company. Individuals that are not on the board may still be at...

Answering Questions on Directors Duties

Ch 656 it was established that a company could not prevent the ability to make alterations (Davies, 2001). However, this is not as...

United Kingdom's Judiciary Independence

In nine pages this paper discusses judiciary independence in the United Kingdom when a bad law has been passed in a consideration ...

Australia and Euthansia

In five pages euthanasia is examined regarding its Australian legal status with a discussion of a nonprosecuted 'assisted death' c...