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Thursday, 22 September 2011

Concept of International Law

Codes of conduct are increasingly widespread among commercial, professional and government organizations and have become quite a phenomenon in the humanitarian system in the past few years and they are increasingly being used for voluntary regulation of various sectors of society. Sometimes mandatory and sometimes...

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Monday, 19 September 2011

Private international law and public international law

International business is all commercial transactions either private or governmental-which are done between two or more countries. Private companies carry out such transactions for profit; governments may or not do the same in their transactions. Transactions that are included into business are investments, sales and transportation. On the whole, international business includes a large and increasing portion of the world’s entire business.

Private international law and public international law

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Private international law and public international law

International law has two main types: private international law (or conflict of laws) and public international law (usually just termed international law.

Private international law includes regulation of relations between states, legal entities and individuals on various private matters such as matters of copy rights, inheritance, jurisdiction, labour relations, civil or human issues, marriage and divorce, and many other topics. Some people consider private international law as the business law of the world.

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Tuesday, 13 September 2011

An issue of fact

When an issue of fact has to proved in a court of law it is necessary to first consider the burden borne by the parties.” [1] The nature of this burden remains to be one of the most controversial and complex issues in the field of modern evidence law. When examining where the burden of proof should land in any legal proceeding there are two distinct issues that arise. Firstly, the matter of producing evidence and secondly the matter of proving facts.

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Thursday, 8 September 2011

Contract formation relating to consent

A contract is defined as statement between two or more parties which agrees to exchange promises between them and  is enforceable by law. But a contract may does not have any outcome because of presence of an ineffective component which is of legal significance. In a specific occurrence, contract can be considered valid, void, voidable or unenforceable. A contract made by mentally disabled person and intoxicated person can be void. In general, it is a capacity of person to perform or produce or enforce contracts. When the law limits a person from engaging into a specified activity, any agreement to do so are either voidable or void for capacity. The law of capacity can serve either cautionary or can be way of holding back people who act agent for others.

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Monday, 5 September 2011

What Role Should Corporations Have In Fighting Bribery?

The world that we live in is like a giant set of dominos set precipitously close to one another. An unstable government, weak economy, or rampant corruption in one country has far reaching consequences. At the other end of the spectrum, however, positive action taken by one country can set the dominos spiraling as countries join together to fight against common evils.

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Thursday, 1 September 2011

Traditional Incarceration and the Community

For a long time, the judiciary has shown its protest over the issue of overcrowding within its prisons. As a result, there have been increased efforts in the last few decades to develop certain ways to deal with the convicts and where to put them (Anderson, 1997). In this regard, some options have been developed recently. These include:

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