In 2006, the Companies Act has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis whereby directors’ duties were mostly affected. For the first time directorial duties were statutorily codified and the legislator pioneering sustainable development in company law provides in Section 172(1) of the ...

Environment and life are interrelated. Our lives depend on natural resources such as air, water, and land. Environmental destruction threatens survival; conversely, human rights violations can cause environmental degradation, for instance, war can lead to loss of access to clean ...

Agriculture subsidies are the payments by the government to producers of agricultural products for the purpose of stabilizing food prices, ensuring plentiful food production, guaranteeing farmers’ basic incomes, and generally strengthening the agricultural segment of the national economy. Domestic crop ...

Impact assessment in its various forms such as EIA, SEA, HIA, SIA, etc., which number over 140 (Vanclay, 2004) have been widely recognized as a tool which helps in the task of “trying to decide whether something is a good ...

Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land becomes a desert, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife. It is caused by a variety of factors, such as through climate change(particularly the current global warming) ...

The environment is the resource base for all life and is the basis on which many of our fundamental rights depend (EDO NSW and EDO Victoria, 2009), as humans we have the right to live in a clean and healthy ...

Custom in law is the established pattern of behavior that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting. A claim can be carried out in defense of "what has always been done and accepted by law". Related is the idea of prescription; a ...

The idea of freedom of testation is a relatively short-lived and flawed notion that as holders of property rights, such freedom to do with this property, we as citizens are entitled to do what we may with our assets during ...

To determine whether Paul is entitled to recover against Dina for assault, we first look into details on what actually amounts to assault. According to the West’s Encyclopaedia of American Law, assault is an intentional act by one person that ...

Title: Case Study: Roger Daniels owns and operates a small tannery business called Rawhide Tannery which he inherited from his father in 2004. Rawhide Tannery operates from premises on the outskirts of Langdon, a small village. The tannery business employs ...