A tort can be defined as a wrongful act or omission which gives rise to a civil action in a court of law against the party that committed the wrongful act. The tort of negligent misstatement is defined as an ...

The law of negligence applies to collisions at sea and there is generally no problem in finding that a duty of care exists between colliding ships. Under the established neighbourhood principle [1] , a ship owes a duty of care to other ...

The directors’ duties to the company were governed by the common law of negligence and the equitable principles of fiduciary duties before the CA 2006. The CA 2006 has brought an important change of codification. [1] This codification of the general duties ...

Historically, the European Convention of Human Rights 1950 has brought Human Rights Act 1998 in United Kingdom whereby there is no need to travel to European Court of Human Rights because, the domestic Courts has conferred Human Rights Act 1998 ...

Introduction The federal Government commissioned a major review of the law of negligence. A panel chaired by Justice Ipp issued a final report in September 2002. The reforms are mostly focused on the area of medical negligence. In total the ...

What is negligence Negligence is a failure to take reasonable care to avoid causing injury or loss to another person. There are four steps in proving negligence. The plaintiff must prove: that there is a duty in the circumstances to take care duty of ...

Introduction The doctrine which states that people have the right to legally bind them is known as freedom of contract. Freedom of contract is a judicial concept which holds that contracts are based on mutual agreement and free choice. Therefore, ...

Having completed 60 years of our Constitution being in force, India’s literati has been prone to introspection on the seeds sown on the day of January 26th, 1950 and the distance we have travelled since then. Taking the cue from ...

The entire period of administration in independent Bangladesh in its thirty-five years of history can be divided almost fifty-fifty into presidential and parliamentary forms of government, interrupted by two military and several years of military take-over of administrations. While the ...

Bankruptcy is a legal process Since the debtor is unable to pay his debts, the assets should be shared fairly and equitably among his creditors and after being relieved from all further liabilities, he will be allowed to have fresh ...