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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"1801 Law"”.
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Legal framework for promoting minority shareholders' protection in Thailand
… frameworks from other jurisdictions into Thai law is feasible; and (iii) what the obstacles to legal reforms are.
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Self-determination and human rights : a study of the Kashmir issue
Self-determination is commonly defined as peoples‘ free will to choose the course of their national life. The United Nation‘s (UN) Charter was adopted in 1945 to ensure the right to self-determination of all peoples as a means of maintaining international peace and security. Since then, the UN has …
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Investment laws in Saudi Arabia : restriction and opportunities
… the mechanisms by which the KSA can uphold its laws as well as profit from an increasing infusion of funds by overseas investors. The research yields several interesting insights into various aspects of the KSA investment climate, and concludes with a series of recommendations that are designed …
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Money laundering and terrorism financing : does the Saudi Arabian Financial Intelligence Unit comply with international standards?
Over the last decade, there has been an increase in the number of money laundering and terrorist financing crimes across the globe. In a bid for authorities to control these criminal activities both locally and internationally, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) 40+9 Recommendations were …
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Sections 263 and 264 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936: a privacy perspective and review of overseas experience
… (ii) the recommendations of the Australian Law Reform Commission Privacy Report 1983 and (iii) relevant overseas experience. An important issue for discussion is the lack of judicial authorisation over the Commissioner of Taxation's powers of entry and search of premises. An aim of the study …
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Court-annexed and judge-led mediation in civil cases: the Malaysian experience
… the development of mediation in selected common law jurisdictions. Its findings are drawn from that literature and also from two empirical studies: a survey of lawyers in Sabah and Sarawak and interviews with selected interviewees in East and West Malaysia, including judges. The findings …
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Conflict in the compact city : preferences and the search for justice
In this study the high density housing sector was studied as a domain for the development of an alternative model of dispute management to that contained in the relevant statutory regime. This formed the basis for a simulation that would empirically test two hundred and fifty-two participants on …
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Personal income tax non-compliance in Malaysia
A modern tax system was first introduced into the Federation of Malaya by the British in 1947. This was subsequently repealed and replaced by the Income Tax Act 1967, which came into effect on 1 January 1968. Subsequently, the Inland Revenue Board (IRB), formerly known as the Inland Revenue …
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Digital democracy in Malaysia : towards enhancing citizen participation
… and also its government’s ICT agendas; and, laws structuring citizen participation in government in Malaysia, framed within autopoietic theory. This, as a metaphor, offers a flexible perspective of law’s affect on its environment and vice versa, and, further illustrates and emphasises the …
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An analysis of the role and performance of audit committees in the Victorian government public sector in providing assurance and governance
The purpose of this thesis has been to identify and analyse: the role of audit committees, the attributes of audit committee members, and the functions and activities that they perform in government-funded public sector organisations, focusing on Victorian government organisations. This research …
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The economics of copyright, parallel imports and piracy in the music recording industry
… of international intellectual property rights law. This leads to a critical evaluation of the controversy surrounding the exhaustion of copyright and the case for copyright owner control over parallel imports.
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Governance, Regulation and Performance of Non-listed Small Corporations in Australia: a Structural Equation Modelling Approach
… all model” adopted by most of the corporations’ law frameworks and the “comply or explain” mentality places a significant amount of unnecessary and disproportionate compliance burden on small businesses. Worse still, non-listed small corporations are losers of the “corporate governance reform …
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Corporate social responsibility and company performance : evidence from Sri Lanka
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) developed in the Western world since the 1950s, is novel to developing countries. Various CSR principles, standards, frameworks and indices have grown significantly as researchers to expand the concept in business and academic worlds. The …
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Corporate governance practices and firm performance of listed companies in Sri Lanka
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between corporate governance practices and firm performance in Sri Lanka, as a result of the adoption of code of best practice on corporate governance in 2003 and the extent of changes to corporate governance practices four years after …
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The Port Phillip magistrates, 1835-1851
Social histories of how people lived in the early years of the Australian colonies have generally underestimated the significance of the magistracy. This dissertation undertakes a detailed legal examination of a sample of the cases brought before the magistrates of the Port Phillip District, as …
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The limitations of law pertaining to incest cases: observations of the confines inherent in the current criminal jurisdiction of the County Court of Victoria, which may limit justice for the victims of incest, and the resultant equivocal footing of social policy in this area
… area of redress for victims. However, the law attempts to deal with these private moral perplexities in the objective and constrained manner representative of the court system. This may not be reconcilable with just outcomes. Social policy's footing in this arena appears to be equivocal, …
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The appointment of a voluntary administrator by unsecured creditors : a case for the introduction of such a right
… scheme under Part 5.3A of the Corporations Law. So significant are these changes that current statistics show that as much as 48 % of all external appointments over "insolvent" companies are by the appointment of a Voluntary Administrator. The scheme fails to allow the largest class of …
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Historical trends in occupational health and safety in Victoria
This thesis reviews the history of Occupational Health and Safety legislation in Australia from its conception in attempts to regulate the factory system in the mid-nineteenth century until the passing of the Occupational Health and Safety Act in 1985 in Victoria.
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The Analysis of Corporate Governance Practices and Their Impact on Minority Shareholder Rights in the Thai Banking Sector
This study, supported by the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), investigated the responses of institutional investors in Thailand to corporate governance practices that promote minority shareholder rights. The study examined the compliance of banks with corporate governance standards in the …
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An expert system for a legal office
… of cases that appear before the Family Law Court in Australia. IT is used to assist in two processes. The first process is the intelligent gathering and preparation of information for Family Law cases. The second process is the modeling of case-decisions by the Family Law Court. The …
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