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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Common Law Rights"”.
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Australia's Common Law Constitution
… legal order is the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia (the ‘Constitution’). While the Constitution has proven to be a long-lasting force for stability in Australia, it does not cover the field in terms of constitutional law. Australian lawyers have long considered what lies …
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The Human Rights Act 1998 in Constitutional Context: The Common Law, The Rule of Law, and Human Rights
The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is seen as a landmark piece of constitutional legislation that brought about many legal and political changes in the United Kingdom’s human rights architecture. Yet the HRA is vulnerable to repeal; successive governments have promised to repeal or otherwise alter the …
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The problematic nature of unregistered trademarks: an insight of Zambian law with comparative lessons from the South African jurisdiction
… trademarks are an important aspect of trademark law. Historically, the origins and use of trademarks dates to medieval times and the early developments are particularly obscure. Some legal scholars have however argued that it seems the Courts first began to protect ‘marks at the behest of traders …
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Constitutional Rights in a Common Law World: The Reconstruction of North Carolina Legal Culture, 1865-1874
… citizenship and made equality before the law a constitutional requirement. These national constitutional amendments brought revolutionary change to America's foundational law, but it was up to state and local legal actors to incorporate this change into the law that governed the everyday …
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The intersection between the Islamic law of inheritance and the South African law of succession
… provisions recognising Muslim personal law – even though the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution) makes provision for such legislation to be enacted. Consequently, Muslims have been practicing their Islamic family laws of marriage, divorce, and …
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A consideration of the fault standard in a claim for additional compensation under s 56(1) of the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Disease Act
… COIDA'). The COIDA extinguishes an employee's common law rights to sue the employer for damages4 and instead introduces a no-fault system of compensation in which the employee is guaranteed an amount of compensation, when the harm from the accidents or occupational disease arises in the …