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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Duty of care"”.
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Duty of care in coaching: from ethical frameworks to the development of the coach
Duty of care is not clearly defined in coaching literature, but is described as being part of the ethical framework of conduct in how a coach acts in relation to promoting the welfare of others. It is associated with the coach’s own sense of what is fair and right, both legally and ethically, …
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Regulating online hate speech and harmful content in Aotearoa New Zealand - beyond criminalisation and towards a statutory duty of care
… how social-media platforms shape the spread of harmful expression and assesses whether New Zealand’s existing legal framework is equipped to respond to these risks while maintaining the right to freedom of expression. The central question guiding the research is whether the present approach …
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The role of non-executive directors: concerns regarding the standard of liability for breach of a duty of care and skill
The importance of the role of a non-executive director (‘NED') within a given company has steadily been increasing in recent years particularly as a result of a number of high profile corporate collapses having taken place in many developed countries. In the advent of such collapses, industry …
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The extraterritorial quest for justice: the case for imposing a "duty of care" on parent companies in the absence of a binding business and human rights treaty
… violations, nor are they seen to be the primary duty-bearers. Despite this, there are no effective accountability mechanisms to hold MNCs liable in the international sphere. This often leaves victims of human rights violations without recourse or forced to seek justice in other jurisdictions. …
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Protecting South African companies against cybercrime: a critical analysis of the directors? duty of care in relation to cybersecurity and the use of artificial intelligence to protect companies? online meetings
South Africa (SA) has one of the highest rates of cybercrime in the world and SA companies' cyberassets are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Since SA companies' online meetings (OMs) are conducted on an online platform and use online databases that contain sensitive Personally Identifiable Information …
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Fiduciary Duties in Corporate Law and Privacy Law
<p>Articles 147 and 148 of the Company Law of the People's Republic of China ("Chinese Company Law") establishes that directors owe a duty of care to their companies.1 However, both of these provisions fail to explain the role of judicial review in enforcing directors' duty of care. The duty of …
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Equipment deficiencies and the injured soldier: a critical evaluation of the MoD's liability under the law of tort
There is a negative portrayal of contemporary conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan as a result of the rise in the number of deaths of service personnel. The common view of the media, coroners, military charities and academic commentators is that this is a result of the failure of the MoD and the …
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Standards of care, skill, diligence, and the business judgment rule in view of South Africa's Companies Act 71 of 2008: future implications for corporate governance
… that company directors have to play in the life of a company that they are appointed to manage. South African law (in s66 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008, the Act) has now followed the global trend of recognising that directors have original authority/mandate to manage or direct company affairs …
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Hand hygiene barriers and facilitators in Vietnam
Background/Aim The applicability of the globally-accepted hand hygiene guidelines in Vietnam is questionable due to vast differences in available resources and unique contextual challenges. Hand hygiene compliance barriers in Vietnam therefore need to be identified to assist in adapting guidelines …
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The Duty to Adapt to Climate Change
… This dissertation explores the possibility of theexistence of a legal duty to adapt to climate change in the legal jurisdictions ofQueensland, Australia and South Africa. It is argued that such a duty will most likelyfall on the government of a legal jurisdiction. The relevant policy and …
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A comparative study of selected aspects of corporate liability of directors under Swiss and South African law
Corporate liability of directors is a current issue all over the world due to the financial failures of corporations in the United States and Europe in the past years. The current proceedings in Switzerland against former directors of Swissair, who are accused of having caused the grounding of the …
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Using the medical treatment contract as an instrument for replacing the tort liability system in England.
In modern medical law, there is much criticism of the existing medical liability system in England, which is based on the duty of care and breach of that duty (negligent behaviour). The duty of care plays a crucial role as its violation is the foundation for establishing negligent behaviour. It is …
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Influential factors in driving confidence among hearing-impaired older adults in Cape Town
… shown that age-related hearing loss may have profound implications on all aspects of an individual's life, including cognitive abilities. The relationship between hearing loss and cognition has led to research which indicates an association between objective hearing loss and reduced driving …
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Advokatų profesinės civilinės atsakomybės taikymas /
The master’s thesis analyses the particularities of the application of professional civil liability of lawyers, examining both the relevant legal acts, the conclusions of legal scholars in the doctrine and the interpretations given in the case law. Every member of society has a general duty of care …
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A study of the impact of company legislation on the fiduciary duties of directors with regard to contracts with the company
… Directors are the persons who act on behalf of the company in transactions with third parties. Their functions and responsibilities arise by virtue of the company as being a separate legal personality. The company acts through its organs. One of its organs is the board of directors, which is …
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International child abduction parental child abduction to non-Hague countries: where the law is incomplete
At the forefront of human rights atrocities in recent years is the subject of the abduction of women and children, most commonly and distressingly encountered in cases of human trafficking and in more recent years increasingly found in the abduction of youngsters in war-time conflict. A surprising …
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An investigation into mild traumatic brain injury identification, management, and mitigation
… documented that there are frequent incidences of concussion across amateur and professional sport such as popular contact sports like rugby union. A primary aim of this thesis was to establish the current modalities of ‘pitch side’ concussion management, identification, and diagnosis across …
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Industrial Health Foods and Culture during Britain’s Era of Anxiety and Fatigue (1870-1918)
… at the *fin de siècle*. I focus on several of the most advertised and, by implication, popular Health Foods, specifically meat extracts (Bovril), so-called pure cocoas (Cadbury’s and Sandow’s), products containing coca or kola, especially Dr Tibbles’ Vi-Cocoa, and milk powders (Plasmon and …
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Law’s Technicality and Rich Evaluative Significances: Why (English) Law Is Not a Deontic System
The more abstract, theoretical reaches of private law scholarship are perennially afflicted by controversies over whether particular legal categorisations such as contractual obligation and duty of care genuinely ‘legally obligate’ (or whether breaches of such standards are ‘wrongs’). General …
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Multi-stakeholder study of the Malaysian mental health policy implementation within urban populations
Global studies investigating scaling-up of mental health services have highlighted mental health policy development and implementation as a priority area, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This research aimed to investigate Malaysia’s National Mental Health Policy (NMHP) development …
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