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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"General Law"”.
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Violence, Causality, and the Emergence of Mexico's General Law on Forced Disappearance
In November 2017, Mexico passed the General Law on Forced Disappearance, the first comprehensive legal measure of its kind to address the phenomenon of missing persons amidst rising insecurity. At the time of its enactment and after eleven years of extreme violence coinciding with the drug war, …
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The extent to which unconscionability at general law, the special equity in Garcia and Part IVA of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (CTA) are available to a debtor or guarantor when a finance provider seeks to enforce a security
… provider. Recently the Australian Consumer Law has been enacted. Over time it is anticipated that debtors and guarantors of loans by finance providers will be able to escape liability by reason of conduct which contravenes this legislation. This thesis examines the circumstances in which …
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Housing for Whom: Does Adherence to Massachusetts' 40B Provide Adequate Stock of Housing Types Needed at the Local Level?
Massachusetts General Law 40B has been in effect for over 50 years, yet the housing affordability crisis in the state persists. It is well established that onerous bureaucratic permitting requirements, along with restrictive zoning ordinances constrain the housing market and serve to drive up …
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Municipal Governance and Financial Health: An Analysis of the Institutional Structures of California Cities
… stronger fiscal health compared to their general law, mayor-council, and full-service counterparts.</p> <p>To test these hypotheses, an ordinary least squares regression analysis is conducted to evaluate the relationship between the various institutional structures and a city’s financial …
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Exactitude et précision de la mesure de superficie de parcelle de culture
… way to eliminate them and which obey the general law of normal distribution. Three formulas are selected according to instruments available to compute the culture parcel area: (1) Area by polar coordinates, (2) Area by rectangular coordinates and (2) formula of Sarron. When parameter …
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Neoliberalization of educational policy discourses in Chile
… ideas were rearticulated in Chile’s new General Law of Education (LGE). The LGE can be regarded as a response to the shortcomings of the neoliberal logic embedded in its predecessor, the Constitutional Organic Law of Education (LOCE), a law promoting school competition and privatization …
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Enhancing access to justice in Zimbabwe: an empirical exploration of integrating socially appropriate dispute resolution to overcome barriers within the formal justice system
Colonialism introduced common law in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The colonial regime subsequently relegated indigenous laws, rules, and epistemologies to the status of informality, except for those that did not offend European notions of justice and morality. Despite colonial onslaughter, relegated …
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Breaking barriers : an examination and recommendations regarding the role of clean distributed electricity generation in Mexico
Through the 2013 Energy Reform, the Law of Energy Transition, and the General Law of Climate Change, the policy makers in Mexico have aimed to lower electricity tariffs, generate 35% of electricity from clean energy sources by 2024, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% in 2020 and 50% in 2050 …
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The Hollow Promise: 'Guarantee of Title' in Registered Land
… commentary of His Majesty’s Land Registry, the Law Commission, academic publications and legal cases to identify the intended effect and ambit of the purported ‘guarantee’. This thesis evaluates the features of registration deemed relevant to the ‘guarantee’ concept in this external commentary …
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Implied Obligations of Good Faith in English Contract Law
The concept of ‘good faith’ in English contract law has been the subject of intensified debate in the last decade. This has been precipitated partly by developments in other jurisdictions, as well as being influenced by academic and extrajudicial writings. By far the most impactful driver of the …
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Curricular reform of the study plan of Bachelor in English Teaching and its correspondence to students’ needs, Foreign Language Department, University of El Salvador year, 2014
… these curricular plans, according to the law, must be updated in order to fulfill the expectations of the new society requirements. The University of El Salvador is one of the highest educational institutions, best known as the “Alma Mater” since the quality of its education is one of the …
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Towards an effective enforcement of environmental criminal law : re-thinking sanctions for air pollution criminals in Iraq
… issues is the overlap in Iraqi environmental laws which present judges with conflicting regulations as well as penalties which inadequately reflect the severity of the damage resulting from wilful breaches of the law. Conflicting laws also lead to lengthy delays in rectifying the misdemeanour …
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Whistleblowing at work : the legal implications for employees of making disclosures of confidential information
… rights of the whistleblowing employee in English law are then considered. In chapter three case law on the duty of confidence is examined and conclusions drawn on its application to employees dismissed for blowing the whistle, with particular reference to whether disclosure of information involves …
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Good faith in contract law : a comparative analysis of English and German law.
… an important role to play in English contract law, where the elements necessary for its recognition already exist. Nevertheless, the issue has divided the contract community. Although there is strong support for the recognition of such a concept, it is more often rejected on the basis that it …
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'Blowing in the Wind?': Environmental Liability of Corporations for Atmospheric Damage in Chile
Chilean Law 19,300/1994—the General Law of the Environment—provides a statutory mechanism for holding polluting corporations liable for the damage that they cause to the environment. It works as an adjudicative and adversarial framework for finding liability and ordering remediation measures to …
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The Kenyan regulation of company directors: an analytical study
… are easy to understand. • Important areas of general law should be codified. • Company directors should have non-statutory guidance to their duties and responsibilities. • Directors are properly appointed; directors have regard for their duties. • Shareholders have adequate means of enforcing …
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The householder defence in Canada and England and Wales: between proportionality and penal populism
… force will be thoroughly introduced via criminal law theory. In this theoretical chapter, the most significant criminal law theoretical approaches to the householder defence and its authorization of force will be discussed, namely: choice-of-evils theory, forfeiture theory, rights-based theories, …
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Los actos denigratorios en la legislación española
… denigratorios en la Ley de Marcas y en la Ley General de la Publicidad. Desarrollamos también una amplia revisión de la jurisprudencia relevante en materia de actos denigratorios en el marco de la competencia desleal. La tesis pretende demostrar, a través del análisis de la legislación, la …
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La pirateria marittima negli stretti di Malacca e Singapore in prospettiva storica e attuale
… in human and social terms it produced, which law enforcement measures riparian states and foreign countries (in colonial and post-colonial age) have come into force; in addition to these I had tried to understand who is the pirate, what are the main reasons for his actions, what is the …
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Economic Growth and Public Debt: Beyond Debt-Thresholds. Theoretical and Empirical Issues.
… Reinhart and Rogoff’s work was affected by many flaws, it has spurred buoyant empirical research in search of the general debt thresholds above which growth is jeopardised by public debt. Further works have supported the existence of critical debt-to-GDP ratios under various time and space …
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