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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"reasonable person"”.
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"Reasonable Person" vs. "Reasonable Woman": An Evaluation of the Standards Used in Determining Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment
… sexual harassment. Traditionally the "reasonable person" has been used as the viewpoint from which to evaluate potentially harassing behavior. However, the historical 1991 federal court case Ellison vs. Brady introduced the "reasonable woman" standard due to the belief that the …
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Tackling the Measurability Problem of Physical Pain in Personal Injury Cases: The Case for Remembered Pain and for Disregarding Race and Gender
… what is the maximum sum of money that a reasonable person would have been willing to pay to eliminate the risk of ending up with the remembered pain sustained by the plaintiff. This formula is superior to previous proposals because it focuses on the harm of the victim and on the ex ante …
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Comparison of legal standards in sexual harassment hostile work environment
<p>This research compares the previously studied reasonable person and reasonable woman legal standards with a new reasonable employee standard on hostile work environment sexual harassment. Participants included 115 college students from a mid-Atlantic university. Measures were taken across …
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Sexual harassment jury instructions' effects on jury decisions
<p>This study compares the effect of reasonable standards on the jury's verdict in a sexual harassment lawsuit. One hundred and fifty seven participants (82 males, 74 females and 1 unidentified), ages ranging from 16 to 90, (M= 22.74) were randomly divided into juries (7 reasonable woman, 8 …
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John Rawls ir Chantal Mouffe demokratijos projektų palyginimas /
… These principles would suit every different reasonable person as it would in no way interfere with moral, religious or philosophical views. However, consensus on political principles of justice received provocative critique from radical democratic theorists who suggested an alternative to …
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Informed consent for peripheral nerve blocks at a tertiary level hospital in South Africa: a quality improvement project
… Cape Provincial Division) dictates that all reasonable patients be told of material risks and alternative options before consenting to medical treatment or procedural interventions. The reasonable patient standard requires that a patient be told of all material risks that would influence a …
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Companies in Private Law: Attributing Acts and Knowledge
… attribution in private law. Unlike human persons, companies are artificial legal persons. They lack a physical body with which to act, and a mind with which to think. English law therefore developed the concept of attribution so that legal rules could be applied to companies. Attribution …
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Deus ex Machina: Legal Fictions in Private Law
This PhD dissertation is about legal fictions in private law. A legal fiction, broadly, is a false assumption knowingly relied upon by the courts. The main aim of the dissertation is to formulate a test for which fictions should be accepted and which rejected. Subsidiary aims include a better …