October 30, 2010 – 8:39 pm
One of my key areas of interest and research involves considering if and when we should strip profit which has been derived from breach of contract. The landmark cases often involve former spies who have published a book without the consent of their former government employers. Such cases are made easier by the fact that [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Equity, Law, Public Policy, Restitution, Society, Terrorism
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Tagged account of profits, afghanistan war, australia, Australian politics, Books, contract law, criminal law, David Hicks, disgorgement, disgorgement damages, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, islam, privity, proceeds of crime, Terrorism, United States, United States Military Commission, war on terror
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October 30, 2010 – 6:56 am
Via the Obligations Discussion Group, I heard that a Manhattan judge has ruled that a four-year-old can be sued for negligence. Yes, seriously. The New York Times reports: Citing cases dating back as far as 1928, a judge has ruled that a young girl accused of running down an elderly woman while racing a bicycle [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Children, Fark!, Law, Motherhood, Society
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Tagged 4 year old, Claire Menagh, Juliet Breitman, Justice Wooten, negligence, New York, tort
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October 29, 2010 – 2:26 am
Police in the Maldives are to launch an investigation after a foreign couple who thought they were renewing marriage vows were in fact being subjected to a torrent of abuse. A video has emerged of the unidentified Western couple taking part in the ceremony at the Vilu Reef resort. Instead of words of blessing, the [...]
October 28, 2010 – 11:58 pm
Ministers have criticised Boris Johnson for saying he would not allow “Kosovo-style social cleansing” in London, amid a row over housing benefit reforms. Many London MPs are concerned the £400-a-week cap will force people out of the city and the Conservative mayor said that would not happen “on my watch”. Vince Cable accused the mayor [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, England, Funnies, Media, Politics, Public Policy, Society, Welfare
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Tagged boris johnson, david cameron, kosovo, London
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October 28, 2010 – 3:11 am
As those of you who’ve participated in my Bring Laws & Gods reading circle know, I’ve had to spend quite a bit of time working out where I thought Roman law would have gone had the Romans had an industrial revolution. Now their law was pretty sophisticated, as law goes. In many ways, it was [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Feminism, Law, Personal liberty, Politics
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Tagged Aboriginal Elder, Aboriginal law, aborigines, Bess Price, FA Hayek, Gaius, Hayek, japan, Japanese jurists, jurists, liberty and property, Life, Nara period, property law, Roman jurists, Roman law, Warlpiri
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October 27, 2010 – 7:05 am
From the BBC: These are tough times for newspapers. They are losing readers and advertising to the internet and desperately trying to find solutions that will save their businesses in the longterm. Rupert Murdoch thinks the answer is to charge for his papers’ content online, putting The Times, the Sunday Times and, most recently, the [...]
October 26, 2010 – 7:23 am
In discussions on the DJs sexual harassment case, I have seen a tendency for people to excuse Fraser-Kirk’s $37M claim for punitive damages. The idea seems to be, “Well, they treated her outrageously; why should she not make an outrageous damages claim against them? After all, it’s small change for them.” This post is an [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Feminism, Law, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged abuse of process, damages, Ian Callinan, Kirsty Fraser-Kirk, litigation, Mark McInnes, Momibo Pty Ltd v Adams, public policy, punitive damages, sexual harassment, tactics, White Industries v Flower & Hart
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October 25, 2010 – 9:54 pm
During the course of what is now a lengthy thread on the future and role of the humanities in higher education, Mel asked me a very thought-provoking question. It runs as follows: SL, do you have any thoughts on the theories and theoreticians popular in the humanities that derive in whole or in part from [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Academia, Philosophy, Science, Sexuality, Skeptics
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Tagged Darwin, empiricism, evolution, literary theory, metaphysics, Natural law, psychoanalysis, richard dawkins
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October 25, 2010 – 12:07 am
Five cases of cholera have been detected in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, the UN says, amid an outbreak that has killed more than 200 people… More than a million survivors of Haiti’s devastating January earthquake are crowded into tent cities around Port-au-Prince with poor sanitary conditions and little access to clean drinking water. Those in the [...]
October 24, 2010 – 7:53 am
In an attempt to drain the pus from the festering debate between science and religion — mainly over things like the teaching of ‘intelligent design’ in US schools — paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould came up with the notion of ‘Non Overlapping Magisteria’. He argued that: The magisterium of science covers the empirical realm: what the Universe is [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Academia, Law, Restitution, Science, Skeptics
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Tagged Academia, doctoral research, evolution, Graeme Turner, humanities, Intelligent Design, NOMA, Non-overlapping magisteria, Peter Birks, PhD, Restitution, Stanley Fish, Stephen Jay Gould
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