Essays on Allegation

A. Beyond the merits of the case, the chances of Edie in winning this case depend completely on the investigation of the behaviour of the defendant as the reasonable person in the similar conditions. This approach is regarded as the main pillar of the tort law that is used for the determination of the liability between the parties during legal proceedings. With that, it should be noted that there are several cases when the applicant faces difficulties in proving fault for slip and fail accidents. There are several conditions that should be met established and proved in order to ...

Introduction

Over the last few decades, there have been several changes in the roles of audit companies notably due to challenges that have affected the ethics and integrity of the institution of auditing. Traditionally, audit companies are mandated with the responsibility of analysing the financial systems, financial records as well as the compliance of companies’ financial reporting procedures with the specific national regulations. The effectiveness of audit companies in implementing these duties is extremely important in the public trust in business organizations around the world. Local and international investors rely on the accuracy of audit reports produced by audit companies ...

CHAPTER 4PART I4. How can critical thinkers counteract confirmation bias?

A critical thinker should seek information from different sources. An issue at hand is considered from different perspectives and using Six Thinking Hats technique.5 What is an expert? An expert is a person who can acquire evidence and information that are superior to those of an ordinary person. 6 What should be our attitude toward a claim that conflicts with the expert opinion? The claim that is inconsistent with the expert advice should not shut down the possibilities that the allegations are untrue. As the law may require we may be forced or use personal intuition to judge between ...

Having read the chapter on crisis communication I have learned about various types of crises well-known companies had to face. Some cases were analyzed in detail, providing a number of successful, as well as inefficient ways of crisis management. Having learned about common practices of handling such unexpected and harmful situations I’d like to try my hand at going into details of crisis communication. The case under study is the crisis of Coke India in 2003. The goal of this paper is an analysis of this crisis and my evaluation and ideas of the mentioned above incident. First ...

Introduction and Thesis Statement

St. Aquinas believes that way is sinful and waging war is unjust. He argues that “those who take to sword will die by the sword.” According to him, war is a detriment of peace and therefore a sinful endeavor. However, St. Augustine explains the validity and the justifiability of war. He believes that war, to some extent, is just and necessary (White 269). However, for a war to be just, it has to follow three conditions. A just was must that that has been sanctioned by the highest authority. It will be unjust to wage war at a personal ...

There have been far too many headlines lately regarding a dangerous phenomenon that has become all too common. Police Officers caught in the act of treating suspects in abusive, inappropriate and lethal ways without any reasonable provocation. This shocking problem has existed for some time, but as technology increases and video is difficult to avoid, it is now only making it to the general public. Instances like these have inspired horror, anger, protest and, in many cases, retaliatory violence against random officers. The people all across the United States are losing their trust and faith in their police forces ...

Discrimination against Officer Anthony Clark.

INTRODUCTION. It is said that employer’s environment differs depending on the responsibility of the job we perform; Whether employ by the private sector or Government, but most organizations and managers have sought to create a healthy and productive work force that meets their company expectation. However, an entity cannot function without the staff that turn the wheels of production, and often times organization structure tends to focus on the goals of the company and not the human elements that is involve. Neither are they aware that the negative influences had settle in the workforce causing rift among employees. ...

Following the guidelines of the course ID guidelinesStudent’s NameUniversity

The case study provides significant information about a Sex-based Discrimination case where Laurie Chadwick, an employee of WellPoint Insurance Company, brought a case against her organization under Title VII. In the case against WellPoint Insurance Company, Laurie mentioned that her employers ignored her promotion showing sex-based stereotype such as she has children. Now, considering the severe violation of federal law, this particular paper will figure out which laws were breached. Furthermore, supporting arguments have been produced in this paper in favor of the plaintiff. Added to that, the essence of further organizational training to mitigate such issues has been ...

The Documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side" was created by the BBC World Service and produces by the Discovery Channel. The directory and the writer Alex Gibney takes an investigative journey to show the disturbing details concerning how the United States' military were working with their subjects during the period of War in the Afghanistan. The documentary focuses on the detention center called Bagram that is located in the southern Afghanistan. The paper would show why I view this movie as an excellent documentary. Over the years since the "war on terror" began hundreds of prisoners, who have been ...

Introduction

Roberts (2003, p.89) argued that performance appraisal is a controversial management tool that provides answers to problems within the system design and administration of organizations. Majority of the organisations have adopted appraisal systems to enable it gauge employee performance in trying to boost morale, and reward them accordingly. However, despite the importance and popularity of the performance appraisal in organisations, its implementation and effectiveness have been controversial (Liu and Dong, 2012, pp. 150). In fact, some studies revealed that there are many performance appraisal systems that have completely failed to motivate employees to do a better job (Oh and Lewis, 2009, ...

Arbitrations, having their seat in England, are governed by the Arbitration Act of 1996, which is based on the UNCITRAL model law. The major international arbitration bodies affected by this jurisdiction are the London Maritime Arbitrators Association and the London Court of International Arbitration. However, it is also common for arbitrations that fall under the rules of other international bodies to base their cases in England. Based on a number of mandatory rules, the disputing parties are always at liberty to agree on the procedure for their arbitration or to employ institutional rules. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the provisions ...

Executive Summary

McDonalds is a highly respected organization in the United States as well as the rest of the world. The company is famous of its exclusive contribution and competition in the fast food industry. The company has a wide history that dates back to 1940 since the company was started. Since that time, the company has been operational through exclusively unique strategies that define its prowess in the fast food industry and as an international company from the United States. The company chose the franchise business strategy to try to reach the global markets, which were extremely promising and which had ...

Sexual harassment is one of the business ethical issues in the workplace. It is discrimination that is based on sex. Sexual harassment can be defined as inappropriate sexual advances, either physical or verbal sexual conduct and sexual favor requests when: inappropriate conduct interferes with the work performance of the affected individual or if the choice of the affected individual on the unwelcomed conduct interferes with an employment decision. A company or business premise should be on the lookout for any signs of sexual harassment as it poisons the working environment for the other employees. This avoids any escalation to ...

Inappropriate Behavior

Business Inappropriate Behavior

Harassment proscribed under law includes ‘unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature’ (US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, n.d.a.). Marwan’s actions against his co-worker involved an unwelcome sexual advance. Title VII of the US Civil Rights Act prohibits Marwan’s conduct with his fellow worker.

Applicability to Park Guests

According to the US Equal Opportunity Commission, the culpability of being tried under Title VII of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 for sexual harassment is extended to the victim’s supervisor, a different supervisor in the firm, a co-worker, ...

Born in Cambodia, Mam rose to a height of being the CEO of Somaly Mam foundation-an anti-sex trafficking NGO. However, her life was soon to be followed by triumph after triumph of fabricated stories. Nevertheless, Abb Sher an award-winning author wholly believes that Mam played a significant role in helping young girls trapped in the sex trade. She tells the riveting stories of how Mam helped three survivors of sexual slavery. Abb Sher brings forth voiceless victims as well as the courageous girls who escaped the ordeal through Somaly Mam foundation. ‘Instead of running from her past, she chose to help ...

The First Amendments legal concepts indicated in these case facts are defamation. It occurs when one makes a statement of purported fact that paints a person’s behavior or action as negative, and it tends adversely to damage the reputation of the person and that is communicated through publication to someone who is not the injured party. In this case, the defamation is in the form of libel. The source of law that provides the legal test that should be applied in resolving this conflict is constitutional law. The U.S Constitution provides for the protection of rights of the citizens. ...

About Google Corporate Social Responsibility & Strategy

The globally renowned Google brings innovation not only in the IT world but also in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The company develops CSR programs throughout the world, striving to make the world a better place by improving the livelihood, education and sustainability in small and global communities. Google’s involvement in the community implies active education for developing the conservation and sustainability of local resources through the use of technology. Through Google Impact program, various contests addressed to nonprofit organizations encourage them to come with innovative solutions for helping their communities, by awarding with money the most ...

Did Qatar bribe FIFA officials to obtain the 2022 World Cup bid? The process of bidding for the 2022 and the 2018 FIFA world cup involved making a decision on the venues for the staging of the 2022 and 2018 World Cup events. The bidding process commenced on March year 2009. A total of eleven bids from thirteen nations was received by the executive committee of FIFA. One of the bids was rejected and another one withdrawn. During the bidding process, bids for the 2022 came from Qatar, Japan, United States, South Korea and Australia. The process of bidding ...

Most significant purpose of any legal system is to punish guilty and defend those who are innocent. There are two common criminal justice trial systems, inquisitional system and adversarial system, that are used to determine whether an alleged person is guilty or not. Both these legal system ensure that guilty should be punished but any innocent person should not suffer in the hands of law however different measures are applied by inquisitional system and adversarial system in this process. Both legal systems are capable in adjudicating disputes irrespective of the fact that both systems have been developed in ...

Enron Company by Kenneth Lay in 1985 began its operation after the merger of two companies, Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth Company. Under Kenneth Lay as the Chief Executive Officer of the company, the company started hiring employees. The company had a significant number of 21, 000 employees and an outstanding production performance. Its headquarters was situated in Houston, Texas. After the merger of the two companies, Enron was praised for its effective strategies of penetrating the market and acquiring a significant income. Its main objective was to create market for further expansion and diversification. The company employed some measures in ...

In the book The Decline of Men, Garcia instigates his discussion of the American male’s loss of power precisely at the Burning Man Festival. In an eye-opening exploration of today’s American manhood, Guy Garcia elaborates on how the majority of the men are so much struggling to actually redefine the true meaning of being a man in today’s world is. Packed with informed pop culture and startling statistics and illustrated in the entertaining style for which Guy Garcia is known, he comprehensively sheds light on a problem that has seemingly wreaked havoc on the American family urging both ...

Probation, in the criminal justice context, is the period which a convicted person (probationer) is subjected to supervision, critical examination and intense evaluation. A judicial court is the only institution with the authority to order probation on a convict. Probation is ordered in lieu of incarceration. However, it does not mean that the convicted person is set free. An order of probation has conditions often imposed by a statute. It is given for rehabilitative purposes. However, the trial judge has the discretion to impose more conditions on a probation sentencing to meet the interests of the public and the offender. The conditions imposed ...

Introduction

Trade was one of the most important economic activities of the ancient civilization. Initially trade was mainly conducted on land .As the scope of the activity expanded with time, another mode of transportation; water transport started to become gradually important and started to attract the attention of commercial enterprises. As this mode of transport became more important, there arose a need for the formulation of insurance scheme to protect the water vessels, the passengers, and cargo for the various risks that they faced in this transport mode. Marine insurance is therefore one of the oldest forms of insurance that has ...

As reported to the Wall Street Journal, a Sao Paolo based prosecutor Marcelo Camargo Milani has registered civil charges in the Sao Paolo State Court against the Brazilian subsidiary and two high ranking executives of Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), one of the world's largest property investors based in Toronto with assets worth over $10 billion under management, for allegedly committing bribery to acquire construction permits. According to a Brookfield spokesperson, the allegation of bribery is baseless and has been raised by a distraught former employee named Daniela Gonzalez, a former chief financial officer of the Brazilian subsidiary, who was fired in 2010. This ...

Article Analysis

Millennium Laboratories’ case is a complex investigation conducted in tribunals for two charges, different, but linked in the same time. The company was sued by former employees for misconduct and intimidation, but is also facing a health care fraud allegation. The journalistic analysis conducted by Duff Wilson in a Reuters material reflected the case somehow biased, accusing the company, and this because there is little reference to how Millennium defended its case. Nonetheless, this situation can be explained, because the company has declined to comment on the allegations or on the various accusations for mistreatment, intimidation or bribery, which indicates that the ...

Introduction

Sathya Sai Baba was born on 23 November 1926 and was named Sathya Narayana Raju. He is a famous yet controversial guru in India having numerous followers and groups in countries around the world. He claimed in his teen age that fakir Shirdi actual “Sai Baba” was reincarnated in him. On this basis he renamed himself as Sai Baba. He further claimed to be omnipotent and omniscience in subsequent years. In his influential regions he was known to have manifested holy ash and other little objects like watches and rings which he claimed to materialize from nothing. His followers still ...

Criminal Defense

In most jurisdictions, when an individual is accused of a criminal offense, he or she must appear in court of law to answer the charges (Farrell, 2008). In this circumstance, the accused individual is known as the defendant. Therefore, as a defendant, one is supposed to establish a criminal defense with the assistance of a criminal attorney in order to avoid a guilty verdict (LexisNexis, 2012). The prosecutor is the other party which tries to prove that the criminal act performed by the defendant is factual. A criminal defense can be described as a strategic argument which attempts to confront the legitimacy and satisfactoriness of ...

The article is about the report of the death of the late former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi in the Guardian media. In the article are allegations about the location of killing of Gaddafi, the possible killer and the likely time when he was killed. The allegations came from different sources around the world. In one source, it was said the Gaddafi had been killed by a NATO strike on his escape from his loyal home town of Sirte. Another report from a representative of Libya in the United Kingdom claimed that Gaddafi was captured alive when on an escape from Sirte ...

Topic: Business Law

1. Explain how this scenario relates to an area of law taught in Introduction to Business Law. (2 marks) Introduction to business law is a phenomenon that aids business mangers and everyone within the business environment to be aware of the legal environment that the business operates in. C & A engages an internal auditor to carry out auditing of their financial books of accounts and through intimidation, Julia who has been engaged as the internal auditor caries out the task negligently and later an external auditor is engaged to check on the correctness of the financial books. Fortunately or ...

Intention of the report

The teaching profession is one of the most challenging fields of human lives since it involves molding the behavior and character of different students from the diverse society. Because of the diversity of the students, tutors and lecturers encounter so many activities by students and all of these they are required to deal with them accordingly. An interesting part is that many students influenced by peer groups and the need to belong to a group always plan for various activities. However, there are those who know what they came to do in school and for them they concentrate on their ...