A recent 2020 decision of the British Columbia Supreme Court,Virk v. Satnam Education Society of B.C., was a reminder that in wrongful dismissal litigation, the employer has the burden to prove an employee's failure to mitigate. When an employee has been wrongfully dismissed, they are obligat...
Roman law was closely influenced by Greek philosophy, however its detailed rules were developed by skilled jurists and had been extremely subtle. In medieval England, royal courts developed a physique of precedent which later grew to become the common law. A Europe-wide Law Merchant was formed i...
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Taiwan rules in favor of same-sex marriage Taiwan's judicial body Wednesday ruled that the current laws that request "marriage between a man and a woman" must be amended, or a new law passed within two years to protect the rights of same-sex couples. Cooperation grows between China, B&R ...
Beyond climate change, the planet faces several other environmental challenges that are at least as threatening, such as the loss of biodiversity. In each
legislation of 1883–1889, there grew an entrenched expectation that the state and the church, together with their welfare associations, were responsible for the social good.Footnote34This assumption, along with an underdeveloped entrepreneurial culture, a weakly developed commitment to civil society, ...
Exploration of Typical Cases: The People’s Court Case Database was Officially Online and Accessible to the Society 2024年2月27日,最高人民法院举行人民法院案例库(“案例库”)建设工作新闻发布会。案例库收录了经最高人民法院审核认...
In Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd v Light & Wonder Inc [2024] FCA 439, the applicants sought preliminary discovery pursuant to r 7.23 of the Federal Court Rules 2011 (Cth) on the basis that there were reasonable grounds to believe they could obtain relief for a number of causes ...
Do these rules make sense? Maybe not to you but it does to the architects of what is being called our new normal world. Just take a look at vaccine passports in liberty-loving France, the Taliban recapture of Afghanistan within days without a fight and the mass internment of national popul...
Divine laws according to Antigone stem from our deity or faith, these laws are more unspoken and were not “made now or yesterday. They live for all time” (457). Human laws rely on one’s government, and generally are meant to create order and enforce ethics within a society (as deduc...