Throughout the United States‚ women were minorities in Law Enforcement. Women have been in policing for over 150 years and‚ despite strong resistance by those within the male-dominated field and public opinion‚ have challenged traditional and stereotypical perceptions of “authentic” police officers; women have used their talents and abilities in policing to prove their capacity as viable police officers. For example‚ Alice Stebbin Wells was the first women to be called a policewomen in the Los Angeles
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Bad Law/Lawyers Introduction: Law is a term which does not have a universally accepted definition‚ but one definition is that law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior. What is bad law you may ask? Bad law ties in with quite a few things‚ as a matter of fact it’s a very big subject but I would like to break it down to just a few certain topics. The topics that I would like to discuss are what is and makes a bad lawyer in general
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Kris Vandenberg Business Law Paper December 8th‚ 2011 Dram Shop Act in the United States: Is It Fair? Liquor has been around since the beginning of recorded history‚ possibly before then. It has evolved from drinking “spirits” as they are referred to from Biblical times and used for medicinal purposes to establishments of today distributing and selling them. Liquor stores‚ bars‚ restaurants‚ gas stations‚ sports arenas‚ concert halls‚ and wineries are all places where one can purchase
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is a massive problem that needs to be fixed. In order to solve this problem‚ we as a society must focus on protecting individuals that are susceptible to hate‚ whilst also trying to minimize the hateful activities that occur in our society today. Laws protecting individuality will never completely eradicate true hate for a certain group of people‚ as the only way to perform an act of this measure is to change society as a whole. Ridding society of prejudices and hate is
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registered mortgagee of Bridgman House. The effect of expiry of s 92 Property Law Act. A fixture is anything that was once personal property that has become affixed to the land as to become a part of the land and part of the real property.1 The essential question here is whether it has become so affixed to the land that it is part of the Equity Finance Limited security and has to remain on site with the expiry of s 92 Property Law Act 1952. The starting point is the test set out in Holland v Hodgson (1872)2
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BLO 2205 Corporate Law Assignment Semester 1 2013 INTRODUCTION Under the Corporations Act 20011‚ all the directors and officers must be under Common Law duties and Statutory Law duties to exercise their powers in order to carry on one company. It is essential for officers and directors to impose the legal duties for purposes of minimizing wrongful or illegal behaviors’ risks. Briefly‚ the main fiduciary duties and statutory duties contains duty to act in good faith in the interests
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insisted that his law was in accordance with what the gods wanted. His stubbornness kept him from listening to Haemon‚ even though his son tried to persuade Creon from executing Antigone. Sophocles intentionally has Creon lose everything towards the end of the play to show the consequences of confusing his own law with what the gods would want. In his play Antigone‚ Sophocles shows the danger in being too stubborn and self-reliant a ruler‚ as well as mixing human law with divine law by presenting a
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1. Reflect on Art. II‚ Sec. 2 of the 1987 Phil. Constitution. Are customary laws automatically followed by the Philippines? Explain. (200 words) As stated in Art II‚ Sec. 2 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution “The Philippines renounces war as an instrument of national policy‚ adopts the generally accepted principles of international law as part of the law of the land and adheres to the policy of peace‚ equality‚ justice‚ freedom‚ cooperation‚ and amity with all nations.” a war that is renounced
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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination® CAPE® SPANISH SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May–June 2014 CXC 17/U2/12 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form‚ or by any means electronic‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or publisher. Correspondence related to the syllabus
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LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN Starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler The film‚ Law-abiding Citizen‚ is a prime example of the problems in the justice system in our society. The movie is about a loving husband and father who witnessed the torture and murder of his wife and daughter after two vicious criminals broke into his home. He takes the law into his own hands and systematically avenges his family’s death by taking down the criminals and the people involved in setting one of the killers free‚ one
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