TO: Isotola‚ Sui & Alberto FROM: Tom Caulton RE: Possible Action for Damages Isotola‚ Sui and Alberto (the plaintiffs) are interested to see what damages they can recover if they succeeded in negligence against the Dunedin City Council (DCC). Does the defendant (Dunedin City Council) owe a duty of care to the particular plaintiffs in the circumstances? Prior cases really only dealt with the ‘builders’ being responsible for the defect in the construction of a particular structure. In recent
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physical damage caused by each earthquake. Answer: The physical damage done by the san Francisco earthquake was that there was 225‚000 people homeless and 28‚000 buildings destroyed. The physical damage in Haiti was that there was no food or clean water or no electricity. 5. Why did the earthquake in Haiti cause more monetary damage than the earthquake in San Francisco if the earthquake in Haiti was of lower magnitude? Answer: The earthquake in Haiti caused more monetary damage than the
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February 7‚ 2012 TAX FILE MEMORANDUM TO: Professor FROM: Student SUBJECT: Murray Taxpayer Issues Regarding Damage Award Facts: Murray Taxpayer was previously employed by a company who was illegally dumping chemicals into a river. Murray had knowledge concerning these illegal activities of his employer and made an ethical decision to report this to the Environmental Protection Agency. Upon inspection‚ the Environmental Protection Agency determined that Murrays employer was in fact illegally
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Seminar 9 – Remedies for Breach of Contract Reading: George Shenoy and Loo Wee Ling (eds)‚ Principles of Singapore Business Law (“PSBL”)‚ (Cengage 2013)‚ Chapter 18. We will concentrate in class mainly on Damages. Note that PSBL chapter 18 addresses the topics in a different order from this Outline; we will in general follow the order of the Outline Note: References below to Poole are to Jill Poole‚ Casebook on Contract Law (10th ed‚ 2010)‚ which is available at Course Reserve in the
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life‚ natural capital‚ inefficiencies in the use of resources). More information is available here (doc. 2 – PDF‚ French). B. Appraise damages‚ inefficiencies and remediations quantitatively The MESO methodology lies on the monetary evaluation of costs of environmental damages and inefficiencies. Also‚ costs of remediation are assessed. The cost of environmental damages is a loss of well-being or economic value due to environmental degradation undergone by the society. It could be a loss of well-being
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Tort-Salmond- it is a civil wrong for which the remedy is a common law action for unliquidated damages and which is not exclusively the breach of a contract or a breach of a trust or other merely equitable obligations. Winfield- tortious liability arises from the breach of a duty primarily fixed by the law; this duty is towards persons generally and its breach is repressible by an action for unliquidated damages. Analysis of definitions • • • Tort is a civil Wong. Every civil wrong is not a
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example‚ Hurricane Katrina was a powerful hurricane that caused several damages in New Orleans. The effects of Hurricane Katrina were property damages‚ displaced people‚ and lost of people’s lives. One of the Hurricane Katrina effects was property damages. Hurricane Katrina was a category 3 but when it touched down it turned into a category 5. It meant that the Hurricane was powerful and we had to expect a lot of damages. According to the article‚ more than $80 billion have been spent for
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escaped. Applying the Rule in Rylands‚ it might be argued that Aimee may only make a claim for the damages to the property that is the rose and the use of the garden and she would be likely successful in bringing a claim for personal injury here as she developed allergy from the emission of dust from the factory. David’s son‚ Wally may only sue Harrington & Nephew Ltd for a tort in negligence for the damage caused to the paints by chemical emitted from the factory. The next step is to consider any defences
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Theory to Practice Ashley Lorenc LAW/421: CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS LAW Due: 6/16/14 Instructor: Kathryn Harris Theory to Practice The two parties involved never had a valid written contract. In the scenario‚ the parties negotiated for a period of 90 days and 3 days before the deadline set in the original negotiation contract they reached a verbal distribution agreement. In the original negotiation contract‚ it states that there would be no distribution contract unless
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BUS201 Contract and Agency Law Group Based Case Study Bai Kailin Q0806156 Question 1 A tender is also considered as an offer. Tenders refers to a process by which one can seek prices and terms for a particular project (such as a construction job in this case) to be carried out under a contract. The sealed offers themselves‚ including company information‚ a project outline‚ and a price quote‚ are known as tenders or bids. Since Beng Huay Construction Pte Ltd submitted the most competitive
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