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The Historical Background for Mandatory Reporting Laws …

WEBBen Mathews and Donald C. Bross (eds.) Mandatory Reporting Laws and the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and Neglect Child Maltreatment Contemporary Issues in …

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Human Rights Approach to Public Health Policy

WEBChapter 3. Human Rights Approach to Public Health Policy. Daniel Tarantola and Sofia Gruskin. Introduction. The origin and justification for human rights, whether anchored in …

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Right to a Healthy Environment in Human Rights Law

WEB1. Introduction. The human right to a healthy environment is indispensable for leading a life with human dignity. It is a prerequisite for the realization of other human rights. The fact …

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National Health Service provision

WEBIn principle, the NHS is responsible for providing a range of community health care services, to people in care homes and to people in their own homes. In practice, …

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Overview of the US Legal System

WEBChecks and balances: Governmental power is divided between the national government and the states, and between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, to avoid …

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Joint working between local authorities and the NHS

WEB19.2 JOINT WORKING AND THE NHS ACT 2006. Section 75 of the NHS Act 2006 (formerly s.31 of the Health Act 1999) refers specifically to the pooling of budgets and to …

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Negligence: Breach of Duty

WEBA breach of duty simply occurs when the party owing the particular duty falls below the standard of behaviour that is required by the particular duty in question. The judge in the …

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Reproductive Health and the Law

WEBThe concept of reproductive health, modelled on the description of ‘health’ in the WHO Constitution, describes ‘reproductive health’ as: a state of complete physical, mental …

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Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and the Politics of Access to Health …

WEBIntroduction. The UK government has recently consulted on proposals to exclude some ‘overseas visitors’, including asylum seekers, from NHS care. 1 A judicial review took …

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Patient Involvement in Decision-making: The Right to Self …

WEBFigure 2.1 Stages and competences of involving patients in health-care decisions. Source: Elwyn et al. 26 The Basis for Protecting Self-determination. If judicial or legislative …

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Intellectual Property Rights, the Right to Health, and the UDHR: Is

WEBTraditional property theory holds that property is equated with individual possession. However, property represents a relationship between the owner and other individuals …

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Negligence: Causation

WEBIn establishing negligence the courts will measure causation in two different ways: ‘but for’ test. The main test for establishing factual causation in an action for negligence – but for …

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Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

WEBThe primary federal law that provides this protection is the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). 1 Its goal is to assure a safe supply of drinking water. To accomplish this goal, …

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Negligence and Novel Duty Situations

WEBApply the law on each duty to factual situations and reach conclusions as to liability. We have already seen how the tort of negligence is based on the existence first of a duty of …

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Mass Claims and Dormant Swiss Accounts

WEBA. Claims to Dormant Swiss Bank Accounts: Ambiguity in the Scope of Arbitration What is a “non-Swiss” account? In 1997 an independent committee representing both Jewish …

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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)

WEBThe Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) 1 is an old law, first adopted in 1947 and administered originally by the Department of Agriculture. Its original …

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Fifth Amendment: Takings

WEBThe Fifth Amendment prohibits government from taking private property without just compensation. A taking occurs in the plainest sense when government exercises its …

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Subjects of International Law

WEB1. Introduction 1. A subject of international law is an entity possessing international rights and obligations and having the capacity (a) to maintain its rights by bringing international …

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Treaty Obligations and National Law: Emerging Conflicts in

WEBPacta sunt servanda 1. A. Introduction. In determining the effect of treaties, the adage pacta sunt servanda (“agreements are to be kept”) 2 remains a foundation of international law. …

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Trespass to the Person

WEBThe essence of all modern forms of trespass can be found in the old idea that trespass was the appropriate remedy for any direct and forcible injury. As will be seen, trespass to the …

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