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Excerpt: Civil law is concerned with the relationship between natural and/or legal persons within a community’s jurisdiction. This means that civil law governs obligations that arise as a result of the existing relationship between two parties. These relationships arise either voluntarily, through contract, or by operation of the common law or statute in the law of tort.

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Excerpt: It is well recognised that a defendant may be excused if he has committed a crime (other than murder, attempted murder or treason) because he was threatened by someone that, if he did not do so, he or another person for whose safety he would reasonably regard himself as responsible would be killed or would suffer serious harm. Where duress is raised, the burden of proof is on the prosecution.

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Excerpt: Another fault of the UK legislation is that it has not specifically stated that the use of Electronic Signatures is akin to use of handwritten signatures, this is of course a feature of the European legislation. Nevertheless, the existence of such an "advanced electronic signature" would likely be given great weight by a court.' 9000 words

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Excerpt: It is submitted at the outset that the free movement of goods and competition law provisions of the Treaty of Rome comprise two of the most important components of the legal mechanism designed to maintain and enhance the Single European Market, which lies at the heart of the socio-economic project of the European Union in the twenty first century.

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Excerpt: 'Mr Witanga has enjoyed model making as a hobby for over thirty years. In March 2004 he was engaged by Hans Christian Anderson Model Making Studio Ltd ("the Studio") to make miniature models for a film. The Studio had a close working relationship with another company "Ugly Duckling Ltd", and it was not unusual for people working for the Studio to work for periods of time on Ugly Duckling Ltd's projects.'

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Excerpt: 'In conclusion it does not seem odd that the claimants are given such extensive rights under the Employment Act 2002 (dispute resolution) Regulations 2004, as after all, part of the rationale of the reforms was to promote an individual rights agenda, and to do this it is of course therefore necessary to extend the rights of individual claimants, and also to develop a procedure which will allow such individual claimants to realize those rights in an easy and practicable way'. 15000 words

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Excerpt: The Social Contract Theory has been espoused by many writers from Plato in Crito to modern day writers such as Ayn Rand and John Rawls. However, for English writers Thomas Hobbes undoubtedly holds a certain status as the paradigm of a social contractarian, his work in Leviathan was described as the ‘greatest, perhaps the sole, masterpiece of political philosophy in the English language’ . Another leading writer was Jean Jacques Rousseau, his fame owing a lot to do with the French Revolution and subsequent events, and it is on these two writers that this work will focus.

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Excerpt: 'This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The detriment that the State would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent'

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Excerpt: 'Sandra is 15yrs old She is pregnant but she has not told her parents and has disguised her pregnancy by wearing baggy clothes. She visits her GP, Dr Turner, for antenatal checks and has told him that under no circumstances should her parents be informed. When she is twenty five weeks pregnant an antenatal test shows that the foetus is suffering from a serious genetic condition. Sandra wishes to have a termination and asks Dr Turner whether she can get an abortion at such a late stage in her pregnancy. Karen had a bad fall several years ago and has suffered intractable back pain ever since.'

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Excerpt: The future for small companies is very much at the centre of the UK Government's agenda however serious thought has to go into the detail of the legal provisions that cover this area otherwise the future of small companies will be impaired, we already lag other countries in start-ups and entrepreneurialism and whilst the law is only a tool that can facilitate these things it is imperative that we have the most logically consistent and socially helpful system possible.' 12000 words

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