Sample Essay
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Threats from a third party- defense of duress per minas is a factor which has been considered for many years as a law. If a person is forced into committing a criminal act by a third party or having to face threats by the third party, threats which include harm or death and selects the option of committing the crime, he/she is excused for having committed the crime. (more…)
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Introduction
In Canada, gays and lesbians are challenging at present the bar on same-sex marriages. Whether the state or the courts charge to the altar first, it seems same-sex marriage is not far off. If same-sex partners are no longer excluded from marriage, the nature of public policy deliberations in relation to registered partnerships is likely to be considerably altered. In fact, it is reasonable to venture that some of the hostility to registered partnerships will disappear if marriage is opened up to gays and lesbians. Campaigners who insist nothing short of marriage will have achieved want they demand, and social conservatives who oppose broadening access to marriage will not focus on registered partnerships. (more…)
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Introduction
If any of us were to be transported back 500 years to Great Britain, we would no doubt be shocked by the lack of legal protections for ordinary citizens that we take very much for granted today in Canada – and in a number of nations such as the United States and Australia. We now hold it to be an essential hallmark of any civilized nation that, for example, torture cannot be used to extract a confession. (Indeed the United States has recently drawn significant international criticism because the Bush Administration is allowing terrorist suspects to be interrogated in the name of the United States in countries that do allow torture). Among the other protections that are generally considered to be essential by Western governments are a general presumption to life and liberty, freedom of speech and of the press, freedom of religious expression and the right to assemble peacefully and to petition the government. (more…)
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History of American Laws
In the 13th Century, a new document called Magna Carta was written to protect the interests of English nobility. Instead, the document made it clear that no one, not even the king, was above the law. The Magna Carta was the law of the land in England and became the backbone of much of American law. In the 17th century, American colonists adopted several of the Magna Carta‘s ideas into the New World. (more…)
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An important portion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) hold provisions that forbid group health plans and insurers from discriminating against individuals based on health factors. In 1997, the agencies with leading power under HIPAA —the 1RS, and Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services published provisional rules that interpret the HIPAA nondiscrimination provisions and introduce the perception of a “bona fide wellness program” as it relates to the nondiscrimination provisions. In 2001, proposed regulations were issued, providing more thorough guidance on permissible health incentives under bona fide wellness programs. (Hall, 2006) (more…)
Sample Term Paper
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Introduction
All labor relations regimes in Canada share fundamental features protecting the right to organize, to bargain collectively, and to strike. Each jurisdiction has a labor relations board or, in Quebec, the Office of the Labor Commissioner General and the Labor Court, to administer, adjudicates and enforces laws on the rights to organize, to bargain collectively, and to strike Canada’s various labor relations acts or codes recognize free association and collective bargaining as the basis for effective industrial relations and generally guarantee the right to strike to obtain or renew a collective agreement, once detailed procedural requirements are met. (more…)
