"Governments have passed consumer protection legislation because they believe that the common law of contracts cannot adequately protect the consumer in today's complex market place." ... Examples of the government introducing legislation as a means of providing greater protection to consumers than common law are: The Trade and Practices Act 1974(Cth); and The Sale of Goods Act 1895(Qld). ... These laws are found with in the legislation of the Trade and Practices Act 1974(Cth), the Fair Trading Act 1989(Qld), the Sales of Goods Act 1896(Qld) and the Hire Purchase Act 1959(Qld). ....

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Benefits of ecological approach More than 25 years after it was passed, the Clean Water Act still challenges us to answer critical questions about the physical, chemical, and biological state of the nation's waters. ... Biological indicators and data are the hub for: • setting protection or restoration goals; • determining what to monitor and how to interpret what is found; • prioritizing stressors and choosing control measures; • and assessing and reporting the effectiveness of management actions. ... Environmental Protection Agency has endorsed biolog...

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For example, some of these laws include: The Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) 2001, The National Protection Act (Cwlth) 2009, Insurance Contracts Act 1984, Superannuation (Resolution of Complaints) Act 1993, Life Insurance Act 1995, Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997, Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act 2010, The Future of Financial Advice Legislation (FoFA), to name a few. The FSRA provides a new regime for the regulation of financial products and services, aimed to enhance consumer protection by adding to financial safety and market integrity. ... The Financial S...

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Section 6 of the Act pertains specifically to labor rights, guaranteeing equal pay to employees on the basis of gender and occupational status. Section 9 of the Act also bars discriminatory employment practices and prohibits unions from barring membership to individuals. Establishing a regulatory framework in Section 15, the Act also establishes the Alberta Human Right Commission, which is provided with authorization to oversee complaints of discrimination and charges of violations of the Act. ... Through this ruling, the Supreme Court utilized the federal framework to broaden the scope of pr...

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Animals, which are more similar to man than different in terms of intelligence and consciousness, deserve the same protections and liberties manifested in some of the most historic and profound legal documents, such as the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the United Nations' Universal Declaration on Rights (1948). ... There are already several laws that prevent animal cruelty and promote animal welfare, such as the Animal Welfare Act of 1966.  In the United States, the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) appears to set certain minimum requirements for the humane treatment of non-human anim...

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Although the purpose of the book was clearly stated, which is to provide a wider picture of reality that is happening in a transgender's workplace and subsequent scrutiny of constitutional legislations pertaining to transgender employment protections, it has its own limitations. ... In rectifying transgender injustice, Transgender Employment Experiences: Gender Perceptions and the Law emphasized civil laws with relevance, like the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), specifically the Rehabilitation Act and Title I, to the stigmatization of transgender people labeling them as "dis...

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Much of this examination has been centered upon whether an individual can assume a certain measure of protection as to their metadata and whether access to said metadata ought to be liable to elevated legal limitations. In this paper, I will contend that on the grounds that metadata observation could be exceedingly intrusive to individual privacy and that since metadata is linked to our lives, the laws that structure the limit between real substance and metadata is lacking to ensure protection. ... Our constitution and particularly the Fourth Amendment's restriction on baseless pursuit an...

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The difference between animal rights and animal welfare is one focus' on whether or not animals "deserve a certain level of protection from pain caused by humans" (Animal Rights). ... Animal rights is based on the idea that animals and people should be equal and Animal Welfare is the idea that animals deserve the same protection people have against maltreatment or abuse. ... Although the animals are ensured protection through a series of laws many people and larger corporations violate these laws and completely bypass the fact that they exist. ... The FSIS makes sure that the r...

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In January 2012, Mauritius enacted the Equal Opportunities Act which provides better protection against all forms of discrimination. The Act aims at eliminating direct or indirect discrimination on the basis of age, caste, creed, ethnic origin, impairment, and marital status, place of origin, political opinion, race, sex or sexual orientation. ... Furthermore, we have many television programmes on human rights launched on to strengthen human right culture to the Mauritians, The Constitution of Mauritius guarantees to all Mauritians the right to equal protection and benefit of the law without d...

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In "Shame," after Lizzie presses charges against the men who gang raped her, the men at the bar collect money for bail, reasoning that, "A few lads just acted as nature intended." This casual dismissal of this sexual assault is similar to the commonly used idiom, "Boys will be boys," revealing how this behaviour has been accepted by society as a standard or instinctive way to act. ... "Shame" uses misé en scene, most predominantly through selection of characters and composition, to reflect how within our society rape is an act of dominance and power allowed by a male...

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Private military and security companies often provide security and protection to humanitarian non governmental organizations in conflict or post-conflict areas where it has become difficult for the population to distinguish one from another. ... " More concretely, the Commission requests the Working Group, among other things, to: Elaborate and present concrete proposals on possible new standards, general guidelines or basic principles encouraging the further protection of human rights, in particular the right of peoples to self-determination, while facing current and emergent threats pos...

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Australia has a number of acts designed with this issue in mind, these include; The "Gene Technology Act 2000", which came into force on 21 June 2001, regulates all dealings with genetically modified organisms in Australia (Aus Dept. environment 2001). With this act, licenses must be issued before there is any 'intentional release' of genetically engineered plants or animals into the environment. The department of the Environment and Heritage also state that there is the "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999". This act basically manages actions that may poten...

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Beneath the introduction is a list of policy advances that the government has made, as well as needed policy changes, such as ending the Racial Profiling Act and implementing the Violence Against Women Act's nondiscrimination provisions.3 The author targets the directed audience by formatting their report in a clear and precise way, which is necessary because, with policy reform, it's important that to be clear with what changes need to be made. ... While laws such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have prohibited se...

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Alcinous' statement clearly depict the god's support of sacrificing mortals, because, as he expresses, those gods went as far as accompanying them in an act of communion, often indicating a significant event in literature just as the sacrifices are substantial in the immortal's eyes. ... It provides them the assurance they need from their god, or any higher power, instilling a connection between the two parties, whether that be protection, incentive with a reward, or simply being allowed to live....

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Liposome will act by keeping the drug, thus greatly reduces exposure of the heart to doxorubicin and thereby its cardiotoxicity. Other examples are the reduction of haemolytic effects of drugs by liposome encapsulation and the protection against local irritation upon intradermal, subcutaneous or intramuscular injection of a tissue-irritating drug (Kadir et al., 1999). ...

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On the 18th February 1910 it was proclaimed a "permanent reserve class A for the protection of flora and fauna" under the Permanent Reserves Act 1899. ... The Environmental Protection Authority concedes that weed or pest invasion is virtually certain, should the plan be approved. ... Gorgon Gas Development will contribute to the ability of future generations to meet their economic and technological needs, the project will provide for Futurity and Environmental Protection. ...

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Risk-based approach helps in strengthening the safeguard and protection of the integrity of organizational management globally by providing government agencies with stronger tools to act against these risks, increase emphasis on risk-based approach, especially identification of preventive measures and supervision and adoption of more flexible sets measures that target the effective use of resources, (Jia, Zhao and Zhang 29-31). ... These can be attained by the adoption of best practices and mechanism through which risk factors are tackled to enhance the effectiveness of the organization. the ...

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No, there must be coercion, a type of system in which it is agreed upon, all along the ticket, that this way of thinking and this 'tragedy of the commons' system must be abolished for the protection of the aggregate. People need to be educated, to understand the facts of the situation at hand, so that they can act accordingly and do their part to prevent a system of corruption and dissonance. ...

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Risk-based approach helps in strengthening the safeguard and protection of the integrity of organizational management globally by providing government agencies with stronger tools to act against these risks, increase emphasis on risk-based approach, especially identification of preventive measures and supervision and adoption of more flexible sets measures that target the effective use of resources, (Jia, Zhao and Zhang 29-31). ... These can be attained by the adoption of best practices and mechanism through which risk factors are tackled to enhance the effectiveness of the organization. the ...

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In the last hundred years, Canada's use of the judiciary branch of government for adjudication has created a means for the protection and sustenance of fundamental rights and freedoms. ... Parliament is also capable of passing detrimental legislature, in which the notwithstanding clause would give them the ability to override the court's recognition that the act is an infringement on basic rights and freedoms. Judicial supremacy in Canada will force all legislation to be in context with the provisions of the Constitution and will provide equal protection for all Canadians. ... ...

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Introduction Terrorism, often specific to the area in which it occurs, is a special domain for the exercise of state sovereignty and, in this context, the comparative study of anti-terrorist legislation is a fruitful line of study. Can we combat a nationalist terrorism whose structures are founded o...

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From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, and this would radicalize Lincoln's idea of a southern conspiracy that threatened the ideas of the Founding Fathers, which gave him a distinct moral conviction and tone to his political argument. ... In his famous Cooper Union speec...

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1. Introduction and Background Several companies are now concentrating on the principles of sustainable development with a changing outlook of the global energy for ensuring the commercial viability and the regulatory agreement. It is vital for the large trans-national companies like Chevron that th...

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" People have to be able to act immediately in a situation where there will be casualties, from not having water supply, electric power, food and possible injuries. ... Glenn Pomeroy, the head of the California Earthquake Authority reported that, "90% of the homes in California have no protection for earthquakes....

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Besides, as D Grannick noted in The European Executive (1962), 'a major feature of Continental business is that all layers of management come primarily from the bourgeoisie, and that they think and act in terms of private property which they themselves own' (p30). ... While the minimum wage today might be argued (rightly) to be insufficient, in 1959, the Terms and Conditions of Employment Act set the minimum wage at a rate which could sustain a family of one working parent and two children without falling below the poverty line (source: National Archives), showing a duty of care a...

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