Law

Antitrust and Unfair Trade Practices: The Dynamic Corporate Environment

Introduction Antitrust are laws that are enforced to prohibit anti-competitive and unfair, practices by businesses. The term is driven from word trust meaning group of companies joining up together to divide upmarket and limit competition. But of late the word trust implies the cartels. Examples of this can be the...

Crime and Technology: Collaboration

Introduction ICT is a collective term used to mean the use of both wireless and wired networks to communicate between different media. Signals transmit from a source to a single or multiple user system. It utilizes media such as telephone and computer networks to implement communication. They collect, analyze and...

Criminal Law on the Principle of Men Rea: Self-Defense

Mental Errors that must be Proven The rule of thumb guiding criminal law rests on the principle of men rea, which is ‘an act does not make an individual guilty unless the mind is guilty’. One is guilty of an act if there is evidence of evil mind, criminal purpose...

Laws of Contract: Overview

Introduction The modern developments in business sectors give liberty to individuals to make agreements with other parties they consider beneficial to their business course. Therefore, a contract is an exchange relationship generated through written or oral agreement involving two or more parties, with a given promise. In this case, agreement...

The Affordable Health Care Act of 2010

Introduction American medicine is admired and respected by many in the world. The United States has the best hospitals with well-trained, highly skilled, and innovative doctors. It produces the lion’s share of the most significant advances in biomedical research (Sultz & Young, 2010, p.38). Ironically, the same country “has constructed...

The United States and Michigan State Supreme Courts

Introduction United States Supreme Court according to research is the highest court in America (Greenhouse, 2012). The Supreme Court of the United States of America has the furthest degree of appellate jurisdiction reflecting on all the state courts and federal courts. Its headquarters is based in Washington D.C. with full...

Family Law: Laws Governing Child Protection

Introduction In England, the Department for Children, Schools, and Families (DCSF) has the overall responsibility of child protection. This body is charged with the responsibility of issuing non-statutory and statutory guidelines to local authorities. Unlike the non- statutory guidelines, the statutory guidelines must be strictly adhered to by the local...