Month: November 2022

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The Lancet Commission on Law and Global Health at the O`Neill Institute and Georgetown University articulates the critical role of law – through legal instruments, legal capacity and institutional reform, and the rule of law – in achieving equitable global health. Our report is structured around four “legal determinants of health,” each of which[...]

Health law provides rights and protections that make coverage more equitable and understandable. Some rights and protections apply to the health insurance market or other individual insurance plans, some to work-based plans and others to comprehensive health insurance. The protections described below may not apply to protected health plans. In fact, and according to[...]

(b) Even if a client-lawyer relationship is not established, a solicitor who has received information from a prospective client may not use or disclose that information unless permitted by Rule 1.9 in respect of information provided by a former client. (ii) the potential customer is promptly informed in writing. The second obligation is a[...]

Double everything. 2. It is generally applied to agreements, letters, receipts and the like when two originals are made by one of them. Each copy has the same effect. The term duplicate refers to a document that is essentially identical to another instrument. 7 men. & Gr. 93. In English law, it also refers[...]

As part of the process of determining which asset needs to be replaced and what the value of the asset is, companies use a process called NPV. To make a decision about an expensive asset purchase, companies first opt for a discount rate, which is an assumption about a minimum return on each business[...]

A Line of Control (LoC) refers to a militarized buffer border between two or more countries that has not yet reached permanent border status. The LoC borders are generally under military control and are not recognized as an official international border. Officially known as the Armistice Line, a Line of Control was created with[...]

Honesty and truthfulness are specific components of several other rules – Rule 1.15 “Custody of property”; Rule 3.1 “Substantiated claims and allegations”; Rule 3.6 (a) Publicity of trials; Article 6.2 “Acceptance of appointments”; Rule 7.2 (c) – Communications concerning the services of counsel: special provisions”; Rule 8.1, “Admission to Bar and Disciplinary Matters”; and[...]

But who is there who can endure such a total disguise as the filth and mess spread over a woman? A false habit; A dress designed to hide the person wearing it. Webster.Anything worn on the person with the intention of changing the appearance of the wearer so that he is not recognized by[...]

A third type of hate crime law simply requires the collection of statistics. At the federal level, the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990 (Pub. L. No. 101-275, 104 Stat. 140 [28 U.S.C.A. § 534 (1990)]) requires the Department of Justice to collect statistics on crimes that reveal the existence of bias. Data must[...]