25. Capacity and parties
Christian Witting
in Street on Torts (15th edn)
This chapter examines the issues of capacity and parties in tort law. It explains that capacity refers to the status of legal persons and their ability to sue or be sued in tort and that a ...
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4. Consent to Treatment
Jonathan Herring
in Medical Law and Ethics (8th edn)
This chapter examines the legal and ethical aspects of treating a patient without consent. It considers the meaning of ‘consent’ and the position of patients who lack the capacity to ...
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5. Incapacity I: Adults
Emily Jackson
in Medical Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (5th edn)
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. This ...
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5. Consent II: Capacity and Voluntariness
Emily Jackson
in Medical Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (4th edn)
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. This ...
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4. Consent to Treatment
Jonathan Herring
in Medical Law and Ethics (7th edn)
This chapter examines the legal and ethical aspects of treating a patient without consent. It considers the meaning of ‘consent’ and the position of patients who lack the capacity to ...
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21. Capacity
Paul S. Davies
in JC Smith's The Law of Contract (2nd edn)
This chapter discusses the issue of capacity. The general rule is that contracts are valid but unenforceable on minors (persons under 18 years of age). However, they are enforceable against ...
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Bratty v Attorney-General for Northern Ireland [1963] AC 386, House of Lords
Jonathan Herring
in Essential Cases: Criminal Law (4th edn)
Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Bratty v ...
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3. The constitution of the company
Lee Roach
in Company Law Concentrate: Law Revision and Study Guide (5th edn)
Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are ...
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3. Corporate Activity and Legal Liability
Sarah Worthington
in Sealy & Worthington's Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (11th edn)
This chapter discusses how the company acts as a legal person. It covers: contractual liability; corporate capacity; agency and authority in corporate contracting; contracts and the ...
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Bratty v Attorney-General for Northern Ireland [1963] AC 386, House of Lords
Jonathan Herring
in Essential Cases: Criminal Law (2nd edn)
Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Bratty v ...
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Bratty v Attorney-General for Northern Ireland [1963] AC 386, House of Lords
Jonathan Herring
in Essential Cases: Criminal Law (3rd edn)
Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Bratty v ...
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3. The constitution of the company
Lee Roach
in Company Law Concentrate: Law Revision and Study Guide (6th edn)
Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are ...
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4. Crimes of negligence
David Ormerod and Karl Laird
in Smith, Hogan, & Ormerod's Criminal Law (15th edn)
Negligence refers to conduct that does not conform to what would be expected of a reasonable person. Along with intention and recklessness, negligence involves a failure to comply with an ...
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3. Consent
Jo Samanta and Ash Samanta
in Medical Law Concentrate: Law Revision and Study Guide (3rd edn)
Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are ...
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Making a Will: Capacity and Intention
Brian Sloan
in Borkowski's Law of Succession (4th edn)
This chapter discusses the capacity and intention required to make a valid will. To have capacity means that a person is legally competent to make a will. To be competent, the testator must ...
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6. Criminal capacity, mens rea, and fault
Jeremy Horder
in Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law (9th edn)
This chapter deals first with another fundamental requirement of a crime: criminal capacity. It is a precondition of criminal liability that the defendant is a person with sufficient ...
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Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law (9th edn)
Jeremy Horder
Principles of Criminal Law takes a distinctly different approach to the study of criminal law, whilst still covering all of the vital topics found on criminal law courses. ...
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5. Deprivation of Liberty under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland
in Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice (4th edn)
This chapter discusses amendments to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA 2005), introduced in the Mental Health Act 2007, which are generally known as the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS). ...
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4. The creation of the agency relationship
Eric Baskind, Greg Osborne, and Lee Roach
in Commercial Law (3rd edn)
This chapter considers the various methods by which a relationship of agency can be created, namely, by agreement, by ratification, by operation of law (including agency by necessity), and ...
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5. Abortion and prenatal harm
Jo Samanta and Ash Samanta
in Medical Law Concentrate: Law Revision and Study Guide (3rd edn)
Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are ...
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