The Salomon case
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Droit des affaires
Since the Salomon case, the doctrine of separate corporate personalities constitutes the corner stone of British company law. Thus, a properly incorporated company is considered as having a legal personality of its own and ought to be treated as a legal entity distinct from its...
UK Company Law: Minority Shareholders Protection
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Droit international
Northwest Transportation Company Ltd v Beatty (1887): the case involving ratifying breach of duty regarding self-dealing. The courts held that controlling shareholder-director can vote in favour of ratifying the breach. However, there are two restrictions: (i) directors cannot commit...
International business law - Simulation of a Company selling Cell Phones
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit des affaires
In this assignment, we analyze and try to build some solutions for a typical business law case. In the general context, let us assume we are a 75-person company called "Company" in the fictional French-speaking country of Euphoria, whose capital is Anytown, and which has a legal...
Le droit de la famille collaboratif (Collaborative Law)
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit de la famille
Nouveau mode alternatif de règlement des conflits, le droit de la famille collaboratif (Collaborative Law) se distingue de la médiation et de la négociation classique. Il repose sur un engagement contractuel matérialisé dans une Charte collaborative qui prévoit un engagement irrévocable...
Les dommages-intérêts punitifs dans le droit de la common law
Étude de cas - 13 pages - Droit international
La common law est un système de droit jurisprudentiel, il n'y a donc pas de définition légale des dommages-intérêts. Aucun texte ne définissant ou ne limitant leur rôle et leur mesure, ce devoir n'a été attribué au jury. En effet, dans un ouvrage écrit en 1891, un traité sur « La mesure...
Breach of duty of care/ negligence in tort law: Mr J Madisson in Caparo v Dickman
Commentaire d'arrêt - 4 pages - Droit civil
The tort of negligence is one of the most important fields of tort law in modernized law. When a claimant suffers from an act or an omission on behalf of a third party, innumerable ways and means are proposed to impose liability on the defendant. It is essential and necessary for...
Finnish administrative law: the administrative procedure in Finland from a French perspective
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit administratif
Finland has its own administrative judicial system. After the first decision by an administrative authority, the citizens can appeal to an administrative court system. It is composed of nine provincial administrative authorities, representing the first level of jurisdiction. Then, the top...
European Human Rights Law
Fiche - 3 pages - Droit européen
Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights, imposes a duty on States to protect and respect life, and has put to another level the importance of positive obligations on States. The lawfulness of intentional and unintentional killings as well as the level of effectiveness of the...
Cool Phone's Case Analysis
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit des affaires
This study involves a scenario where you are the vice-president of a 75-person company ("Company") in the fictional French-speaking country of Euphoria, whose capital is Anytown, whose legal system closely resembles that of France's, and which is party to the CISG. The company designs and...
Les options offertes aux créanciers en cas d'inexécution contractuelle
Cours - 7 pages - Droit des obligations
« On doit punir non pour punir mais pour prévenir ». Sénèque, philosophe stoïcien et dramaturge dans l'Antiquité romaine appuie sur l'utilité que doit avoir la sanction. Ceci s'applique assez directement à notre sujet en ce que les options offertes aux créanciers en cas d'inexécution...
Case brief - Karsales Ltd vs Wallis, 1956
Commentaire d'arrêt - 3 pages - Droit des obligations
An individual consumer, Mr Wallis, agreed to buy a car from Mr Stanton, but he had to have credit facilities in order to buy it. Consequently, he concluded an hire-purchase contract with a finance company, called Karsales, who bought the car from Mr Stanton. Before concluding the agreement, Mr...
West Virginia vs. Barnette : the flag salute case
Commentaire d'arrêt - 2 pages - Libertés publiques
Refusal to salute the Flag shall be regarded as an act of insubordination' are the terms in which the Virginia statute let us see a beginning of answer to the questioning about the reasons why the State require a flag salute. Indeed, we understand that the real deal is between the authority...
Cas pratique - le conflit de lois dans le cadre du droit international privé
Cas Pratique - 4 pages - Droit international
M Costa, citoyen de la république d'Uruguay, domicilié en France depuis de nombreuses années, vous soumet une affaire qui le préoccupe. Il y a quelques années, en vacances aux Maldives, il a provoqué un regrettable accident. Alors qu'il conduisait son automobile, tout en bavardant avec sa...
CASE No COMP/M.3099 : Areva / Urenco / ETC JV
Commentaire d'arrêt - 12 pages - Droit européen
The European Commission is vested with a responsibility of assessing compatibility between the markets and the various merging firms. In its decision of 6th October 2004, the Commission has assessed the compatibility with the common market of the concentration of two firms from the nuclear...
Notes on the Carr v Beavan case
Commentaire d'arrêt - 2 pages - Droit de la famille
In this document, we discuss the case of Carr v Beavan. The case was dealt with in the High Court of Justice Chancery Division on 29th October 2008. The judgment was carried out by Mr Justice Floyd. The court had to focus on the testator mental capacity at the relevant time of...
Cas pratique : juge administratif et normes supranationales
Cas Pratique - 8 pages - Droit administratif
L'ordonnance de 2007 n'est pas encore ratifiée par le Parlement. Il s'agit donc d'un AA règlementaire, susceptible de REP : CE, 1961, Fédération nationale de syndicats de police. Le contrôle de la conformité de l'ordonnance de 2007 aux normes internationales soulève la question de l'applicabilité...
Cas pratique sur les conditions générales de vente et la vente à distance
Cas Pratique - 26 pages - Droit des obligations
Sur le site web www.gadgetstoutdesuite.be, Jean lit une fiche décrivant le XYZ32, un téléphone portable « 3,5 G » quatre bandes avec GPS, lecteur MP3, décapsuleur et appareil photo digital. Dans un encadré bien visible figure la mention « super prix ! 499 euros (plus frais de port) ». Il clique...
L'opposition entre culture romano-germaniste et Common Law
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Le droit issu de la culture romano-germaniste est un droit très codifié, c'est le droit civil ou droit continental. Il concerne les pays latins, la langue étant vectrice de droit, on constate de grandes similitudes entre les systèmes juridiques de ces pays. Il est surtout appliqué en Europe...
Assessing the impact of parental marital status in relation to Irish child law: should Constitution be amended?
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Droit des affaires
“It cannot be contested that a person born outside marriage, is a human person, equal to one born within marriage” . In this statement, Justice Walsh points out the differential treatment between marital and non-marital children which is derived from the Irish Constitution. By letting...
United Kingdom Immigration Laws, asylum laws and anti terrorism Laws
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international
In recent years, public attention has been focused on asylum seekers, but their numbers have fallen sharply. They are now less than 40,000 a year of whom only a quarter are given permission to stay in Britain, yet only one in five is actually removed. Meanwhile, other forms of immigration have...
Migration Law - A Human Right to Migration in International Law and European Community Law
Dissertation - 11 pages - Libertés publiques
To answer the question of the existence of the human right to migrate, the notion of migration and human right themselves must first be studied. Migration can be defined as a movement of persons from one country or locality to another one. Only international migrations, from one country to...
Constitutional law applicable in the Anglo-Saxon - parliamentary sovereignty
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
One of the key characteristics of British Constitution is the dominance of the Parliament. The Parliament is the main legislative body in British Constitution. It is bicameral; and is composed of two chambers, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The main functions of the Parliament are...
Contracts and tort law - Causation and loss of chance
Dissertation - 10 pages - Droit des obligations
When it comes to tort or contract litigation in the aim of obtaining damages, the most important aspect to take into account is the issue of causation. Indeed, without proving a causal link between the defendant's action and the claimant's harm, no liability can be held. This rigor is a means of...
Corporate governance under English common law : the respective roles of executive and non executive directors
Dissertation - 15 pages - Droit des affaires
The role of boards and its relationship to management must be clearly identified. The Companies Act provides that companies must have directors but does not define their functions. This is left to the articles of association, where the most undertaken practice consists of vesting the board of all...
European Law - Article 30 of the Treaty of the European Union
Commentaire de texte - 4 pages - Droit européen
Article 230 of the Treaty of European Community is the principal Treaty which can challenge community norms. Four conditions have to be satisfied in order to allow this mechanism. First of all, the act has to be quoted by the article, secondly the institution or person who challenges the act must...
From Russia with Love: Lessons of the Noga arbitration case
Mémoire - 20 pages - Droit international
Globalization is the new buzz word and the lingua franca of international business. With the numerous advantages flowing through globalization, this new process is taking a new shape by getting more critical and unyielding. To elucidate further on its uphill spin, an onlooker can observe its...
European union law
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit autres branches
According to the European Court of Justice, the ability to review the legality of Community Acts is a part of "the complete system of legal remedies and procedures designed to permit the Court of Justice to review the legality of measures adopted by the institutions". Following article 230(2) of...
The protection of women under human rights law, international criminal law and international humanitarian law
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit international
International Women's Day is on the 8th of March. It is a day for women to remember "nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development?. It is also an opportunity to look at the advances made in the protection of women. Women are all different but the group "women" is...
The politics of international Human Rights Law
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international
The point of this essay is the observation of Human rights concerning some currents issues of International relations and social and political disorder; for example, in Tibet where it has been thought that the enforcement of some standards of Human rights would protect the Tibetans from the...
Critically consider Thomas Franck's argument about an emerging right to democratic governance in international law with particular reference to the recent Palestinian elections returning a Hamas governing authority
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit constitutionnel
“Democratic tradition involves a richly evolving collection of diverse beliefs, processes and structures that are neither easily characterized in concise terms nor summarized in a single systematic philosophy of governance” . The complexity of democratic governance could not be better...
