Professional Malpractice in UK Law
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Asset Protection Trusts and Gibraltar's Legislation
‘Asset Protection’ can be defined as the process of organising one's assets and affairs in advance, so as to best guard them in the future against future financial loss. ‘Asset Protection Trusts’ a...... ... United States in obtaining affordable pro-fessional liability/malpractice cover. Gibraltar has passed legislation by way of amendments to its ... and satisfaction of a judgment rendered against the professional in his home country. While the mere existence of an asset protection trust ... ...
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Who Supports Professional Certification? Insights from Employment Arbitration
Professional certification programmes became commonplace across the occupational structure in recent years, with many emerging and established professions opting to create their own certification p...... ... established professions opting to create their o wn certification programmes for r easons ranging from collective marketing to r educing malpractice litigation risk. Theories of social closure suggest that adv antaged and established individual practitioners might want to use certification as a ... ...
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Bo CARLSSON, ÅKE ISACSSON AND BARBRO SJÖBECK, Obstacles that Prevent Legal Programmes from Functioning as a Learning Process: The Example of Malpractice Claims in the Swedish Health-Care System
... ... is to shed light on different obstacles (that is the defects in the judicial process, the inertia of custom and the professional culture of organization) in the process of dealing with malpractice claims, and in the coupling of the decisions to the actual ... ...
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RAIMONDO CATANZARO, Violent Social Regulation: Organized Crime in the Italian South
... ... the patients’ position by setting communicationabout malpractice claims in motion. The question is whether procedural rationalityinstalls a ... in the judicial process, the inertia of custom and the professional cultureof organization) in the process of dealing with malpractice claims, ... ...
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Book Reviews
... ... The book is, however, essential reading for academic and professional staff new to this area who want to know about the ‘evidence’ behind ... In stating that “Professional malpractice, ... Book Reviews ... corporate malfeasance, terrorism, fraud, ... ...
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Medical Negligence and the Nigerian National Health Insurance Scheme: Civil Liability, No-Fault or a Hybrid Model?
... ... provides the bottom line: minimum standard of acceptable professional conduct. In practice, medical negligence is a failure to live up to proper ... and the United States, where there have been reports of a ‘malpractice crisis’, 2 2 Jones, Medical Negligence , ibid , at p. 8. there are no ... ...
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Unreliable Confessions and Miscarriages of Justice in Britain
Miscarriages of justice are sometimes caused by confessions, which are coerced by the police or result from suspects' psychological vulnerabilities during custody and interrogation. In recent years...... ... police impropriety or malpractice (right col- ... implications for how expert psychological ... and compliance, which were important. In ... professional malpractice ... the case of Ward it was a diagnosis of ... Police ... ...
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KIRSTEN SCHEIWE, EC Law's Unequal Treatment of the Family: The Case Law of the European Court ofjustice on Rules Prohibiting Discrimination on Grounds of Sex and Nationality
... ... from Functioning as a Learning Process: The Example of Malpractice Claims in the Swedish Health-Care System The patient has no ... the judicial process, the inertia of custom and the professional culture of organization) in the process of dealing with ... ...
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Teaching library and information ethics
Professionalism in library and information work assumes the awareness and application of ethical standards. Dealing with information products and services implicates practitioners in ethical as wel...... ... asthey apply to particular work situations, suchas what the professional manager should dowhen faced by certain dilemmas. The processof change is ... -cal dilemmas in stock selection and userservices, professional malpractice and patronconfidentiality, and specialized challenges inhealth and law ... ...
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High ethical standards are not an optional extra: they are fundamental to our professional status.
... ... a free helpline for ethical conflicts and a free whistle-blowing advice line for potential public-interest disclosure concerning serious malpractice at work. If additional advice is required, we offer a low-cost professional legal advice telephone service ... Our members and students should be ... ...
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