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Topic 4: Carelessly causing harm; Negligence and Negligent Misstatement Commercial Law Overview of this topic: Carelessly causing harm to person or property; Carelessly causing financial harm   ‹#› Learning Outcomes: When will a person be legally responsible for carelessly harming the person or property of another? When will a person be legally responsible for carelessly […]

  Topic 5: Contract law: Forming a Contract Commercial Law ‹#› 1 Overview of this topic: Contracts; Agreement; Intention; Consideration; Note: capacity, legality and consent is covered later ‹#› Learning Outcomes: What is a contract? When does a contractual agreement come into existence? What is an offer? Is an advertisement an offer? What is an

Topic 9: Dealing with Consumers- General Protections Commercial Law ‹#› 1 Overview of this topic: Australian Consumer Legislation Protecting consumers; and Dealing with consumers. ‹#› Learning Outcomes: Why do consumers deserve additional legal protection? When marketing and selling to consumers, what kinds of conduct are prohibited? ‹#› Reading materials Chapter 11 (pages 343-361) of Nickolas

Topic 7: Contract Law: Capacity, Legality, Consent Commercial Law ‹#› 1 Overview of this topic: Formalities; Capacities to contract; Illegality; Privity Of Contract; Unenforceable contracts: lack of consent ‹#› Learning Outcomes: Do contracts always have to be in writing and signed? Can a child form a contract? What about someone who is intellectually disabled, mentally

Keywords: Crime news, data analytics, OLAP, text mining, data warehouse Introduction Crime can reflect the social problems and should be prevented or decreased for the good of living of people and tourists in the areas. Typically, crime information is daily presented on the website and read by millions of audience worldwide. Unfortunately, this information is

Topic 6: Contract Law: Terms of a Contract and Non-contractual Representations Commercial Law Overview of this topic: Express terms Representations and promises Terms implied by the court Implied Terms and Statutory terms Unenforceable terms ‹#› Learning Outcomes: What is a ‘term of the contract’? What is the effect of a term being included in a

The Future of Restorative Justice In the near future, the number of cases directed to neighborhood justice centers and victim–offender reconciliation programs will grow because there is a movement toward informality throughout the criminal justice system. In practice, informality is marked by a preference for unwritten, flexible, commonsense, discretionary procedures tailored to fit particular cases.

Pros and Cons from the Victim’s Point of View A father is brutally murdered. After 20 years his killer comes up for parole. The victim’s family is consumed by intense feelings of anger, vulnerability, and insecurity. They avail themselves of their right to address the parole board, and the convict is not released. But a

The Peacemaking Process: How Reconciliation Programs Work Restorative justice projects are experimenting with four different approaches (see Dzur, 2011; and Armour, 2012). The most numerous is victim– offender mediation. Both parties engage in a structured dialogue that is facilitated by a trained mediator. This intermediary is more often a trained V I C T IMS

A Brief History of Restorative Justice Restorative justice embraces themes important to the victims’ rights movement, especially notifica- tion, empowerment, direct involvement, offender accountability, and receiving restitution. This emerging challenge to the prevailing punitive par- adigm incorporates some traditions that helped blunt crime’s negative repercussions centuries ago, before the state asserted its authority to dom-