Legal Issues on the Owner Unknown Land

The Legal Issues of Electronic Contracts in Australia

The internet has transformed the manner of conducting commercial transactions and has created regulatory gaps. These regulatory gaps may impact the effective development of electronic commerce. Attempts are being made to regulate electronic contracts both at the national and international level. The present research analyses these attempts, in particular the Electronic Transaction Legislation ...

Involuntary circumcision: the legal issues.

Panel on legal issues in genetic testing.

DR. MICHAEL K1TA: Our second panel this morning is on legal issues in genetic testing. Our first speaker is Professor Bartha Knoppers. Dr. Knoppers received her Doctorate from the Sorbonne in Comparative Medical Law and has pursued three main interests: bioethics, genetics, and reproductive technology. She is currently professing to the law faculty of the University de Montreal, but in her spar...

Medico legal issues.

This chapter gives an educational overview of: * An awareness of the legal issues involved in health informatics * The need for the privacy and security of the patient record * The legal consequences of a breach of the security of the patient record * The concept of privacy law and what precautions ought to be taken to minimize legal liability for a breach of privacy and/or confidentiality.

Informed Consent: Legal Issues

We mentioned previously that legal standards for appropriate informed consent disclosure of information often differ from moral standards. In this section we examine legal standards. Unfortunately or not, there are many different legal systems in the United States. Each state has its own set of laws, and in each judges are bound by different precedents. In the United States, as in countries lik...