breach+of+duty
71Directors' duties — are a series of statutory, common law and equitable obligations owed primarily by members of the board of directors to the corporation that employs them. It is a central part of corporate law and corporate governance. Directors duties are… …
72Foster Bryant Surveying Ltd v. Bryant — [2007] [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2007/200.html EWCA Civ 200] is a recent UK company law case, concerning the fiduciary duty of directors to avoid conflicts of interest. It follows some considerable unrest in the courts about the… …
73Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 — Infobox UK Legislation short title=Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 parliament=Parliament of the United Kingdom long title=An Act to make further provision for securing the health, safety and welfare of persons at work, for protecting… …
74Employment Relations Act 2000 — Infobox NZ Legislation short title=Employment Relations Act long title= No long title introduced by= date passed=2000 royal assent= commencement= October 2 2000 amendments= 2001, 2004 related legislation= Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration… …
75tort — / tȯrt/ n [Anglo French, wrongful or illegal act, from Old French, injury, from Medieval Latin tortum, from Latin, neuter of tortus twisted, from past participle of torquēre to twist]: a wrongful act other than a breach of contract that injures… …
76Delict (Scots law) — Delict in Scots Law is, amongst other things, the responsibility to make reparation caused by breach of a duty of care or, arguably, the duty to refrain from committing such breaches. The equivalent in English law and other common law… …
77Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee — Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee ( [1957] 1 WLR 583) is an English tort law case that lays down the typical rule for assessing the appropriate standard of reasonable care in negligence: the Bolam test . Where the defendant has… …
78Board of directors — For other uses of trustee , trusty , and related terms, see Trustee (disambiguation). Board Room redirects here. For the Board Room member lounge, see Alaska Airlines. trustee in trust redirects here. A board of directors is a body of elected or… …
79negligence — neg·li·gence / ne gli jəns/ n: failure to exercise the degree of care expected of a person of ordinary prudence in like circumstances in protecting others from a foreseeable and unreasonable risk of harm in a particular situation; also: conduct… …
80English tort law — Tort law in England and Wales concerns civil wrongs, as distinguished from criminal wrongs. Some wrongs are the concern of the state, and so the police with aids can enforce the law on the wrongdoers in court in a criminal case. A tort is not… …
