Essays about: "civil liability"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words civil liability.
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1. Getting hard to resist: Prospect of mandatory human rights due diligence in Ukraine
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : The 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) introduced human rights due diligence (HRDD) as a societal expectation to businesses to implement a new kind of due diligence risk management process to ‘know and show’ they respect human rights. Ten years later, mandatory human rights due diligence (mHRDD) legislation imposing a legal duty to carry out HRDD has become mainstream across Europe. READ MORE
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2. The potential civil liability of innocent subsidiaries as a consequence of the notion of undertaking in EU Competition Law - an implication from the recent case Skanska
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : In EU Competition Law, the addressee of the prohibition indicated in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) is the undertaking. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has applied the notion of undertaking using an economic and functional approach, determining that undertaking, as a single economic entity, may consist with several separate legal entities, including natural and legal persons. READ MORE
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3. Bridging the Accountability Gap - A study of the civil liability of parent companies for business-related human rights abuse in Sweden, France and the United Kingdom
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : The lack of accountability for human rights violations arising out of the activities of multinational enterprises has been identified as a key impediment to the fulfillment of universal human rights and the corresponding access to remedy for victims. However, the last couple of years have witnessed an increasing movement to bridge the accountability gap on the national and international level. READ MORE
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4. Treatment of liability, economic losses and environmental damage of ship source oil pollution
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : When the Torrey Canyon ran aground in 1967, there was no international regime covering liability for oil pollution damage. This changed with the adoption of the 1969 Civil Liability Convention for Oil Pollution (CLC) and the 1971 International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage (Fund Convention). READ MORE
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5. Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims: Multiple Perspectives and Legal Implications
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The thesis is an attempt to analyse the concept of limitation of liability for maritime claims with multiple legal and policy perspectives. In trying to analyse the issues related to limitation of liability, the thesis explores the historical background to the development of the concept of limitation of liability within both civil and common law. READ MORE
