... categories. Themes were then established based on repeated patterns in the data. The findings presented below reflect the major themes identified by the research team, corroborated by direct quotations from participant interviews. Mistakes appeared to be a sensitive topic for participants. A number...

... or (in this case) inanimate object, whether such suffering be genuine, mistakenly believed, or sincerely hoped for. I label the conception of cruelty in question ‘agent-subjective, possible mistake of fact’, and touch upon some implications of this. cruelty vice virtue ethics mistake of fact motives intention...

... of reasonable reliance. estoppel equity unjust enrichment mistake contract misrepresentation In England, arguments in favour of a unified doctrine of estoppel have been met with caution. A robust statement of this scepticism was expressed by Millett LJ in First National Bank Plc v Thompson...

...” into the processes. Various costs are hidden along the total testing process, and we suggest ways to identify opportunities to reduce cost by improving quality in laboratories and pathology practices through the use of Lean, Six Sigma, and industrial engineering. Appraisal Cost of quality Failure Lean Mistake...

...Nils Jansen; Reinhard Zimmermann Abstract The article examines how the rules on formation of contract and on mistake, contained in the various transnational model rules that have been published over the past two decades, have taken shape. The approach adopted here is based on an analysis...

... show that the error called the month-mistake, whose origin is known and which is one of the few mistakes that can be detected in phenological data because of its large deviation, is best detected by the distribution-free 30-day residual rule in combination with a robust estimation procedure based...

.... In contrast to variation, we define such mistakes or blunders as: (a) the execution of a prohibited action; (b) the failure to perform a required action; or (c) misinterpretation of information essential for the correct execution of a task. In many cases, mistakes are detected...

... relating to the recovery of benefits conferred under the influence of ‘mistakes of law’. In Kleinwort Benson, the House of Lords decided that a bank that had paid money to a local authority in reliance on a ‘settled interpretation of the law’, departed from by a later judicial decision...

...Mistakes refer to the instances wherein our actions become incorrect since our initial perceptions are not in agreement with what has actually occurred in reality. This book attempts to look into the legal issues that are brought about by our various attempts at evading the unpleasant consequences...

...Although there are mistakes that can be perceived as happy, for example one would be happy to experience a mistake such as Columbus' discovery of America, we have to realize that some mistakes are associated with grave and untoward consequences. In some cases, untoward consequences are avoided...

...As sheer ignorance of reality can bring about just as much damage as a flawed perception of reality to the decision making process, misfortunes commonly occur because of ignorance. Thus, this chapter examines whether ignorance could be perceived within the same bounds as a mistake. For both the law...

...Because of ‘Ignorantia juris non excusat’ — one of the maxims that are fondly associated with law and compared with mistakes of fact — mistakes of law are often perceived to be without relevance. While the said maxim is considered by one of the 19th century's prominent critics on criminal law...

... and hamartanein shift in successive lines from the connotation of the voluntary to that of the involuntary.” Hamartia is an unfortunate mistake, a misfortune, closer to suffering-evil than to doing-evil (kakia). Aeschylus Aristotle Classical equivalents of sin and evil Evil Greece...

...A claim to recover money mistakenly paid by the claimant to the defendant is often regarded as the paradigm example of a restitutionary claim founded on the principle of unjust enrichment. Mistake as a ground of restitution is complex for two reasons. First, the law remains unclear about what...

... Project since 1986. Scrutinizing the earlier copy of the inscriptions by means of hand copies, photographs, and special telescopes, the members of the project collected a lot of information about the forms of the hieroglyphs, their arrangement, the ancient mistakes and corrections, as well...

...The Defence of Mistake of Law in International Criminal Law. Antonio Coco, Oxford University Press. © Antonio Coco 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192895745.003.0001 This introductory chapter sets the scope of the book’s inquiry, the reasons for the study of mistake of law, the research...

...The Defence of Mistake of Law in International Criminal Law. Antonio Coco, Oxford University Press. © Antonio Coco 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192895745.003.0003 Several alternatives exist to regulate and/or limit resort to the defence of mistake of law. National systems of criminal...

...The Defence of Mistake of Law in International Criminal Law. Antonio Coco, Oxford University Press. © Antonio Coco 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192895745.003.0006 This short ending summarizes the findings of the whole study and draws conclusions to be used to spark debate and open up...

... of international crimes are all factors that explain, at least in part, this unease. With this monograph, Antonio Coco intends to overcome this discomfort through an in- depth examination of one of the most problematic defences in criminal law, namely mistake of law. The scope of the work is ambitious. In addition...

... mistake and frustration has no role in the law of contract. Relational contracts deal with Knightian uncertainties by agreed contract planning which provides for the adjustment of obligations. This runs into the legal obstacle of the doctrine of the insufficiency of existing obligations. The necessary...