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You and the Law
August 1st 1834: Abolition Without Freedom – 1
Dr. William Para RiviereJuly 29, 2013On 1st August 1833, that is to say, one hundred and eighty years ago, the Parliament of our former colonial master, Great Britain, passed a law abolishing the institution of ...
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You and the Law
Executor v. Administrator
Dr. William Para RiviereJuly 22, 2013An Executor or his female counterpart, an Executrix, obtains the right to distribute the Estate of a deceased person in one of four ways. Firstly, he or she may be ...
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You and the Law
Making Your Last Will and Testament
Dr. William Para RiviereJuly 15, 2013If the property left on your death is to pass to persons for whom you left it in your Last Will and Testament, that is to say, to your beneficiaries, ...
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You and the Law
Title to Land
Dr. William Para RiviereJuly 8, 2013Land is held here in two forms; one is unregistered land and, the other, registered land. Proof of land ownership is found in a title. When a loans officer at ...
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You and the Law
Are You an Employee or a Contractor?
Dr. William Para RiviereJuly 1, 2013Mr. Able signed an agreement with a company named Sweepclean Inc. the terms of which are as follows. Mr. Able is to take care of the yard of the company's ...
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You and the Law
Where is our Ombudsman? - 2
Dr. William Para RiviereJune 24, 2013The powers, immunities and privileges accorded to the Office of the Ombudsman by our Constitution appear on first sight to be enormous. But they are subject to what by any ...
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You and the Law
Where is our Ombudsman? - 1
Dr. William Para RiviereJune 17, 2013In 1978 our Constitution decreed that we should have a Parliamentary Commissioner, also known as an Ombudsman. Section 108(1) provides: "There shall be a Parliamentary Commissioner for Dominica who shall ...
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You and the Law
The C.C.J. v. Our Judiciary – 2
Dr. William Para RiviereMay 27, 2013Quite apart from the matters of the appointment of judges and acting judges, their removal from office and their tenure both substantively and beyond the age of retirement, there are ...
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You and the Law
The C.C.J. v. Our Judiciary - 1
Dr. William Para RiviereMay 20, 2013The architects of the C.C.J. (Caribbean Court of Justice) must have been convinced that the arrangements provided by our Constitution for protecting the independence of the Judiciary are more than ...
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You and the Law
Our Constitution and the Judiciary – 4
Dr. William Para RiviereMay 13, 2013A convincing case can be made that judicial officers and Court officials in O.E.C.S. countries are exposed to the influence of their political directorates, directly and indirectly, by some of ...
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You and the Law
Act of God
Dr. William Para RiviereMay 6, 2013It is a defence to an action for negligence that the damage to the Claimant was caused by an "act of God". It is for the person raising that defence, ...
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You and the Law
Negligence and the Pond Cassé Disaster
Dr. William Para RiviereApril 29, 2013Nationals propagating the position that the State should be held responsible for the recent tragedy that took the lives of two of our national footballers and caused severe injury to ...
